ABB Ltd

Business Development Manager - LA Metro

ABB Ltd$100K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in California, US
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Business or STEM preferred
  • Minimum 5 years of sales or marketing experience in electrical distribution services
  • Knowledge of electrical power studies, switchgear, circuit breakers, and protective relaying
  • Ability to build and manage customer relationships
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Self-starter with a positive attitude and team contribution
  • Proven success in acquiring new customers or expanding market presence

Responsibilities

  • Develop tactical and strategic customer plans to achieve sales and margins
  • Drive growth of ABB EL Services portfolio in the Los Angeles area
  • Identify, develop, and close sales opportunities
  • Engage directly with end customers and leverage sales channels
  • Promote upgrades, retrofits, and value-add solutions to customers
  • Prepare and review sales plans to align with channel strategy
  • Generate leads and explore new market opportunities for service sales

Benefits

  • Choice of medical plan options including PPO and HDHP
  • Two dental plan options available
  • Vision benefits included
  • Company-paid life and AD&D insurance
  • Short Term and Long Term Disability paid by the company
  • Parental leave of up to 6 weeks
  • Employee Assistance Program for mental and behavioral health support
  • 401k Savings Plan with company contributions
  • Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
  • 11 paid holidays and permissive vacation policy
Full Job Description
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 within the Los Angeles metro area.

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.

While this is a remote position, successful candidates will be located within the Los Angeles metro area.

This role is contributing to the Electrification Services Division in the United States.

You will be mainly accountable for:
  • Penetrating into IB, promoting various upgrades, retrofits, and value-add solutions to the benefit of the customers and ABB.
  • Understanding the channel strategy and the establishment of related prices, and preparing sales plans, reviewing them, and proposing recovery plan(s) when needed.
  • Generating service sales leads and developing new market opportunities by utilizing market trend information and through identifying and exploring potential new service portfolios.
  • Acting as a marketer/salesperson of ABB's service products and solutions during marketing activities (campaigns, trade fairs, exhibitions, conferences, customer meetings).


Qualifications for the role:
  • Bachelors degree in Business or STEM strongly preferred.
  • Minimum 5 years of experience years of experience in sales or marketing within electrical distribution services industry.
  • Sound knowledge of electrical power studies, switchgear, circuit breakers and protective relaying and the industrial, commercial and utility market
  • The ability to develop and manage customer relationships
  • A collaborative, solution-focused approach, and strong written and spoken communication skills
  • Self-starter, energetic and positive contributor to the team environment
  • Demonstrated success in developing new customer volume / trade area
  • Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.


ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]

Go to MyBenefitsABB.com and click on "Candidate/Guest" to learn more

Health, Life & Disability
  • Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
  • Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
  • Vision benefit
  • Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
  • Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
  • Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
  • Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
  • Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
  • Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
  • Parental Leave - up to 6 weeks
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
  • Employee discount program


Retirement
  • 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
  • Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)


Time off
  • ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.


While base salary is determined by things such as the successful applicant's qualifications and experience, this position is expected to pay between $100,500 and $160,800 annually and is eligible for a short-term incentive plan/annual bonus.

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About ABB Ltd

ABB Ltd is a Swiss multinational corporation that specializes in electrical equipment. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. ABB operates in a variety of industries, including power generation, transmission, and distribution, as well as automation and robotics. The company's products and services are used in a range of applications, from electric vehicles to renewable energy systems. ABB has a global presence, with operations in more than 100 countries. The company is committed to sustainability and has set ambitious targets for reducing its environmental impact.
Learn more about ABB Ltd
Size
104,400 employees
Market Cap
$59.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$5.1 billion
Founded
1988
5 Year Trend
+3%
Revenue
$26.1 billion
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