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Johnson Controls Director- Sales Operations Asia Pacific in Singapore, Singapore
Who we are
Johnson Controls is the global leader for smart, healthy and sustainable buildings. At Johnson Controls, we’ve been making buildings smarter since 1885, and our capabilities, depth of innovation experience, and global reach have been growing ever since. Today, we offer the world’s largest portfolio of building products, technologies, software, and services; we put that portfolio to work to transform the environments where people live, work, learn and play.
This is where Johnson Controls comes in, helping drive the outcomes that matter most. Through a full range of systems and digital solutions, we make your buildings smarter. A smarter building is safer, more comfortable, more efficient, and, ultimately, more sustainable. Most important, smarter buildings let you focus more intensely on your unique mission. Better for your people. Better for your bottom line. Better for the planet. We’re helping to create a healthy planet with solutions that decrease energy use, reduce waste and make carbon neutrality a reality. Sustainability is a top priority for our company.
We committed to invest 75 percent of new product development R&D in climate-related innovation to develop sustainable products and services. We take sustainability seriously. Achieving net zero carbon emissions before 2040 is just one of our commitments to making the world a better place.
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The Role:
The Sales Operations Director leads the planning, deployment and execution of commercial excellence programs across the region, focused on driving sales productivity and secured order growth. Working in a matrixed organization the successful candidate will report into the global commercial operations function, at the same time working in close partnership with the sales leadership organization to align on priorities and together build strong commercial fundamentals.
Whilst the role is primarily focused on driving execution within our Asia Pacific field businesses you will be part of a newly constructed global team, and therefore the expectation is the successful candidate will actively participate in the drive to create global standards, and support initiatives spanning multiple businesses.
Within role, you will directly lead the region sales operations team, consisting of two primary roles (see over for details):
Process & applications – subject matter experts for applications, tools and processes forming the commercial ecosystem. Leads continuous improvements, user experience and governance.
Business partners – partners for commercial leaders, enabling success via driving projects and activities such as quota design, coverage planning and lead to book execution.
Critical for success is the ability to build effective working partnerships across business and function, creating demonstrable value for the enterprise. It is therefore imperative the successful candidate can orchestrate resources via indirect and direct leadership to execute work effectively, across functional partners such as IT, finance, field operations, learning & development, and our sales/marketing community.
The role requires strong analytical skills to interpret real time data and work with sales leaders to identify improvements through the complete sales process (including but not limited to lead, account, line of business, opportunity and pipeline management). In conjunction with driving productivity and excellence programs the successful candidate will lead:
Continuous improvement of our core commercial cadences, driving working standards and best practices across content, tools, data, process, and enablement (at all levels of our commercial organization)
Technology and process improvements to refine and simplify the ecosystem in which sales professionals win; particularly leveraging salesforce.com as the core CRM application, but expanding into areas such as sales coaching, configure – price – quote (CPQ) and marketing automation
Commercial planning process including sales quota design, capacity and productivity planning, performance and KPI tracking
Provision of standard work and insights for commercial reviews, and business planning discussions
How you will do it:
Collaborate with business and sales leaders to develop long term growth strategies and aligned execution, create trusted and valued partnership with all teams
Champion our commercial user community through commercial programs, and ensure we prioritise accordingly
Effectively lead your direct team and create and environment of trust, innovation, and excellence
Leverage data effectively and early to inform decision making and priority setting
Engage with functional partners as a commercial SME to ensure continuous development to our ecosystem & take information to proactively improve our execution (for example - market data, new product introductions, new marketing campaigns)
Lead areas of discussion in local, regional, and business level commercial in areas such as pipeline health, forecast accuracy, sales productivity with data-based recommendations for improvement
Continually perform business evaluations to identify future opportunities for improvement and barriers to achieving strategic growth and financial objectives.
Lead coaching and support for growth initiative owners
Drive consistent focus and improvement actions to continually mature strong execution of sales fundamentals within a strategy to enhance the ecosystem within which we work
What's needed to succeed?
Bachelor’s degree in related subject with minimum 10 years of demonstrable business experience in senior commercial roles/functions
Specific experience managing or matrix direction to a distributed sales organization in a multi-line business
Ability to succinctly clarify, explain and sell concepts and initiatives to broad groups of professionals.
Knowledge of customer and competitive programs, and the ability to develop effective programs understanding the trends and issues facing commercial teams in the digital age
Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills and presents convincingly to peers, executives, partners, and customers
Exceptional enterprise leadership skills in a dynamic and fast growing organization
Strong knowledge of CRM and associated technologies
Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of employees/management and experience in a cross-functional matrix reporting structure
Diversity & Inclusion Our dedication to diversity and inclusion starts with our values. We lead with integrity and purpose, focusing on the future and aligning with our customers’ vision for success. Our High-Performance Culture ensures that we have the best talent that is highly engaged and eager to innovate. Our D&I mission elevates each employee’s responsibility to contribute to our culture. It’s through these contributions that we’ll drive the mindsets and behaviors we need to power our customers’ missions. You have the power. You have the voice. You have the culture in your hands.