HCM - Assistant To CEO - Business Development

1. Roles and Responsibilities
a) Assistance tasks:
· Deal with internal correspondence on behalf of CEO, including drafting and writing emails as required and delivering documents as required.
· Make relevant communications between CEO and internal departments; demonstrate leadership in order to maintain credibility, trust and support from senior management.
· Manage and maintain executive schedules, including scheduling travel and conferences, making appointments, and making changes to appointments.
· Prepare executive responses to routine memos, letters, or correspondence.
· Give proper directions to HODs as an act on behalf of CEO.
· Give bridge of communications between CEO and HODs, especially during CEO's absence at office.
· Follow up with tasks and problem-solving issues assigned to HODs by CEO.
· Act on behalf of CEO to directly fix arising issues from various Departments.
b) Business development tasks:
· Directly negotiating the contracts with principal brands... in order to bargain the price, terms and conditions of contracts; and on top getting targeted brands into company portfolio.
· Recommend, introduce and advise on potential and current partners.
· Conduct Vietnam market survey and research.
· Provide feedback and advice as to how the product quality, design and services should be improved to satisfy the demand of consumers in the Vietnamese market.
· Provide a background on all sales channels in Vietnam and recommendations on how to approach the market.
· Conduct all necessary activities within Company's business development interests, including but not limited to communicating with current and potential partners, handling current and potential clients/consumers, following up with current and potential partners regarding any news/updates of Company's business.
· Prepare & update business plan, company profile, and Vietnamese market overview twice a year.
· Work closely with CEO on strategies in setting up local business and coordinate all meeting with top managements in the company.
· Work in conjunction with BDM for strategies, research and conduct case studies then report directly to CEO for final approval.
· Greeting visitors and determining access to appropriate parties
c) Leasing task:
· Directly negotiating the leasing contracts with landlord ... in order to bargain the price, terms and conditions of contracts (Vincom VN, other mall and street shop from Quang Ngai province to Ca Mau);
· Discussing with lawyers about terms and conditions to ensure legal calculation in the company's lease contracts.
· Handling all kind of correspondence related to leasing contract with landlord.
· Following the period term of all lease contracts to promptly continue or terminate base on business plan.
· Connecting all related departments to insure opening schedule for new stores.
· Expanding relationship with new mall, new project of landlord.
· Dealing with mall for Maison marketing program.