Solution Line Manager - Energy

About the role

As a Solution Line Manager for Energy, you will be pivotal in shaping and delivering Belden’s complete connectivity solutions for modern OT/IT converged environments. You will go deep into customer problems, understand the role of networks and use of data in solving those problems, and create the positioning and system requirements that guide solution architects in designing bills of materials to address complex challenges.

You will lead strategic planning, development, and lifecycle management of solutions that enhance efficiency, reliability, and intelligence within your sector. Flexible work options are available (Remote/Hybrid, with travel as required).

You will make a difference in the following ways:

• Actionable Solution Requirements: Translate customer problems and sector insights into actionable, prioritized requirements for solution architects and product teams, ensuring solutions address real market needs.
• Vertical Market Content: Develop and maintain clear, compelling pitchbooks for your sector, equipping sales teams with validated value propositions, customer use cases, and competitive differentiation.
• Solution Line Card & Positioning: Create and update a solution line card with clear positioning statements, guiding sales and commercial teams on where to focus and how to articulate value in the vertical.
• Validated & Tested Solutions: Deliver solutions that are not only designed but also validated and tested in real-world environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and customer confidence.
• Continuous Solution Improvement: Gather feedback from commercial teams and customers to drive ongoing enhancements, ensuring solutions remain relevant and competitive.

Responsibilities

• Build deep relationships with customers and develop a nuanced understanding of sector-specific operations, pain points, and opportunities for innovation.
• Thrive in ambiguous environments, actively build new solutions and approaches, and drive the development of innovative connectivity and networking offerings.
• Manage the full lifecycle of solutions within your sector, from concept and requirements to launch, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
• Work closely with Solution Architects, Commercial teams, and Product Managers to ensure solutions are technically feasible, market-ready, and effectively positioned.

Requirements

Experience in any Energy segment is welcome, including:

• Generation (thermal, hydro, nuclear, renewables)
• Transmission
• Distribution / Power Delivery
• Emerging technologies (e.g., grid-scale storage (BESS, SMRs)

Preferred technical experience includes one or more of the following:

• Cybersecurity for OT/IT Converged Networks: Understanding of industrial cybersecurity concepts (e.g., segmentation, secure access, monitoring) and how they translate into solution requirements for critical infrastructure environments.
• Digital Substations & IEC 61850 Applications: Familiarity with digital substation architectures and IEC 61850-based protection, automation, and control use cases, including operational needs and integration considerations.
• PTP Time Synchronization (IEEE 1588): Knowledge of precise time distribution principles and deployment considerations in mission-critical networks, including common architectures and profiles used in industrial environments.
• Networking Across WAN/LAN/FAN: Solid background in networking fundamentals across wide-area (e.g., MPLS-TP), local-area (Ethernet), and field-area (wireless) environments, including reliability, redundancy, and performance drivers

Qualifications

• 8+ years of direct experience in the relevant vertical sector.

Skills

• Customer Intimacy & Sector Expertise: Build deep relationships with customers and develop a nuanced understanding of sector-specific operations, pain points, and opportunities for innovation.
• Builder Mindset & Solution Creation: Thrive in ambiguous environments, actively build new solutions and approaches, and drive the development of innovative connectivity and networking offerings.
• Portfolio Management & Lifecycle Ownership: Manage the full lifecycle of solutions within your sector, from concept and requirements to launch, adoption, and ongoing improvement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Solution Architects, Commercial teams, and Product Managers to ensure solutions are technically feasible, market-ready, and effectively positioned.

Benefits

Base compensation range: $130K-$170K, plus benefits and additional incentives based on the level of the role. This is the reasonable estimate that Belden believes it might pay for this job based on applicable circumstances at the time of posting. Belden may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law, and commensurate with the applicant’s experience, qualifications, and geographical location.

Belden also offers hybrid and remote work practices where feasible and provides employees with benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives and a work culture which includes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability!