Chapter 203: The Only Hope for a Big Order
At noon on the second day after the signing, the two Santanas drove to the West Lake Hotel one after the other, Zhou Ming, Su Han and Li Qingyuan, and Zhao Jun, general manager of Linyang Babao Porridge Hangcheng Branch, got out of the car and walked into the hotel, and the hotel manager personally greeted them at the door and entered the box.
Coming to the box, the waiter served a good meal, and Zhou Ming introduced Zhao Jun and Li Qingyuan while pouring wine: "Manager Zhao, this Li Qingyuan used to be the chairman of the company, and now we have acquired the company, and I am ready to appoint him as the marketing manager of our new baby porridge, mainly responsible for the marketing and future development of our eight treasure porridge in Hangzhou, you are the general manager of the company, I hope you will cooperate with each other in the future." ”
After Zhou Ming's introduction, Li Qingyuan first toasted to Zhao Jun: "Hello Manager Zhao, I am Li Qingyuan, I am very happy to be a part of the new doll laughing eight treasure porridge company, although I have also had experience in food sales in the past, but compared to Manager Zhao, you are still a novice, Manager Zhao's sales in Hangzhou City alone are millions, which is very powerful, I hope Manager Zhao can help a lot." ”
"Manager Li has won the award, and my achievements are all the brand advantages of Babao Porridge established by Boss Zhou, and I am just doing things step by step. However, Manager Li's name made me thunderous, and he brought such a bankrupt company as Dolllaugh to the most successful enterprise in Nancheng District, and this ability is admired by many people, including me. ”
Zhao Jun also said politely to Li Qingyuan, Zhou Ming could hear that he was just being polite when he said this, and he didn't really want to praise anything, on the contrary, he was still disgusted with Li Qingyuan.
In fact, this reason is also normal, after all, since the establishment of the Hangcheng Babao Porridge Branch, Zhao Jun has always been the general manager, and now a Li Qingyuan suddenly appeared, what is going to be the city's marketing manager, how can it make him feel good? Even if this is Zhou Ming's decision, even if he understands that the company has acquired the Doll Laugh Company, it must be the same for Li Qingyuan, and it is not good to be uncomfortable.
If it is good after developing into a large group, then Zhao Jun, the general manager of the provincial branch, will naturally not have any opinions on adding a city marketing manager, but now the market of Babao porridge is mainly concentrated in the provincial capital, so many city marketing managers, if Zhao Jun will be happy, then there will be a ghost.
As for Comrade Li Qingyuan's original performance in the Doll Laughing Company, a person whose monthly sales are less than one million, what can he compare with a person who sells millions of dollars a month?
"Manager Zhao Manager Li, Hangcheng City is now developing greatly, it can be expected that the development of Hangzhou and even Binjiang Province will definitely be very good in the future, and the new Doll Laughing Company will definitely go to a higher level with the development of the city and the region, so I hope you can work together to develop the Doll Laughing Company better!" Zhou Ming just made an ordinary encouragement, and did not say anything more about Zhao Jun's attitude.
This is not to say that Zhou Ming can't bring up Li Qingyuan, but he doesn't have any achievements on the side of Babao Porridge Company now, and he can't convince the public if he forcibly mentions it.
After all, in Zhou Ming's understanding, the company is not a powerful organization where the leader says yes and all subordinates nod, which will lose the overall vitality, what Zhou Ming needs is Li Qingyuan to give full play to his ability in his work, prove himself with facts, and use performance to be promoted.
One is to come in and be appointed as a general manager without doing anything; while the other is to start with an ordinary manager, and then appoint a general manager after making a few big orders to bring huge benefits to the company, which way is better? This is clear at a glance, and Zhou Ming also chose the latter very intuitively, because Zhou Ming believes that as long as Li Qingyuan is still the same Li Qingyuan, he can do it, and pulling out the seedlings on this will only harm him.
After the dinner, when Zhou Ming asked him, Li Qingyuan said: "It's normal for Manager Zhao to be like this, because strictly speaking, I haven't done food marketing, and it is the sales performance of Doll Laughing Oral Liquid in the past, which is what is the case for him, and now he rashly gives me a manager, as the general manager, of course he will not be convinced." ”
Li Qingyuan said this, and then said: "But it doesn't matter, I will use my practical actions to make everyone accept me!"
"I believe in Manager Li's determination and ability, but it's better not to be overconfident. ”
Zhou Ming said such a sentence to Li Qingyuan, but in the end it became a prophecy, because in the following more than a week, although Li Qingyuan ran around and worked hard to do marketing and promotion, and also ran a lot of units, but in the end he had little effect, on the one hand, he did not have any way, on the other hand, he was also a salesman in so many divisions of the company, as long as it was an easy-to-open market, they would have opened it a long time ago, where was Li Qingyuan's turn to do it?
Li Qingyuan didn't return home until it was dark this day, and after he got home, he sat directly on the sofa and didn't want to move, and his wife Zuo Huizhen came over and asked with concern: "Is there no progress in Qingyuan going to the countryside today?"
Li Qingyuan shook his head, with a tired face: "I have run several supply and marketing cooperatives, but they also have cooperation agreements with Babao Porridge Factory, and I have understood, the amount of these agreements is not large, even if I can find the supply and marketing cooperatives that have not been developed, I am afraid that it will be a drop in the bucket with their needs." ”
"No matter how much mosquitoes laugh, it's meat, Qingyuan, you must have a result if you run a few more supply and marketing cooperatives, as long as there are more supply and marketing cooperatives, won't Qingyuan's sales also go up?" Zuo Huizhen said.
"This method is a good way to be diligent, but I can't do it!" Li Qingyuan said with a sigh.
Zuo Huizhen asked why curiously, Li Qingyuan replied: "It's very simple, if I am an ordinary salesman, then I am understandable to do this, but I am now a marketing manager appointed by Boss Zhou, I do this because I don't have enough time, and secondly, I am competing for the market with ordinary salesmen, which will cause internal conflicts within the company, so even if I make achievements, it is not conducive to my management." ”
"This can't work, that's not good, Qingyuan, what are you going to do!" Zuo Huizhen said distressedly.
"I have to make a big order in a short period of time, only then can I prove myself the best, fastest and most directly, and let everyone recognize my ability!" Li Qingyuan said.
"Big lists? Now there are no small orders for the rural supply and marketing cooperatives, how can there be any big orders?"
When Li Qingyuan and Zuo Huizhen were chatting at home, and on the other side in the hotel room, Zhou Ming and Su Han also talked about Li Qingyuan's current situation, and Su Han asked at that time.
"Zhou Ming, I believe in your vision very much, and I also believe that Li Qingyuan is sure that he can do a good job of big orders, but now almost all the big orders in the company are in the hands of Manager Zhao and the two vice presidents. Su Han analyzed, "Do you want Li Qingyuan to snatch the order from them? If he really does this, it will be artificially creating contradictions within the company, or contradictions at the top level, which is very unfavorable to the company's management." ”
Zhou Ming shook his head and said: "Xiao Han, don't worry, he is Li Qingyuan, his pride will definitely not allow him to do this, if he really plans to use this brain, then even if he has the ability and his mind is wrong, I will expel him." ”
Su Han was not surprised by Zhou Ming's answer, Zhou Ming was Zhou Ming, a man she loved and respected, and he would not change the principles he adhered to in any way.
But at the same time, Su Han was a little worried: because if Li Qingyuan didn't do this, how could he make achievements in a short period of time?
At this time, Zhou Ming suddenly asked Su Han: "Xiaohan, if I'm not mistaken, isn't there a state-owned unit of Binjiang Ocean Freight Company bidding for ocean food recently? This list should sound quite in line with our customers' needs, why does it seem that something has gone wrong?"
Su Han thought for a moment and nodded: "There is indeed such a bidding meeting, it is a one-year supply contract with a shipping company, if it can be won at least a million-level large order, there may be tens of millions." And the eight-treasure porridge is a very suitable product on the ship, both in terms of nutritional taste and difficulty in preservation, and Zhao Jun, the general manager of the company, is in charge of following up on this bidding, but he does not have much confidence to win. ”
"Why is this? Since we have such a big advantage, why do we not have confidence? Could it be that he has offended the CEO of the shipping company?" Zhou Ming asked curiously.
Su Han shook his head and said: "No, it's just that this shipping company has always cooperated with Hangcheng Supply and Marketing Company, and the supply provided there is also the most comprehensive, and the price is relatively fair, and we don't have much competitive advantage compared with them." So Zhao Jun's idea was that he would talk to the supply and marketing company to see if he could take a part of this big list out of it. ”
Zhou Ming smiled: "It seems that this Zhao Jun is a realist, since he can't eat meat, it's good to be able to drink some soup, but I'm afraid I think Li Qingyuan is not so generous." ”
Su Han immediately understood what Zhou Ming meant: "Zhou Ming, are you saying that Li Qingyuan will come to fight for this project?
Zhou Ming nodded yes, Su Han gasped and said: "This is to confront the supply and marketing company head-on, if you only rely on the strength of Binjiang Branch or even Li Qingyuan, it is impossible to take it down, and we are only an eight-treasure porridge company, it is impossible to supply only eight-treasure porridge on shipping, I'm afraid we can't supply the vegetables, rice and noodles they want!"
"I don't think it's a problem, because our Babao Porridge Company originally cooperated with some farms, and now we are just buying the raw materials of Babao Porridge, not necessarily not being able to import some rice, noodles and vegetables, even if we don't understand this, we can completely open the list and send it to others, or think of other ways, but this premise is that the list must be in our own hands!" Zhou Ming said.
Su Han looked at Zhou Ming adoringly: It is worthy of Zhou Ming, the decisions he made and the words he said were so imposing, but this is Zhou Ming, so will Li Qingyuan have the guts?
Su Han was skeptical, but Zhou Ming comforted her and said: "Don't worry, Xiaohan, as long as Li Qingyuan is still that Li Qingyuan, he will have this guts, because this is the only big order he can get to prove his worth." ”
As if to prove Zhou Ming's words, when Zhou Ming's words fell, his mobile phone on the table suddenly remembered, Zhou Ming picked it up and connected it, and Li Qingyuan's voice immediately came from there: "Boss Zhou, I want to be in charge of the bidding project of the shipping company's list......"