Business Development Manager – Energy
Phoenix Contact USA · Phoenix, AZ · 1 wk ago
On-siteBusiness DevelopmentFull-time
Responsibilities
- Manage business development efforts within the Applications & Engineered Projects Hub, ensuring alignment with segment and industry strategies.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and industry teams to develop tailored customer solutions and respond to market needs.
- Utilize CRM and enablement tools to manage pursuits, track performance, and maintain visibility across opportunities.
- Maintain accountability for KPIs and OKRs related to hub strategy execution and customer engagement.
- Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture focused on excellence, knowledge sharing, and customer value.
- Apply sales acumen across multiple disciplines—including Critical Infrastructure, Applications, and Engineered Projects—leveraging transferable skills to support solution development.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand and adapt to discipline-specific requirements, including process-focused and infrastructure environments.
- Align role execution with segment strategy as defined by Industry Managers, ensuring consistency with broader business objectives.
- Technical acumen to serve as a subject matter expert within a focused segment area, contributing insights and guidance to strategic initiatives and customer solutions.
- Support localization and execution of global segment strategies, maintaining awareness of leadership direction (e.g., German-led initiatives).
- Demonstrate professional expertise in assigned segment, providing mentorship and technical leadership as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned by leadership to support evolving business needs.
Qualifications
- 5–10 years of experience in business development, engineering projects, or technical sales.
- Strong understanding of engineered solutions and application-based selling.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience with CRM platforms and sales enablement tools.
- Engineering discipline with sales experience preferred.
- Demonstrates a willingness to collaborate with others, build relationships, and involve others in decision making.
- Demonstrates the ability to deliver results by solving or supporting others in solving problems, prioritizing tasks, and/or resources, and focusing on outcomes.
- Demonstrates self-awareness and the willingness to learn and grow, accept changes, and effectively adapt to changing work demands.
- Demonstrates the ability to drive customer value through knowledge of the business, putting effort into identifying customer needs, and delivering work to maximize the value for customers.
- Demonstrates a willingness to promote the value of improvement and innovation by staying ahead of trends, creating ideas and opportunities, and generating speed.
- Demonstrates a willingness to take ownership by making decisions, taking responsibility, and driving things forward.