Business Development Manager-Flow Control

AWC$100K — $120K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in business development or sales within industrial products or engineered solutions.
  • Strong technical expertise in control valves, isolation valves, actuation, and related technologies.
  • Proven track record of developing growth strategies for accounts and markets.
  • Ability to analyze sales, pipeline, and market data effectively.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with a focus on influencing diverse stakeholders.
  • Willingness to travel frequently to cover territories effectively.
  • Experience in process industries such as refining, chemical, or petrochemical.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement growth plans for Flow Control portfolio across various markets and territories.
  • Identify strategic opportunities and establish targeted sales campaigns.
  • Collaborate with account managers to advance the sales pipeline and support complex sales efforts.
  • Lead the creation of repeatable sales tools and application guides for sales teams.
  • Manage relationships and drive joint business plans with technology partners.
  • Serve as a trusted resource for Flow Control applications and facilitate internal training sessions.
  • Translate market demands into actionable recommendations for inventory and service capabilities.

Benefits

  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • 401(k) Match
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Package
  • Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
  • Life Insurance
  • Career Development Opportunities
Full Job Description
We are seeking a commercially minded and technically credible leader who can translate market opportunity into profitable growth. The successful candidate will be proactive, collaborative, intellectually curious, and capable of influencing customers, sales teams, operations leaders, and technology partners.

The Flow Control Business Development Manager is responsible for driving profitable growth of AWC's Flow Control portfolio across assigned territories and market segments. This individual will combine commercial leadership, market knowledge, technical credibility, and technology-partner management to help AWC identify, develop, and win strategic opportunities.

Working through AWC's Technical Account Managers, regional sales leaders, applications resources, operations teams, and technology partners, the BDM will develop market strategies, establish target-account priorities, create qualified pipeline, support complex opportunities, and build the capabilities required to expand AWC's position in control valves, isolation valves, actuation, severe-service applications, and related services.

Technical Account Managers will retain ownership of customer relationships and account strategy. The BDM will provide the Flow Control expertise, application-based sales strategies, repeatable sales plays, technology-partner coordination, and opportunity leadership necessary to accelerate growth across the organization.

How you'll make an impact:

LOB Growth Strategy
  • Develop and execute the Flow Control growth plan by territory, vertical market, product family, and technology partner
  • Identify market whitespace, target accounts, competitive displacement opportunities, and strategic projects
  • Establish focused sales campaigns and measurable opportunity-development objectives
  • Monitor market conditions, competitor activity, customer investment trends, and installed-base opportunities
  • Identify portfolio gaps, overlapping solutions, and emerging technology needs, and recommend appropriate product, partner, or capability additions

Sales Enablement and Opportunity Leadership
  • Work through Technical Account Managers and Regional Sales Managers to create and advance qualified pipeline
  • Participate in strategic customer meetings, discovery sessions, application reviews, and solution presentations
  • Help develop opportunity strategies, differentiated value propositions, and competitive positioning
  • Support technically and commercially complex opportunities through specification, selection, proposal, and close
  • Develop repeatable sales tools, application guides, battlecards, and customer-facing presentations

Technology-Partner Leadership
  • Develop joint business plans with assigned Flow Control technology partners
  • Coordinate training, customer activity, opportunity support, forecasting, and product launches
  • Communicate AWC market feedback, competitive intelligence, customer requirements, and capability needs
  • Hold both AWC and its partners accountable for agreed-upon growth initiatives

Technical and Market Expertise
  • Serve as a trusted Flow Control resource for customers and the AWC sales organization
  • Maintain working knowledge across control valves, isolation valves, severe-service applications, actuation, diagnostics, and related accessories
  • Lead customer and internal training on applications, selection, operation, and value
  • Coordinate deeper applications-engineering, factory, or field-service support when required

Capability and Operational Development
  • Translate market demand into recommendations for inventory, assembly, repair, testing, and field-service capabilities
  • Partner with operations and engineering to develop and launch new capabilities
  • Support standardization, training, documentation, and commercialization of new operational offerings
  • Ensure investments are supported by identifiable market demand, target accounts, expected revenue, and execution plans

Measures of Success
  • Flow Control bookings, revenue, gross profit, and growth versus plan
  • Qualified pipeline creation and pipeline coverage
  • New accounts, new applications, and competitive displacement wins
  • Growth across priority product families and vertical markets
  • Execution of partner business plans
  • Account Manager engagement and sales-team enablement
  • Conversion of strategic opportunities
  • Growth in AWC assembly, repair, inventory, and field-service pull-through
  • Effectiveness of product launches and targeted sales campaigns

Skills you'll need
  • Demonstrated success growing industrial products, engineered solutions, or services
  • Strong knowledge of control valves, isolation valves, actuation, automation accessories, or related Flow Control technologies
  • Experience developing account-, market-, or product-growth strategies
  • Ability to interpret sales, pipeline, quotation, and market data
  • Commercial understanding of pricing, margin, channel strategy, and competitive positioning
  • Ability to lead through influence across sales, operations, engineering, and technology-partner organizations
  • Strong discovery, presentation, facilitation, and executive-communication skills
  • Willingness to travel regularly throughout assigned AWC territories
  • Experience in refining, chemical, petrochemical, midstream, LNG, power, or other process industries

Here's what will set you apart
  • Experience as a Technical Account Manager, Applications Engineer, Product Manager, Business Development Manager, or similar customer-facing industrial role
  • Demonstrated ability to build productive relationships with manufacturers and technology partners
  • Familiarity with major Flow Control manufacturers-including Fisher, Flowserve, Masoneilan, Valmet, Samson, IMI, Rotork, and others-and an understanding of their relative strengths and market positioning
  • Experience launching new products, sales campaigns, inventory programs, or operational capabilities
  • Established relationships within refining, chemical, petrochemical, midstream, LNG, or power markets

The Rewards
  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
  • 401(k) Match
  • Competitive Pay
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance Package
  • Life Insurance
  • Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
  • Career Development Opportunities

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