Customer Solution Manager
Shanghai, CN
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a Customer Solution Manager driving and identifying business growth opportunities to facilitate business development of products in Korea nuclear market
- Collaborate with Account Teams, the Product Managers (PdM) to capture and deliver products and services to customers.
- Develop competitor intelligence, and work with PdM to develop solutions to beat the competition.
- Understand plant operating conditions, analyze needs and develop unique customer solutions to address customers issues and long-term viability.
- Identify unmet customer needs through appropriate market channels especially direct customer interaction.
- Introduce new products and/or existing products to new/or existing customers/markets.
- Work with customer-facing organizations, build customer relationships, integrate competitive and market intelligence to proactively develop solutions with strong customer value propositions.
- Develop business cases to justify investments to meet market needs while building and maintaining long term, strategic relationships with customers.
- Lead technical meetings (study meetings, Operational Experience, etc.) with the Customers
- Lead/Support Business Development initiatives in Korea by coordinating PdM and local Account Teams to develop solutions/services which properly align to Korean Customers.
- Support Project Managers on project executions and customer interface
Education Level: A bachelor's degree in an engineering and/or technical discipline is required.
Years of Experience: Typically, 10 or more years
Professional Certifications: Professional Engineer (P.E.), or China/Japan/Korea equivalent, is recommended, but not required
Skills and Competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering or related field.
- Minimum 5-10 years of technical leadership experience in Engineering disciplines in nuclear
- Good understanding of nuclear industry, policy and customers
- Strong organization and communication skills and a proven history of managing and effectively leading multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural teams and interfacing with multiple functional groups.
- Demonstrated successful solutions development skills in effectively planning, estimating and executing significantly complex projects/programs, including complex contract negotiations with clients.
- Ability to build consultative relationships with customer, operations, maintenance and engineering decision-makers to enhance Westinghouse’s position as premier value-added supplier.
- Market development experience
- Power plant operations and/or maintenance experience (desirable).
- Practical knowledge of local regulatory and applicable national / international standards applicable to delivery of Products and Services in Korea.
- Demonstrated business skills, including consideration of financial impact when making decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to oversee project activities and opportunity management, conveying feedback on customer satisfaction, needs and opportunities.
- Persuasive ability to get customers to cooperate, grant approval or take action.
- Consistent demonstration of driving for results.
- Willingness and ability to travel for customer meetings, walk-downs, outages, vendor meetings, industry conferences, etc. as required.
- Mastery of the office productivity tools including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, D365, Power BI, Tableau, SAP, OneNote, and Outlook.
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