Job Title: Sales Expert for Fukuoka's Innovation Community

Seeking a passionate sales expert skilled in building strong client relationships and achieving targets, eager to develop Fukuoka's unique innovation community.

We invite you to join our CIC Fukuoka Relationship Management & Sales Team to play a crucial role in growing and nurturing our customer-centric community. If this resonates with you, please read on.

About CIC: CIC builds and operates a global network of innovation campuses where startups, scale-ups, corporations, and public entities connect, work, and grow. Founded in 1999, CIC manages more than 111.000 square meters of innovation-focused workspace, laboratories, and event space across North America, Europe, and Asia. Additionally, CIC develops innovation-related programming, builds and enables industry clusters, and provides world-class innovation consulting.

CIC Fukuoka: Located on the 7th floor of the Shin Fukuoka Building, CIC Fukuoka will encompass approximately 3,500 m2, featuring around 140 private offices, a co-working space with 40 seats, and shared conference rooms. Similar to CIC Tokyo, our first Asian site which launched in October 2020 in the Minato-ku business district, CIC Fukuoka is poised to become another leading innovation hub in Japan. It will also include amenities like conference rooms, kitchen/café space, game room, and others, aiming to replicate CIC Tokyo’s success and reputation as a prestigious center for startups and innovation, known for hosting VIPs and fostering new businesses.

Your Day-to-Day Work: You will be working alongside the leadership team in Fukuoka selling a product and service that has a great reputation. You will help build a positive name and awareness of CIC in Fukuoka to develop leads, attract new clients, and maintain a strong relationship supporting them once they are clients operating within the space. You will also be responsible for developing relationships to integrate CIC Fukuoka into the local community.

Key responsibilities include:
• Thinking creatively about how we can attract leads and support efforts (marketing campaigns, direct outreach, networking) to develop and bring in potential clients.
• Working with prospective clients to determine if CIC is the right place for them to start or grow their business.
• Being a resource for building external relationships within the community.
• Leading tours for prospective clients and informational groups, such as students or visiting delegations.
• Helping drive the creation and implementation of new programs and initiatives around new sales, client support, and overall business development and expansion.
• Managing a client portfolio and providing oversight to assist our clients in getting the most out of their experience at CIC.

About You: You are a professional with a complementary set of skills and style to represent CIC to prospective companies and support current clients at the highest levels of service. You are an articulate and ethical individual who has strong written and verbal communication, organizational skills, and time management skills.

As our ideal candidate, you possess the following qualities:
• Commitment to work that is mission-based, considering your work as an opportunity to make a powerful contribution to a larger effort.
• Ability to own and manage multiple tasks and get the details right.
• Capacity to foster and maintain positive working relationships with potential clients, clients, colleagues, building management, and vendors. You are a true team player.
• Comfortable working with everyone, treating everyone as an equal.
• Demonstrably successful in the work you have performed so far, and you have learned difficult lessons that only challenging times or failure can teach.
• Ability to work independently and communicate effectively with team members and clients alike.
• Ability to make decisions confidently with the best information available to you.
• Personable, happy to help others, and naturally drawn to a very busy, ever-evolving environment.
• Naturally curious person who wants to learn more and is not afraid to ask questions if in doubt.

Requirements: To be considered for this role, you must have:
• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 3 - 5 years of professional experience in sales or relationship management.
• The ability to legally work in Japan. CIC is unable to sponsor visas for this role at this time.
• Fluency in Japanese and strong English proficiency.

Our Offer: We offer a competitive salary adjusted to match your experience, a permanent contract, commuting/transportation allowance, massage session once a month, and an allocated budget for training (customized to specific requirements of the role and organization’s objectives).

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