ThaiNGO

Account Executive for The PLEDGE [Full Time]

Keen to expand your career, acquire skills in capacity building, consulting, and technology, and apply it to help businesses fix one of the most detrimental issues faced by our society?

Since 2012, we’ve been at the forefront of sustainability, working with top-tier clients like Marriott, Hyatt, Accor, GIZ, and Michelin Guide Thailand across 30 countries. We’re passionate about what we do, and we’re looking for equally passionate individuals to join our young, dynamic team.

What are we expecting from you?  

Customer Management (35%)  

• Develop and maintain client relationships
• Organizing regular client meetings to ensure excellent customer service, solving problems for clients by understanding and exceeding their expectations.  
• Actively and consistently supports all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience, uncovering and understanding customers’ needs  
• Gather useful information from customer and competitor data  
• Ensure renewals of existing customers and negotiating terms and conditions if necessary  
• Reporting and recording all sales activities in a web-based CRM system.  
• Prepare, review and submit sales or partnership contracts, invoice and receipts  
• Works in conjunction with other business services support groups, including sales support and marketing personnel.  
• Attends all sales meetings and training sessions as required by management

Project Management (35%)  

• Serving as main point of contact for projects, ensuring excellent organization and reliability  
• Performing quality control on the project throughout development to maintain the standards expected  
• Creating long- and short-term plans, including setting targets for milestones and adhering to deadlines  
• Making effective decisions when presented with multiple options for how to progress with the project  

Business Development (30%)  

• Identify and research potential clients  
• Qualifying inbound leads and prospects  
• Holding sales pitches with an end goal of earning a prospect business  
• Preparing and presenting proposals and bids  
• Collaborating with key decision makers to identify opportunities and develop ideas that deliver sales results  
• Designs, develops, and delivers sales proposals and presentations on product benefits.  
• Drive the end-to-end sales process  
• Conduct ongoing market research  
• Develop and manage strategic partnerships to grow business

Who are we looking for? 

• Masters/Bachelors degree in Business, Marketing, Sustainability or a related field or relevant number of years of experience.  
• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience in the hospitality business or as a consultant  
• Ability to work successfully with the team, handling multiple tasks and meeting deadlines  
• Mature, highly responsible, proactive, fast learner  
• Fluent in English (TOEIC score 750 minimum)

What do you get from us? 

• We carefully train and nurture our team members; including but not limited to participation in the Food Waste Prevention Online Course (Certificate of Completion provided)
• Serious credentials, working with a pioneer food waste hacking tech and consulting company
• Opportunity to prepare and deliver hands-on food waste prevention projects, to train professionals and provide advisory services.
• Social Security and Salary: Negotiable (depending on experience & skill)
• Working location: Bangkok office (near BTS Chong Nonsi)  
• At LightBlue & THE PLEDGE, we value our employees work life balance, thus we offer an attractive:
• • Work from Home policies, the longer you work with us the more you get
  • Annual leave package and TGIF (last Friday afternoon of each month is free to use as the employee wish)
  • After work, your time is yours
• The candidate needs to have his/her own laptop during the 1^st year in the company

How to apply?

Please email a cover letter or a short video in English (which explains why you are applying for this position, what attracts you to the company and the desired starting dates) and your resume to hp@lightblueconsulting.com