Sales Position at ABB Smart Buildings

About ABB

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About the Role

ABB Smart Buildings enables optimization of energy efficiency, safety, security and comfort for any building type, through new installations or retrofit solutions. The Division offers integrated digital technologies to control HVAC, lighting, shutters, and security, in addition to energy distribution solutions including DIN rail products, enclosures and emergency lighting through to industrial plugs and sockets and conventional wiring accessories, accommodating for single family homes, multiple dwellings, commercial buildings, infrastructure and industrial applications.

The Division's highly innovative technologies and digital solutions serve rising global demand among real estate developers, owners, and investors for smart building technologies that optimize energy distribution and building automation. The scalable solutions aim to deliver significant sustainable and financial benefits, meeting social and environmental demands, while being able to address even the most complex of customers' carbon reduction strategies.

Position Details

Reports to: Global Sales Manager

Work Model: Hybrid

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for the sales of products/systems/services within a designated market/division, in line with the division strategy. Each day, you will achieve both qualitative and quantitative sales targets to ensure sustainable order growth, revenues, profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction.

You will mainly be accountable for:

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with assigned electrical contractors, at all levels of their organizations and educating customer base about differentiating products with technical presentations
• Plan and implement sales strategies to maximize market share and margin by identifying and tracking upcoming sales opportunities and influence customer specifications to favor ABB and introduce new products to existing customer base and identify target customers
• Meet or exceed assigned volume and margin measurements through the understanding of market pricing to successfully close opportunities
• Perform take-off's and develop cost effective proposals from project plans and specs and negotiate and secure project orders in turn providing market feedback, competitive intelligence and hit-rate information to business and sales leadership
• Showcase your expertise by identifying and developing new sales opportunities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (Preferably in Engineering / Business) with minimum 6 years experience OR Associate's Degree with minimum 8 years experience
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US

Preferred Experience

• Minimum 5 years sales experience / knowledge quoting and/or selling commercial, industrial and residential projects to electrical contractors
• Experience tracking sales leads, wins and losses in CRM system (Salesforce) and performing analysis on hit-rate data
• Electrical industry product sales working with electrical contractors and industry knowledge as a whole

Team Dynamics

You will join a dynamic, talented, and high performing team, where you will be able to thrive.

Why ABB

Working at ABB gives you the opportunity to contribute to a healthier and more prosperous world. Add to your story by joining a passionate team, focused on pushing the boundaries of technology to drive performance, shape new business models and find new ways of working that benefit our customers, partners and society.

We Care

At ABB, we care about our people and their stories. We create safe, fair, equitable and inclusive working environments in which our people can succeed and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural, religious or social background. Diverse teams make us stronger. ABB is also committed to a high standard of integrity in everything we do.

We Grow

We help our people succeed and develop, and we empower them to create their own careers at ABB. Our benefits, reward and development programs encompass a wide array of offerings.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

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