Business Development Manager - Engineered Seals

Freudenberg Group; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance Related Bonus

Personal Development

Health Insurance

Job summary

Freudenberg Flow Technologies in Houston is seeking a Business Development Manager focused on engineered seals to drive revenue growth across energy markets.

You will develop new business with OEMs, EPCs, and end users, translate customer needs into commercial opportunities, and collaborate with a global cross-functional team. This hybrid role requires a technical degree, 5–7+ years in related fields, and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing or related discipline; engineering or other technical degree preferred.
• 5–7+ years of experience in business development, technical sales, sales engineering, or strategic account management within engineered products, manufacturing, or industrial markets.
• Experience with engineered sealing solutions strongly preferred, including sealing technologies, materials, applications, and performance requirements; experience with mechanical seals, elastomers, polymers, gaskets, expansion joints, rotating equipment, fluid handling, or similar engineered products is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated success developing new business, penetrating new accounts, and converting technically complex opportunities into profitable revenue growth.
• Strong pipeline management, CRM, forecasting, negotiation, presentation, communication, and value-selling skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex and long-cycle opportunities independently.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a global, cross-functional manufacturing or engineering organization and travel domestically and internationally as required.

Skills

Pipeline management

Forecasting

Negotiation

Presentation

Communication

Market knowledge

Account development

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or related discipline

Tools

CRM software

ERP systems

Job description

Working at Freudenberg: "We will wow your world!" This is our promise. As a global technology group, we not only make the world cleaner, healthier and more comfortable, but also offer our 52,000 employees a networked and diverse environment where everyone can thrive individually. Be surprised and experience your own wow moments.
Freudenberg Flow Technologies is a global provider of critical sealing and connector solutions, niche products and services to the global energy market — including oil and gas, renewables and alternatives. Our strengths in material science, application knowledge, design capabilities and manufacturing capacity, combined with our differentiated product portfolio, are supported by our focus on providing the highest level of customer service. Our employees serve a range of customers including oil and gas production companies, OEMs and engineering and service companies.

Some of your Benefits

• Performance Related Bonus
• Personal Development
• Health Insurance

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Hybrid Work

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You support our team as

Business Development Manager - Engineed Seals

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related technical or commercial discipline; engineering or other technical degree preferred.
• 5–7+ years of experience in business development, technical sales, sales engineering, or strategic account management within engineered products, manufacturing, or industrial markets.
• Experience with engineered sealing solutions strongly preferred, including sealing technologies, materials, applications, and performance requirements; experience with mechanical seals, elastomers, polymers, gaskets, expansion joints, rotating equipment, fluid handling, or similar engineered products is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated success developing new business, penetrating new accounts, and converting technically complex opportunities into profitable revenue growth.
• Strong technical aptitude with the ability to understand customer applications, operating conditions, specifications, drawings, and performance requirements and translate them into commercial opportunities.
• Experience building relationships and working directly with OEMs, end users, engineering organizations, EPCs, distributors, and technical and commercial decision-makers.
• Strong pipeline management, CRM, forecasting, negotiation, presentation, communication, and value-selling skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex and long-cycle opportunities independently.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within a global, cross-functional manufacturing or engineering organization and travel domestically and internationally as required.
• The Freudenberg Group has a long-standing policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination employment. It is Freudenberg Oil & Gas Technologies’ policy not to discriminate against any individual employed by us, or any applicant for employment, based on race, color, ancestry, place of origin, religious beliefs, gender, age, physical disability, mental disability, marital status, family status or sexual orientation.

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.