DM Commercial & Business Development
- Job Purpose
- Deals with customer on day-to-day inventory, shipping, logisics, complaint handling, thus providing a centre point of contact to all customers
- Supporting Manager Commercial in LPG business / operational support mainly and coordination
- Internal and external reporting as per Vopak and Engro guidelines
- Improves relationship with customer.
- Drafting and management of commercial contracts
- Clearly understand the commercial contracts, company philosophy, objectives and targets and implement the same in building relationship with customers, working in close contact with Terminal Manager.
- Supervises CLS Coordinator and provide him the guidance to prepare three months advance berth occupancy schedule, daily dispatches and monthly / yearly inventory reports and reconciliation.
- Working on new opportunities with Manager commercial (currently EDC, MGPA, Propane)
- Key Accountabilities & Performance Indicators
(Maximum 12/14 accountability statements in the form of verb/noun/result area). This section should answer the question “What are the main areas in which this job must get results in order to achieve its Purpose. Check for a link between the items listed and the KPIs of the organization)
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Responsibility Areas |
Key Activities Performed |
Performance Indicators |
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Clear messaging to customers on safety police |
Personnel and Process LI’s |
Responsible for the upkeep of the CRM system and promptly acting on any update Requirement from Vopak Division/Global |
Coordination with customers and ensure overall customer satisfation |
NPS score |
Ensure prompt start and closure on their complaint within 10 days of registering the complaints. |
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Coordination with customers and team to ensure best possible outcome |
NPS score |
Maintain update customer information about their yearly / monthly/ weekly / daily requirements, planned shutdown and future expansion plans and disseminate the same within the company for internal planning of any maintenance activity, business development strategy etc. |
Ensure compliance of PQA requirements and EVTL’s policy |
No major customer complaint / issue due to berthing issues
No reported non-compliance |
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As per customer requirement |
No customer complaint / overall customer satisfaction |
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As per management guideline |
No major hold-ups by the authorities |
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As per management guideline |
Level of automation utilized |
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As per Vopak guidelines |
As per Vopak guidelines |
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As per customs guidelines |
As per customs guidelines |
- Budget Responsibility
(Financial items which this position is accountable for or has a strong impact on. The money amount should be on an annual basis, rounded to nearest thousand, ten thousand, etc. Accountability for revenue and expenditure should be included)
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Value |
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Operating Budget items approved by this position |
Nil |
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Revenue (sales) targets for this position |
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Cost of employees under your direction |
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Total no. of immediate subordinate positions |
01 |
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Overall capital expenditures that will be made in this immediate department / section / branch this year |
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What position makes the ultimate approval for the project and therefore the total budget |
BOD |
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What position approves the actual item by item purchase of the individual items within the overall capital expenditure mentioned above |
GM C & BD |
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*Number may change based on the business requirements and growth agenda. Please describe any other financial or money amount items that will help to understand the impact of this job.
NOTES: For subordinate positions, please don’t include money amounts which are for the whole department, or for the supervisor / manager position. If this position in fact does not approve budgets, or budget expenditure, or if this position does not have direct sales / revenue targets, then the above items should be blank.
- Frameworks, Boundaries and Decision-Making Authority:
(Define the nature of policy/procedure/instruction constraints and the nature of reporting relationships with line manager as well as any relevant sign-off authorities)
- Own Decisions (Types of decisions the incumbent can make)
- As per Limits of Authority Manual
- Daily/monthly inventory reports to customers and internal customers,
- Berth Occupancy Schedule (BOS) update and issuance,
- Collection of data as per requirement of Deputy Manager Commercial.
- Types of decisions referred to higher authority or decisions which are controlled by policy
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- As per Limits of Authority Manual
- Annual leaves and overseas travel
- Change in working procedure
- Hospitality charges waiver as per Hospitality policy
- Release of retention product as per Retention policy
- LPG swapping between customers as per Swap policy
- LPG physical aduit waiver
- LPG product handling waiver as per Credit policy
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- The review of the work expected from this position
- Physical inventory reporting
- BOS
- Customer complaints
- Internal and external report
- What position(s) gives any further specific (formal) advice or guidance to this position
- Commercial Manager
- GM C & BD
- Communication and Working Relationships
(Describe the purpose and nature of the main internal and external contacts, excluding line manager and direct reports, which are necessary to perform the job)
- Main internal stakeholders:
- Terminal (mainly operations and maintenance)
- Management
- Main external stakeholders:
- Surveyors and agents providing services at Terminal on behalf of customers. Close contact has to be maintained with respective customer representatives for smooth running of services and share the possible improvements or deficiencies being faced.
- Customers
- Key Challenges
(Briefly describe the most difficult and complex aspects, the main challenges of the Job and/or other significant features not covered elsewhere.)
- Managing multiple stakeholders / customers on a shared jetty
- Managing multiple stakeholders on a shared LPG storage
- Securing tankages from customers for out of service inspections
- Drafting and managing contracts as per Vopak guidelines
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities, Experience [KSAE] required
(Describe the minimum level of Knowledge, Years of experience and Must-Have Leadership and Technical/Functional skills)
Skills / Abilities & Key Knowledge Areas
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Must-have Leadership Competencies (Identify min 3 where Advance level is needed)
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Must-Have Technical/ Functionals skills/ knowledge areas (List max 6; ideally max 4 with Advance level)
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- Experience & Education (& Technical Qualifications if applicable)
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Professional/ Sectoral Experience – (Must mention relevant)
Minimum 5 years |
Education & Technical Qualifications* (List must-haves & preferable)
Graduation (BBA, B Engg, BSc, B Com) |