Business Development Manager – Turnaround Strategy and Origination

Koch Engineered Solutions; Baton Rouge (LA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Job summary

Koch Engineered Solutions is seeking a Business Development Manager specialized in Turnaround Strategy and Origination. This role requires a strong background in business development within industrial services and a track record of creating new market opportunities. You will engage with decision-makers long before formal requests for quotation (RFQs) while collaborating on new business across Turnaround Services.

Ideal candidates will excel in developing strategies aligned with customer needs while having the ability to navigate long sales cycles. An option to work from one of our facilities in Baton Rouge, Houston, or Wichita adds flexibility to this position.

Qualifications

• Experience in business development, strategic sales, or commercial origination within industrial services.
• Proven ability to create a pipeline and win business that was not previously in play.
• Demonstrated track record of engaging with industrial end users and decision-makers.

Responsibilities

• Develop creative solutions and align customer needs with competitive advantages.
• Identify and pursue new market whitespace before formal demand exists.
• Build relationships and map decision-makers across target accounts.

Skills

Business development

Strategic sales

Relationship building

Market analysis

Data synthesis

Job description

Overview

Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS), a Koch Engineered Solutions Company, is adding a Business Development Manager – Turnaround Strategy and Origination to our Commercial team. This role will be based at one of our facilities in Houston, TX, Wichita, KS, or Baton Rouge, LA.

This is a national overlay role designed for someone who creates turnaround opportunities before they appear in the pipeline, through relationships, collaboration, research, data analysis, and market insight, not by managing accounts we already serve.

This role is distinct from regional account management roles. Regional Account Managers protect and grow day-to-day turnaround relationships at their plants. This role works across territories—studying turnaround cycles, schedules, and industry trends to surface scope, timing, and opportunities that don’t show up in day-to-day account work. You will operate at the market level in refining, petrochemical, and chemicals, engaging decision-makers 18–36 months ahead of a formal RFQ.

You will originate and shape new business across Turnaround Services. You’ll collaborate internally, engage with key decision-makers long before a formal RFQ surfaces—turnaround opportunities for new and existing customers, building pipelines, and translating our technical capabilities into market-winning value propositions. This role is nationwide, aligned to market and capability rather than a single region or site.

This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship.

About KSPS

KSPS is the industry expert in installation, inspection, and technical project services for tower, vessel, combustion, and mass transfer equipment in the refining and chemicals industry. We support customers across the full lifecycle of construction and turnaround projects, helping reduce downtime, improve reliability, and drive long-term operational performance.

What You Will Do

Commercial Strategy

• Develop creative solutions and value propositions that align customer needs with our competitive advantages
• Lead sales strategy development—defining where to play and how to win across markets, customers, and service lines

Opportunity Creation & Pipeline Development

• Identify and pursue new market whitespace before formal demand exists—building pipeline without relying on inbound opportunities
• Develop and manage a long-cycle pursuit pipeline across target markets and customers
• Shape demand early in the customer planning cycle—engaging at pre-RFQ stages to influence scope and competitive positioning

Customer & Market Engagement

• Build relationships and map decision-makers across target accounts in refining, petrochemical, and chemicals markets
• Engage with industry networks to develop new channels and strategic partnerships
• Gather and apply voice-of-customer insights to shape commercial strategy and differentiated service offerings

Research, Data Analysis & Turnaround Intelligence

• Build and maintain a forward-looking map of industry turnaround schedules and cycles to anticipate where major scope will emerge
• Leverage and synthesize data from KSPS market analysis and commercial operations to surface patterns, underpenetrated accounts, and recurring whitespace the regional view can miss
• Track market trends—regulatory drivers, unit/capacity changes, reliability and feedstock shifts, decarbonization and retrofit activity—and translate into turnaround opportunities
• Develop data-driven account and market prioritization: where to play, where we’re already first-choice, and where competitors are exposed
• Produce opportunity briefs and trend analyses that give leadership foresight

Internal Leadership & Collaboration

• Bring the right subject matter experts into the right conversations to advance pursuits
• Partner across organizational capabilities to integrate long-cycle opportunities into execution plans
• Represent the voice of the market internally—translating customer and market intelligence into actionable strategies

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in business development, strategic sales, or commercial origination within industrial services
• Demonstrated ability to build pipeline and win business that was not previously in play
• Proven track record engaging decision-makers with industrial end users
• Comfort operating in long, ambiguous sales cycles (1–3+ years) with limited structure or inbound support
• Ability to leverage and synthesize market, sales, and pipeline data to develop strategic plans and roadmaps
• Willingness to travel up to 50% nationally

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience and credibility in the industrial turnaround / plant construction space
• Established network across refining, petrochemical, chemicals
• Background in demand shaping, solution selling, origination
• Experience developing and executing multi-year go-to-market strategies in new or adjacent markets

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. Compensation ranges are estimates based on market data. Final amounts depend on candidate knowledge, skills, abilities, and location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter.

Hiring Philosophy

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

Who We Are

As a Koch Engineered Solutions company, Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS) provides code welding work related to repair, revamp, replacement and field fabrication of towers and vessels, piping and specialty welding, mass transfer equipment installation, inspection and professional project services. We empower employees to unleash their potential and create value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our benefits plan includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Benefits vary by geographic region. Please speak to your recruiter for applicability.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Some offers may be conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. See the E-Verify information here.