Intertek Sales Professionals Awarded Profession's Highest Accolade in Hong Kong

06 Jun 2019

Sam Leung and Angus Tam receive Distinguished Salesperson Award

Intertek Hong Kong’s Sam Leung, Business Development Director, Hardlines, and Angus Tam, Assistant Manager, Electrical, have been conferred with Distinguished Salesperson awards at the 51st Distinguished Salesperson Awards (DSA) in Hong Kong.

The DSA Presentation Ceremony Dinner was held on June 5, 2019 in the Grand Hall of the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The event saw around 900 senior representatives and salespeople from a wide array of industries, including finance and banking, telecommunications, property, insurance, and logistics, gather to celebrate and recognize the performance of some one hundred distinguished salespeople in the most prestigious cross-industry competition for sales professionals in Hong Kong.

Several hundred participants went through a vigorous selection process, which reviewed project management, sales pitch and improvised selling. All were judged on their contribution to personal achievement and continuous development, customer relationship-building skills, product and market knowledge, effectiveness of convincing and sales-closing skills.

Said Angus Tam: “I have learnt a lot from the DSA programme and realize how much I love to be a salesperson. I would like to sincerely thank my parents who have trained me to be a confident and patient person. I am grateful to be in a sales team led by supportive management colleagues.”

Sam Leung commented: “Our success in these awards is extremely gratifying, but we do not take this success for granted. We will continue to work hard, to innovate, and to drive excellence in all aspects of our TQA businesses. Customer excellence remains our goal.”

Recognized worldwide as the gold standard in selling and servicing excellence, the Distinguished Salesperson Award (DSA) was first launched in the United States in 1950. It is organized annually in Hong Kong under the sponsorship of the Sales and Marketing Executives Club of The Hong Kong Management Association (HKMA), in conjunction with Sales and Marketing Executives International of New York (SMEI). This year marks the 51st Distinguished Salesperson Award (DSA) and is the first time that Intertek Hong Kong has nominated our salespersons to participate in this competition.

Patrick S Lee, Executive Vice President, North East Asia and Australasia, said during a live interview at the DSA Presentation Ceremony Dinner, “As our customers offer more and more new products and services in the market, it is important that we continue to innovate and offer new services that can meet their needs. Besides strong technical expertise, it’s crucial that our salespersons are also equipped with great selling skills. Participation at the DSA Competition is a great learning opportunity for them.” Patrick also pointed out one key quality of good sales people, which is being able to transfer passion from oneself to another.

Before nomination of salespersons for the DSA Competition, Intertek Hong Kong also held an ‘Intertek’s Got Talent’ – 1 Min Elevator Pitch Competition, which required participants to pitch in front of a judging panel for a brand-new service, the materials for which were given to them only 15 minutes beforehand.