Greetings from Archean Chemicals Industries Ltd!!
We are looking for Industry Manager to join our company.
Department - Sales & Marketing
Designation - Industry Manager
Job Level - Mid-Level
Experience Required - 10+ Years
Location - Hyderabad/Jhagadia - Gujarat
Reporting To - Head Sales & Marketing
Employment Type - Full-Time
2. Job Purpose To drive direct sales of specialty molecules to pharma and agro customers through technical selling, customer qualification and long-term supply agreements. The Industry Manager delivers revenue and margin targets and feeds market insight into new product development, building a high-value specialty customer base.
3. Key Job Responsibilities
- Market mapping: Build a list of target pharma and agro accounts, ranked by how well Acumes molecules fit their needs, their volume potential and how easy they are to win.
- Relationship building: Build relationships across each customers procurement, R&D; and QA teams to become an approved, preferred supplier.
- Technical selling: Understand how each customer uses the product and what specifications it needs, then position Acume on purity, impurity profile and reliability of supply.
- Qualification management: Drive the cycle from sample to trial to audit to approved-vendor status, coordinating with Acumes R&D; and QA teams.
- Pricing and negotiation: Set prices based on value to the customer, prepare quotations and close supply agreements.
- Demand forecasting: Capture customer volume forecasts and pass them to production and procurement for planning.
- New-molecule input: Collect customer requests for molecules Acume does not yet make and feed them to NPD stage gate process for the pipeline expansion.
- Account management: Make sure orders are delivered,
payments collected and complaints resolved for every assigned account.
- Market intelligence: Track competitor pricing (including Chinese imports), customer capacity expansions and regulatory trends.
- Business plan ownership: Own the segments annual targets for revenue, margin and new customers, and build account plans to meet them.
4. Educational Qualification & Experience
- Educational Qualification: Degree in Engineering preferably Chemical Engineering; MSC (chemistry) + MBA
- Relevant Experience: 5+ years in the pharmaceutical sector with techno-commercial experience in specialty intermediates, API or agro intermediates.
- Exports experience in handling the key accounts of pharma/agro
- Hands-on experience in business development or technical sales of chemical intermediates.
- Experience in managing the customer qualification process from sample through audit to approval
5. Required Skills & Competencies A. Technical & Functional Skills
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical and agrochemical customer requirements and applications.
- Understanding of the customer qualification process sample, CoA, audit and approval.
- Understanding of export sales procedures and documentation.
- Basic knowledge of hazardous chemical handling and safety requirements.
- Proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint and preparation of MIS reports.
B. Commercial Skills
- Application-led selling and technical solution positioning.
- Commercial negotiation and customer relationship management.
- Demand, specification and price capture from customers.
- Market analysis, competitor tracking and go-to-market strategy.
- Business development and pipeline management.
C. Behavioral Competencies
- Proactive, self-motivated and result-oriented approach.
- Robust written and verbal communication skills.
- Good interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Strong ownership, initiative and execution capabilities.
6. Language Proficiency
- Mandatory Languages: English and Hindi.
- Required Proficiency: Good written and verbal communication skills in both languages.
7. Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) Performance will be evaluated against agreed business and functional objectives, including:
- New customer acquisition in pharmaceutical and agrochemical segments.
- Number of molecules progressed from customer enquiry to commercial supply.
- Achievement of sales and margin targets for the pharma and agro segments.
- Time from first contact to qualified opportunity.
- Conversion of samples and customer trials into approved supplier status.
- Timely and accurate MIS reporting on pipeline and customer development.
8. Job Interfaces
- Internal Stakeholders: R&D;, Process, Production, QA-QC, Logistics, Finance and Management.
- External Stakeholders: Pharmaceutical and agrochemical customers, technology partners, distributors and industry bodies.
Interested candidates with relevant experience can share your profiles to
[email protected]
Regards
Uma Paul
📌 Industry Manager (Bharuch)
🏢 Archean Chemical Industries
📍 Bharuch