Business Development Manager, Services South Carolina

Business Development Manager, Services South Carolina

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This position reports to

Service Sales Manager

Your role and responsibilities

The Service Sales Business Development Manager develops tactical and strategic customer plans to meet financial orders, sales and margin goals. In this role, the Business Development Manager will be responsible to grow the ABB EL Services portfolio including service engineering solutions, hardware solutions, aftermarket parts, and ABB Ability Digital Solutions. The Business Development Manager will own identifying, developing, and closing orders while supporting both the businesses short term and long-term goals. To achieve these goals, the Business Development Manager will access the market by leveraging a combination of direct end customer engagement, the ABB EL Rep Network, ABB's C&I, OEM, and Utility Sales Channels, Distribution Customers, and Direct End-Users.

In this role you will play a crucial role in implementing the service sales strategy, with a focus on penetrating installed base and promoting various upgrade, retrofit and value-added solutions.

The work model for the role is: remote (#Li-Remote). While this position is expected to be fully remote, successful candidates should be located in the South Carolina area; successful candidates should be able to travel within the assigned territory.

This role is contributing to the Electrification Services division in the southern region.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Provide sales leadership in assigned geography through the formulation and execution of strategies that leverage local operational service solutions capabilities, ABB Rep Network customer access, and OEM / Distribution channels.
• Maintain / Grow service volume at identified traditional ABB EL Services accounts and maintain accurate and up to date records of all opportunities and disposition opportunities as they evolve in ABB's CRM System (Salesforce.com) (SFDC accuracy is critical to role)
• Establish strong relationships with ABB Reps; implement account planning and pacing processes to ensure Reps are focused on promoting and selling service solutions in the market
• Collaborate with ABB's C&I and OEM, and Utility sales team to leverage existing relationships with distributors, OEMs, and Utility customers to promote the ABB EL Services portfolio

Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or college (OR a High School Diploma / GED with a minimum of 10 years of experience in an industrial or utility sales role); Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Industrial, or Mechanical Engineering preferred.
• Minimum 5 years of experience years of experience in sales or marketing
• Sound knowledge of electrical power studies, switchgear, circuit breakers and protective relaying and the industrial, commercial and utility market
• Demonstrated success in developing new customer volume / trade area.
• Industry experience in Marine, Utilities, Manufacturing, Material Handling, Pharmaceutical, Water / Waste Water, Metals, Mining, Pulp and Paper, and/or Chemical and Petrochemical preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of industrial and utility applications for services, repairs and products preferred.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

More about us

ABB's Service Division partners with our customers to improve the availability, reliability, predictability and sustainability of electrical products and installations. The Division's extensive service portfolio offers product care, modernization, and advisory services to improve performance, extend equipment lifetime and deliver new levels of operational and sustainable efficiency. We help customers keep resources in use for as long as possible, extracting the maximum value from them, and then recovering and regenerating products and materials at the end of their useful life.

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