Associate Business Development

Koch Business Solutions, LP; Scottsdale (AZ); Remote; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, seeks an Associate, Business Development to grow the Services business unit with new and existing customers across the asset lifecycle.

The role can be based in Scottsdale, AZ or remote within the U.S. and requires 25–50% travel. Visa sponsorship is not available. Compensation ranges from $90,000 to $140,000 annually with potential for variable pay.

Qualifications

• Experience in business development, sales, account management, customer success, or other customer-facing roles.
• Experience using structured analysis, market insights, stakeholder communication, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States without visa sponsorship.
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Understand solar and BESS services markets and use data to prioritize opportunities.
• Support organic sales growth by identifying prospects and developing relationships.
• Collaborate with customers to understand needs and develop solutions for maintenance and service opportunities.
• Capture feedback and insights to improve sales processes and offerings.
• Support proposal development, pricing, deal reviews, negotiations, and contracting.
• Partner with DEPCOM Business Development and cross-functional teams to deliver a coordinated customer experience.
• Develop value-based proposals aligning capabilities with customer outcomes.
• Participate in meetings, site visits, trade shows, and industry events to build relationships.

Skills

Business Development

Sales

Account Management

Customer Success

Cross-functional Collaboration

Education

Business/Economics/Engineering education

Job description

Your Job

DEPCOM Power, a Koch Engineered Solutions company, is looking for an Associate, Business Development for its rapidly expanding Services Business Unit.We seek a highly contribution-motivated individual bringing transferable experience, curiosity and initiative from an adjacent customer-facing or commercial environment.In this role, you will buildskills while learning our business to identify and advance business opportunities with new and existing customers where our capabilities can create superior value. Join our team and use a principled approach to support strong, long-term client relationships based on trust and integrity

This role can be in based in Scottsdale, AZ or remotely within the U.S. and will require 25-50% travel to accomplish business objectives.

This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Our Team

At Koch Industries, our Principle Based Management philosophy is at the center of how we do business, and as an employee, you will begin your journey of understanding and applying the way we do business in your everyday work.

What You Will Do

• Understand the solar and BESS services markets and use customer, market, and internal data to help prioritize business development opportunities consistent with short- and long-range commercial plans (O&M, Repowering, Restoration, etc.).
• Support organic sales growth by identifying prospects, preparing for customer outreach, and developing relationships with new and existing customers over their full asset lifecycle.
• Collaborate with customers to understand their needs and develop creative solutions for maintenance and service opportunities for their solar and BESS assets - promoting long term partnerships built on trust
• Capture customer feedback, competitive insights, and lessons learned, and translate them into recommendations to improve the sales process and Services offerings.
• Support proposal development, pricing, deal reviews, negotiations, and contracting by coordinating inputs from internal capabilities and subject matter experts.
• Partner with DEPCOM Business Development and cross-functional teams to deliver a coordinated customer experience and promote DEPCOM's One Source Solution philosophy.
• Develop value-based proposals that align DEPCOM's differentiated capabilities with customer economic outcomes.
• Participate in customer meetings, site visits, trade shows, and industry events to build relationships, strengthen market knowledge, and represent DEPCOM's capabilities and brand.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Professional experience in business development, sales, account management, customer success, or another customer-facing role with transferable commercial responsibilities.
• Experience using structured analysis, market insights, stakeholder communication, and cross-functional collaboration to support customer, operational, project, or commercial objectives
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship now or in the future
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time based on business needs

What Will Put You Ahead (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience in the power, renewable energy, utility-scale solar, BESS, EPC, O&M, industrial services, or another related technical industry.
• Exposure to energy markets or customer types such as utilities, independent power producers, developers, or asset owners.
• Experience supporting proposals, pricing analysis, commercial negotiations, contracts, or customer presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to learn technical products or services and communicate their value to customers.
• Education and/or prior roles in business, engineering, finance, economics, marketing, or a related field.

For this role, we anticipate paying $90,000 - $140,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, DEPCOM Power is a leading energy solutions partner for the utility solar and broader energy industries, providing project development support, engineering, procurement and construction, energy storage, repowering and operations and maintenance services. Our highly skilled team of conventional and renewable power industry experts work to deliver the lowest cost of energy and the highest rate of return.

Our Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test.

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