Assistant Sales Manager Marine Japan

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Date: May 15, 2026

Location: Tokyo, JP

Company: AkzoNobel

About AkzoNobel

Since 1792, we’ve been supplying the innovative paints and coatings that help to color people’s lives and protect what matters most. Our world class portfolio of brands – including Dulux, International, Sikkens and Interpon – is trusted by customers around the globe. We’re active in more than 150 countries and use our expertise to sustain and enhance the fabric of everyday life. Because we believe every surface is an opportunity. It’s what you’d expect from a pioneering and long-established paints company that’s dedicated to providing sustainable solutions and preserving the best of what we have today – while creating an even better tomorrow. Let’s paint the future together.

For more information please visit www.akzonobel.com

Key Accountabilities

• To Generate Profit & prepare sales plan:
- Visit customers and pursue customer’s requirement and needs.
- Providing timely customer call report.
- Making quotation for Drydock, Sea stock and newbuilding.
- Providing customer’s data including;
– Organisation chart
– Decision making process
– Ship’s profiles
– Key competitors
– A/F Strategy
– S/S purchase strategy
– NB projects
– Group companies related
– Making general approaching plan for individual account.
• Sea stock Quotation
– Coordinating with supply associates for stock delivery
– Providing proposal and finalize quotation
– Recording and analysing sea stock data
• Any other tasks / assignments instructed by manager

Experience

Making sales strategy to meet market requirement.
Products knowledge to our line up and explain basic chemical reaction.
Basic English communication with our affiliates and foreign customers.
Basic knowledge of finance/account.
Arranging foreign business trip to visit customers/shipyard etc. outside of Japan.
Ability of education to Junior sales in terms of sales activity, business knowledge etc.

At AkzoNobel we are highly committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful workplace where all employees can be their best self. We strive to embrace diversity in a context of tolerance. Our talent acquisition process plays an integral part in this journey, as setting the foundations for a diverse environment. For this reason we train and educate on the implications of our Unconscious Bias in order for our TA and hiring managers to be mindful of them and take corrective actions when applicable. In our organization, all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability.

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