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Rex Kao

Staff Sales Manager
★As a seasoned sales professional with 10 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, I have served as a Distribution Sales Manager in various markets including industry, IoT, and healthcare.etc ★Coupled with my sales expertise, has enabled me to effectively lead the distribution team at Renesas. I have successfully worked with prominent distributors such as WT, WPI, Avnet, Galaxy, and Alltek, among others, to expand Renesas' reach and grow our business. ★I prioritize my physical well-being and have a regular exercise routine that includes weight training. This not only keeps my energy levels high, but also helps me maintain a clear and flexible mind. As a result, I am always ready to adapt to new environments and relish taking on new challenges.
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Renesas Electronics Corporation
National Chengchi University
Taipei City, Taiwan

Professional Background

  • Current status
    Unemployed
    Ready to interview
  • Profession
    Enterprise Sales
    Sales
    Sales Manager
  • Fields
    Semiconductor
  • Work experience
    10-15 years (10-15 years relevant)
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 5-10 people
  • Skills
    Goal Setting
    Dedicated
    Semiconductor Industry
    Customer Service
    Sales Management
    Sales
    Account Sales
    Product Lines
    Mass Market
  • Languages
    English
    Fluent
    Japanese
    Beginner
  • Highest level of education
    Bachelor

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Interested in working remotely
  • Desired positions
    Sales Manager
  • Desired work locations
    Taiwan
  • Freelance
    Non-freelancer

Work Experience

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Staff sales manager

Jun 2018 - Jan 2024
5 yrs 8 mos
Sales domain skills: ☑Achieving personal local demand creation goal to US$40M(non fulfillment rev) at PC/Networking/ industrial key accounts in CY23. ☑Reported Sales/Distributor growth strategy and account plan to management and solid line supervisor ☑Full experience of dealing with frequent calls on shortages and price-increase issues with customers, and striving for allocation/waiving support from BU/PLM and operators ☑Introduced NPI and created total solutions before the market boomed, resulting in personal billing goals being exceeded beyond 50% YoY revenue and 30% CAGR by cross selling more sockets and expanding a broader customer base ☑Delivered price increase/BD reserve/demand secure program and executed them accordingly ☑Negotiated with customers to close issues like legal terms and RMA failure compensation issues Distribution management: ☑Led Mass Market distribution teams to achieve company revenue, design in, and combo/cross sell growth targets ☑Set distributor annual targets and scorecards, and hosted distributor training and QBRs for continuous improvement ☑Executed distributor termination and business migration within the timeline per distributor agreement and stock transfers. ☑Assigned territory and goals to each distribution based on individual experience and character, and incentivized MCU categories with a variety of PN# ☑Hosted weekly/monthly DIT and QBR with distributions for assigned accounts to drive periodical POS/POP of revenue and company goals Special awards: ☑Won the DDR5 global award from Renesas, leveraging DDR5 Gaming RGB turnkey development ☑Experienced the acquisition of Intersil/IDT/Dialog/Celeno into one Renesas ☑Familiar with tools including SAP, MidelN, Salesforce, Mercury, and proprietary systems in Renesas

Sales Assistant Manager

Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
9 mos
☑ The sales representative for a multi-line account is responsible for managing PC, IPC, and AUTO customers. With expertise in product lines such as NXP, Infineon, Bosch, Winbond, Microchip, Richtek, and others.

Senior Sales Engineer

Jun 2016 - Jul 2017
1 yr 2 mos
☑ Responsible for managing Inventec Group, which includes IAC, as well as overseeing networking categories such as Alpha Networks and serving over 100 mass market customers. ☑ Focused on sales of TVS products with expertise in key account management as a dedicated product line sales representative for AMAZING.

Sales Engineer

Jun 2014 - May 2016
2 yrs 0 mos
☑As a dedicated product line sales representative responsible for NXP, tasked with promoting the RFID and identification product line.
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Student Intern Program/Office 2010 ambassador

Jul 2010 - Jul 2011
1 yr 1 mo
☑ Selected from a pool of thousands of candidates and successfully qualified for the Microsoft internship after five rounds of interviews. ☑ Responsible for delivering lectures on entrepreneurship and broadcasting OFFICE2010 during a one-year student intern program at Microsoft. ☑ Participated in the Microsoft student program during the 7th session.

Education

Bachelor's degree , Public Finance
2008 - 2013