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Success in this highly visible role will be measured through order growth, market penetration, pipeline development, customer acquisition, and achievement of assigned sales targets.\nYou’ll make a difference in:\nSales Targets & Growth Strategy: Own and deliver assigned order intake, revenue, growth, and profitability targets for the Process Automation portfolio in Malaysia by developing and executing account and market growth strategies across priority industries and customer segments.\nOpportunity Pipeline & Acquisition: Proactively identify, qualify, and create opportunities through customer engagement, market intelligence, and relationship development, building and maintaining a healthy pipeline from early engagement through proposal, negotiation, and contract award while expanding existing accounts and acquiring new customers.\nDeal Management & Win Strategies: Develop competitive win strategies and coordinate internal resources to improve win probability, leading customer-facing commercial discussions and supporting negotiations with Account Managers and relevant business teams.\nSpecification Influence & Lifecycle Conversion: Influencing customer specifications and investment strategies through early engagement and value-based positioning, while identifying and converting modernization, migration, upgrade, replacement, and lifecycle opportunities in established facilities.\nPortfolio Positioning & Stakeholder Relations: Positioning Siemens' Process Automation, DCS, industrial software, and digitalization portfolio based on customer operational needs, building trusted relationships with plant, operations, engineering, consultant, EPC, system-integrator, and executive stakeholders.\nMarket Intelligence & Roadmapping: Engaging customers operating complex, multi-vendor automation environments to develop credible modernization roadmaps while monitoring market trends, investment plans, industry developments, and the competitive landscape.\nSales Enablement & Cross-Functional Collaboration: Enable Account Managers with portfolio insights and sales narratives, collaborate with Technical and Service teams to build competitive solutions, provide market feedback, and ensure effective handover to delivery teams to support retention and satisfaction.\nYour success is grounded in:\nProject Procurement Leadership: You bring 15+ years of international project procurement experience spanning both tender and execution phases within complex project environments.\nRegional Supplier Expertise: You possess 10+ years of sourcing and supplier management experience across Southeast Asia and China, with a strong understanding of international procurement and contract management.\nCommodity & Category Management Experience: You have at least 5 years of experience managing categories or commodities, ideally involving eHouses, modular structures or electrical infrastructure solutions.\n Electrical & Technical Acumen: You demonstrate strong knowledge of complex technical products, including modular electrical buildings (eHouses), Medium Voltage (MV) and Low Voltage (LV) systems, switchgear, transformers, UPS systems, and related site installations.\nCommercial & Negotiation Strength: You have proven success in supplier negotiations, contract management, total cost analysis, and strategic sourcing decisions.\nStakeholder Management & Communication Skills: You are an effective communicator and presenter, capable of influencing stakeholders across procurement, engineering, sales, and project organizations.\nAdaptability & Global Mindset: You thrive in a fast-paced international environment and are willing to travel across APAC and occasionally to Europe or India to support supplier development and project objectives.\nIn return, we offer you:\nFlexible mobile working policy that allows for time off for you to recharge and spend more time with your loved ones \nAttractive compensation and benefits.\nValues-driven work culture with inclusive workplace policies and practices that prioritize diversity and inclusion\nEndless possibilities and opportunities for progression and learning.\nRecruitment Process\nCV Screening \nA session with our recruiter to understand your motivation & your past experiences \n1-2 Business Interviews\nOffer Stage\nCome join us, and transform the everyday with us.\nWe value your unique identity and perspective and are fully committed to providing equitable opportunities and building a workplace that reflects the diversity of society. Come bring your authentic self and create a better tomorrow with us.\nPublic Notice: Recruitment Fraud\nWe wish to caution jobseekers that Siemens, as a policy, does not authorize external parties/agents to conduct employment drives or extend Offers of Employment on our behalf. We do not ask for bank details, payment of any kind nor personal financial information in return for assurance of employment. 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