JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.

Our people at JLL and JLL Technologies are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

How We support the Whole You:

Our benefits are a good reason to come to JLL.

We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people in our industry, and then empowering them with the resources and support to enhance their health, financial and personal well-being. Our underlying benefits philosophy is this: be fair to our people and provide opportunities for those who take advantage of our programs and resources to lower their health costs and increase their personal and financial security.

Benefits to eligible employees, include:

• Group Insurance Plan
• Annual Leave
• Labor Insurance
• National Health Insurance
• Employee Welfare Committee
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

What this job involves:

The Associate Sales Director is responsible for:

• Supporting the Solutions Director and Head of Sales and Solutions to execute growth strategy.
• Managing the Sales process; including prospecting, proposal creation and closing the deal.
• Coordinating the development of clear, articulate, and winning value propositions to our prospective clients.
• Partnering with Operations, functional/technical subject matter experts and marketing to put forth a competitive solution for each qualified prospective client.
• Participating as part of the Sales & Solutions team with their peers to ensure that there is an ongoing exchange of solutions best practices across the business.
• Client-centric – supports Solutions Director and Head of Sales and Solutions with understanding of client’s pains / demands and is skilled at helping team build and present solutions to impress clients.
• Site Tours
• Partnering with key Work Dynamics stakeholders (business lines, service lines, account teams, pursuit teams and SME’s) through the bid process to execute on strategic sales opportunities which include but not limited to prospecting, RFI, RFP, presentation and contracting
• You will be working closely across different teams; the ideal skillset involves a mix of:
• Team player and adept at working to challenging deadlines
• Very innovative and have creative thinking to enable you to design winning opportunity strategies and associated collateral
• Deep knowledge of key MS office products
• Team player with good coordination – time and people management are essential
• Coordinate and support in the overall development of the solution.
• Pro forma owner during negotiations to validate scope and price changes on P&L.
• Ensure all details from pricing and bid make it into the final solution/ agreement. Maintain a thorough knowledge of the competitive environment and articulate the firm’s value proposition
• Ensuring our best solutions, practices, value prop and pricing is applied to every deal.
• Own/support/coordinate these deliverables/activities that will be key for the client proposal
• Understand competitive landscape and seek to positively differentiate bid offer
• Ensure alignment to internal processes and obtain approvals in timely manner
• Submit consistently high quality, customer focused tender responses within allocated time frame
• Coordinate internal and independent reviews in line with bid programme
• Monitor continuous improvement and development opportunities
• Either personally own or work with creative teams to enhance visual impact of tender responses / presentations

What are the key responsibilities associated with this job?

• Coordinate the development of clear, articulate, and winning value propositions for proposal and presentation to our prospective clients.
• Partner with sales leaders, functional/technical subject matter experts and marketing to put forth a tailored, competitive solution for each qualified prospective client.
• Work closely with the Sales Lead, Pricing Manager, other Solution & Proposal team members to create, articulate and sell differentiated solutions
• Participate as part of the Sales Enablement Team with their peers across the globe to ensure that there is an ongoing exchange of solutions best practices across the business.
• Ability to question and probe proposed solutions to further refine client offerings

What are the key skills required for this job?

• Bachelor’s Degree with at least Five years of experience in Sales or marketing related functions: Solution Development, Bid Management, Proposal Management, Sales Enablement.

• A background in operations or service lines will be advantageous.
• Ability to communicate effectively in English and Chinese (written and verbal), coupled with strong influencing skills – particularly at a senior level
• Proven track record of sales or marketing related strategies

Interested? An ideal candidate would need to have the following qualifications

A Process Management Wizard

What level of exposure do you currently have to the bid process? With your experiences in solutioning and/or bid management, you will instinctively take control of all aspects of the process. Included in this will be proposal development, bid clarifications and presentations.

Proposal Development

How do you develop a proposal? In this role, you will be responsible for the creation of bespoke and innovative strategies and value propositions. Building the proposal will need you to coordinate with key internal stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure accuracy around content and pricing. Your strong proposal writing skills will be essential when having to build creative and engaging presentations.

Having worked within a Corporate Real Estate environment, you will have experience of strategic sales, business development and internal relationship management. You will have worked with and influenced corporate decision makers in the management and deployment of their property portfolio. Your Corporate Real Estate expertise would have been gained from within a facilities, projects or transaction environment.

Key Influencer & Collaborator

As a collaboration champion, you will need to be very well received internally, too. Your influencing skills will have helped you navigate and succeed in similar matrix organisations. You thrive on bringing teams together to build bespoke and customised solutions for our clients.

Great Communicator

Can you get your ideas across clearly both verbally and in writing? You’ll be working with many diverse interest groups so the way you share information and your ability to persuasively convey information is highly important.

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

About JLL –

We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 102,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we also have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility. That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. We’re using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people and our communities.

Our core values of teamwork, ethics and excellence are also fundamental to everything we do, and we’re honoured to be recognized with awards for our success by organizations both globally and locally.

Creating a diverse and inclusive culture where we all feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve our full potential is important to who we are today and where we’re headed in the future. And we know that unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives help us think bigger, spark innovation and succeed together.

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If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

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