Principle Field Presales, Manufacturing (Japan)
ABOUT RELEX
RELEX is a fast-growing software company developing its own products that help retail companies plan and operate more efficiently. By accurately forecasting consumption of goods, we reduce inventory costs, increase availability, and cut waste. To achieve this, we use our in-house built terabyte-scale in-memory database, which stores tens of billions of rows of data.
What you’ll be doing:
- Providing solutions & supply chain industry guidance to RELEX account executives when closing new deals with prospective RELEX customers in the Manufacturing industry or expanding partnerships with existing ones.
- Joining a growing global team as we seek to continue our success story in the Manufacturing industry, with a primary focus on Japan
You will support sales opportunities by:
- Demonstrating RELEX software strengths and applying these to prospective customer challenges,
- Consulting on the best initial practice supply chain process & solution design,
- Ensuring prospects understand the business value of working with RELEX, & building confidence in the team’s ability to deliver on that business value,
- Creating a vision of the future partnership potential between RELEX and the customer through your own example.
You will support existing customer operations by:
- Supporting newly signed customers through their transition into project phase
- Providing continuity in pre-sales solution guidance to the RELEX operations team
What you’ll be responsible for:
- Becoming a trusted advisor to our customers through open, honest and transparent engagement
- Providing expertise on the RELEX solution current & future capability
- Providing Manufacturing process consultancy, challenging the customer’s thinking, and giving insight into industry best practise
- Preparing and delivering solution presentations and demonstrations
- Conducting discovery workshops to understand the customer’s current situation & future aims
- Describing our implementation methodology and building confidence in our ability to
- Calculating business cases using customer data
- Highlighting how we differ from our competition
- Understanding and articulating our case studies, showing how we provided value to others
- Managing, coordinating and ensuring quality of formal responses to RFIs, RFPs,
- Communicating the excitement, we have to make a genuine difference for our customers
What you’ll bring to the table:
- The ability to problem-solve on your feet in a fast-paced environment
- Intellectual curiosity and a desire to learn
- Ownership, commitment, and a can-do attitude
- Top class communications skills including
- An inspiring and engaging presentation style
- An ability to convey complex concepts to audiences in a way they understand
- An ability to challenge customer thinking in a constructive and positive way, regardless of a person’s role or level of seniority.
- At least 3-5 years’ experience with a consumer-packaged goods manufacturer or consultancy/software provider focused on the Manufacturing and / or supply chain industry
- Excellent understanding of RELEX’s key solution areas including Forecasting & Demand Planning, Inventory Planning, Distribution Requirements Planning, Rough Cut Capacity Planning, Master Production Scheduling, and S&OP.
- Willingness to travel in Japan and APAC if needed
What we'll consider as an advantage:
- Knowledge of detailed Production Scheduling and Category
- Previous experience of RELEX
What we offer in return
You’ll be supported and given the space to thrive. We offer meaningful work, flexibility, and a culture that backs you to share your voice and be authentic.
- An international career and learning opportunities
- A rapidly growing and financially robust software company with exciting opportunities for career growth, also in the future
These are the RELEX key benefits
- Flexible working
- Annual leave
- Internet and mobile phone benefits
- Diverse, inclusive, and supportive work culture
- Meaningful work with a commitment to a more sustainable future
- High autonomy
- Room for creativity
- Family-oriented policies
- Flat hierarchies
We are a global community of different cultures, voices, and experiences. We celebrate what makes us unique and connect through what we share, in an authentic and safe environment. Together we shape the future, and each other.
If you feel this is the opportunity you don’t want to miss, you can apply by sending your cover letter and resume through the application form as soon as possible.
