Sales Development Leader

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Sales Development Leader driving ABB electrical-products growth across South Texas. Expanding indirect channels, advancing strategic opportunities, and strengthening agency and distributor performance.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive district-wide growth execution across Houston, Central and South TX, and Beaumont
  • Identify ecosystem opportunities and accelerate pull-through demand
  • Deploy growth initiatives and improve strategic opportunity visibility
  • Develop agency sales capabilities
  • Identify strategic market opportunities and expand project visibility
  • Develop growth plans for underpenetrated segments
  • Lead initiatives increasing demand, distributor sales, shelf space, stocking levels, and market share
  • Partner with agency sales teams to identify, prioritize, pursue, and advance major projects
  • Ensure disciplined pipeline management, resource alignment, and timely removal of barriers throughout the opportunity lifecycle
  • Coach and onboard agency and channel partners
  • Share best practices and lead collaborative growth planning
  • Strengthen opportunity creation, ecosystem engagement, distributor partnerships, and sales effectiveness
  • Align agency organizations, district leadership, Market Development Managers, Industrial Sales Specialists, and ABB business units
  • Deploy market strategies, support key pursuits, and achieve district growth objectives
  • Report to the Regional Vice President, Gulf

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience in industrial sales, channel development, business development, strategic growth, or comparable commercial leadership roles
  • Strong foundation in commercial strategy and customer engagement, preferably in the Electrical Industry
  • Proven success driving growth through indirect sales channels, including partnerships with manufacturers’ representatives, distributors, and other channel stakeholders
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and execute growth strategies, market expansion initiatives, and strategic opportunity programs that deliver measurable business results
  • Strong business acumen, analytical capabilities, and influencing skills
  • Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and achieve results in a matrixed organization without direct authority
  • Excellent communication, organizational, and relationship-building skills
  • Ability to travel up to 40% throughout the district
  • Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US

Benefits:

  • Bonus eligible
  • 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: Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
  • Employee discount program
  • 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
  • Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
  • 11 paid holidays
  • Vacation under a permissive time away policy for salaried exempt positions