Manager - New Business Development - Oleochemicals Firm

Manager - New Business Development

Responsibilities:

- Assist HOD in the business development strategy and budget for Oleochemicals in the geography.

- Develop quality control and assurance strategy for VVF.

- Assist HOD to identify new business opportunities through market, customer and competitor analysis.

- Develop quality control and assurance strategy for VVF global.

- Contribute to the Annual Business Planning process through accurate revenue forecasting for NBD sales of Oleochemicals.

- Plan and implement business development initiatives to increase new sales and give inputs on.

- Pricing.

- Geographies and accounts.

- Key variants for volume growth in products.

- Ensure that the initiatives are in line with the global Oleo strategy and product/pricing/marketing guidelines.

- Interact with new and existing customers (Procurement , R&D functions as approoriate) to conduct business development discussions and negotiate pricing, SLAs etc.

- Interface with R&D and other internal functions to manage New Product Development ideas to samples and approval stage through strong project management.

- Promote a culture of innovation across the Oleochemicals business in concert with the HR team.

- Align plant level functions and initiatives to collaboration and integration of efforts to achieve common goals.