Assistant Service Sales Officer

Telesales to create opportunities proactively

• Phone sales to core 2 and core 3 customers including maintenance contract conversions, renegotiations and new digital services. Can sell VB repairs through campaigns

• Proactive creation and development of customer relationships

• Creates, qualifies and communicates leads and sales opportunities for entire KONE sales team (e.g. cross-selling)

• Responsible for making courtesy calls

• Takes care of inbound and outbound telesales

• Ensures successful conversions with existing and new maintenance customers

• Driving execution of her/his individual sales plan

• General responsibilities for all core 2 and 3 customers

• Responsible for gathering relevant information about market and competitors while interacting with customers

Renegotiation and cancellation prevention

• Renegotiates expiring contracts proactively, if any

• Responds and resolves cancellation risks

• Defends price escalation and resolve issues

• Monitor and resolve suspended contracts if any

Complaint and query handling

• Solves complaints with the rest of KONE team

• Handles queries

• Supports the finance function in money collection

Support sales people

• Qualifies leads and plans and schedules visits for farmer

Data quality and communications to ensure customer experience

• Coordinates technical problems with supervisor and technicians

• Coordinates with supervisor and technicians in case of technical problems or new opportunities

• Monitors the leads and new opportunities in CRM and assigns them to right person

• Follows customers not visited; calls and identifies level of satisfaction and opportunity

• Documents the customer and contact information, maintains customer data

Responsibilities in modernization sales:

• Identifies, develops and follows up existing opportunities of modernizations while calling customer for maintenance topics

• Can sell VB Repairs in campaigns

• Follows up the modernization opportunities forecasted for the month and pushes for appointment for salesperson

• Identifies inspection and KONE Care for Life (C4L) opportunities and push for negotiation

• Coordinates with supervisor/technicians when site survey is required before new offer for modernization

• Ensures customer satisfaction Potential additional responsibilities:

• Supports hunter in the following areas (exact work split between hunter and sales specialist may vary country by country)

• Books appointments, generating leads in LIO and using KONE Tools

• Calls customers based on the target list and fixing appointments (considering various factors e.g. location, other appointments)

• Informs hunter about the appointments

• Updates CRM according to the communication of the hunter on outcomes of the meetings

• Creates opportunities and offers with the basic information wherever required

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