Sales & Business Development Director

Bonfiglioli Riduttori bonfiglioli.com Open · verified Sep 30, 2026

Shanghai Director Business Development

At a glance

Leadership Business Development role at Bonfiglioli Riduttori. Shanghai.

Pay not stated

RoleBusiness Development

SeniorityDirector

LocationShanghai

PostedSep 16, 2026 · 2w ago

Role brief

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What you'll do

Develop sector sales by studying customer needs, market trends, competitors, applications, and potential geographical markets
Coordinate global sales planning across regions, tracking sector revenue, market share, and account targets
Improve sales processes by defining coordinated sales models, documenting local requirements, and sharing practices across regions
Support key-account and customer proposals by shaping technical and financial offers with sales engineers, Legal, and R&D
Work with Product Marketing on customer communication, promotion, training, and product development opportunities

What you bring

You can analyze sector markets, customer requirements, competitor activity, and future demand to guide commercial decisions
You can coordinate sales teams across regions and countries while following results through structured processes
You can shape technical solutions, pricing, trading conditions, and feasibility for customer proposals
You understand products and applications well enough to guide sales teams and support co-engineering with R&D

Who this fits

This role suits a director-level commercial operator who can connect global sales planning, technical proposals, product development, and market intelligence. You will work across Sales Development, Local Sales, Legal, Product Marketing, sales engineers, and R&D, with the role based in Shanghai.

From the employer

Mission

Responsible for sector market sales development and customer needs analysis with the aim to support Sector Leader in the definition of sector business strategy and contribute to identify the technical product development.
Manage the deployments of sector strategies coordinating sales activities in different regions for the development of a specific market, in line with Sector

Main Responsibilities

SALES INTELLIGENCE

Provide a depth understanding of the target market trends and future developments in order to offer a competitor/market intelligence and identify the areas of improvement
Identify and propose new opportunities as new geographical markets for the specific sector, or new applications o new key accounts in order to guarantee a commercial development

SALES PLANNING

Manage the planning and coordination of global sales activities and supervise the achievement of results (revenues and market share) collaborating with Sales Development (By Area) and Local Sales
Ensure the achievement of sales targets for the sector/account with a structured follow up process across Regions and Countries.

SALES PROCESSES & TOOLS

Provide a gap analysis about global sales processes in order to identify improvements opportunities
Collaborates with Legal, Sales Development (By Area) & Local Sales to creates a coordinated sales approach through the definition of a sales model (e.g. frame agreements, …) and of a platform for the documentation management that contain all local needs
Ensure know-how/best practices sharing and cross-collaboration between regions through the definition of a add value commercial approaches, also collaborating with Sales Engineers
Support Local Sales to define appropriate technical and financial aspects of offers, including prices and trading conditions, also collaborating with sales engineers
Analyze, in collaboration with Product Marketing, technical requirements related sales area in order to propose new tools to enhance sales processes and improve market intelligence
Monitors the compliance of the Local Sales Teams with required standards for maintaining data in the sales tools.

GO TO MARKET

Provide a depth understanding of products and applications for the specific sector becoming the commercial reference for the sales teams and for its specific applications
Manage, in collaboration with Sales Development (By Area) and Local Sales, the development of sales strategies for the key accounts participating during the technical proposal towards the customer and selecting the best technical solutions that the customer need and also defining the feasibility of some requests
Identify and propose new product development, reveal in advance the market demands and trends in collaboration with Product Marketing
Ensure the maximum portfolio is offered according to local market needs and according to the agreed sector approach.
Guarantee the technical proposal towards the customer, offering a co-engineering in collaboration with R&D (for Tier 1 and Tier 2 projects) and selecting the best technical solutions that the customer need and also defining the feasibility of some requests

MARKETING

Collaborate with Produtct Marketing to identify communication, promotion and training to customers and executes those activities that require HQ participation