This Bilingual Special Projects Position Features:
Summary: Reporting to the Sales and Marketing Manager, regularly directly supervise between 5 to 10 employees,
including sales employees, and sales administration employees, and spends more than fifty (50%) percent of their work time
performing exempt related job duties using independent judgment and discretion and has the authority to recommend
hiring, discipline and terminate of employees effectively.
Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Reporting to the Sales and Marketing Manager, regularly directly supervises 5 to 10 employees, including sales
employees and sales administration employees, and spends more than fifty (50%) percent of their work time
performing exempt related job duties using independent judgment and discretion.
• Participating in the hiring process
• Effectively recommending to the Sales and Marketing Manager the hiring, discipline, and termination of employees.
• Understand and manage the sales KGI and KPI to meet the company sales goals and drive revenue growth based
on the company business plan.
• Oversees the sales function for HQ, Domestics, export, and special sales.
• Oversees the sales admin operations, managing purchase and product inventory, collecting receivables,
communication, client management, and sales analysis and reporting.
• Report to the manager on the current sales/market and department situation.
• Contribute to product development for new product lines and existing product modification/improvement.
• Forecast sales plans and achieve the goals.
• Check and allocate inventories.
• Forecast and supervise department budget and expenses.
• Ability to oversee special functions, such as marketing events, shows, demonstrations, and network events.
• (Domestic sales assistant manager): Request the imported products to the purchaser for your divisions.
• Communicate with the manager to improve employee behavior and motivation and initiate staff development
objectives.
• Provide motivation, support, and guidance to all subordinate sales representatives and sales administration
employees.
• Experiment with a variety of acquisition channels such as event management, website, social media, and
advertising.
• Additional duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Bilingual in English and Japanese is required. Ability to speak, read, and write in both languages.
• Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent industry experience.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the food industry.
• Excellent communication skills with various levels of staff and departments
• Strong leadership, motivation, and supervision skills
• Prior experience with planning budgets, schedules, and work plans


Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans

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