Managing Director, Commercial Origination Remote, United States

AMP Robotics Corp.; Mississippi; Remote; USD 195,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Managing Director for Commercial Origination and Business Development. This pivotal role involves driving growth in sales of innovative sortation systems and services across the western United States. You will leverage your extensive experience in originating and negotiating commercial agreements to build strong relationships with public and private sector customers. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional strategic thinking, project management skills, and the ability to influence technology adoption. Join a forward-thinking company committed to modernizing recycling infrastructure and making a meaningful impact in the waste management industry.

Benefits

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Flexible Time Off

Life Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Stock Option Grant

Qualifications

• 12-15+ years of experience in commercial agreements and business development.
• Strong consultative selling skills with project management abilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive new sales of AMP sortation systems and manage a pipeline of deals.
• Develop relationships and operationalize go-to-market strategies.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Project Management

Consultative Selling

Financial Modeling

Negotiation

Relationship Building

Team Leadership

Job description

Managing Director, Commercial Origination

Remote, United States

AMP is applying AI-powered sortation at scale to modernize the world's recycling infrastructure and maximize the value in waste. AMP gives waste and recycling leaders the power to harness AI to reduce labor costs, increase resource recovery, and deliver more reliable operations. With hundreds of deployments across North America, Asia, and Europe, AMP’s technology offers a transformational solution to waste sortation and changes the fundamental economics of recycling.

Headquartered in Louisville, Colorado, the Denver Post and BuiltIn Colorado have recognized AMP as one of the state's top workplaces. AMP has operations and career opportunities outside of Atlanta, Cleveland, Portsmouth, Virginia, and Europe. We’re fostering an environment where passionate individuals can grow and create impact. We seek unconventional thinkers to join our mission to enable a world without waste; at AMP, your contributions have meaning and can spur change. With backing from top-tier investors and national recognition including North American Cleantech Company of the Year, we’re always seeking ways to better our operations, raising the bar on innovation, and looking to collaborate and improve in what we do. Learn more at AMPSortation.com.

AMP is hiring a Managing Director, Commercial Origination & Business Development reporting to the VP, Commercial who can be REMOTE in the contiguous United States. We prefer this person to be in the western region of the US.

The Managing Director will drive the growth of new sales of AMP ONE sortation systems and AMP’s sortation-as-a-service offering to public sector and private sector customers across the western US by managing a pipeline of deals from origination through close.

As our Managing Director, you will work to:

• Develop new relationships and leverage your existing industry relationships to source deals, build a pipeline, move through a business development funnel, structure deals, and execute agreements.
• Become an expert in AMP’s offering, able to present compelling AMP product solutions to a range of customers.
• Operationalize go-to-market strategies.
• Identify strategic partnerships and potential integrations with key accounts.
• Monitor and analyze market trends, industry developments, regulations, and incentives with an ability to quickly articulate value creation opportunities.
• Financially model opportunities from AMP and customer perspectives and leverage understanding of deals to maximize value throughout the negotiation process.
• Build strong relationships with private and public partners and stakeholders to maximize opportunities for repeat projects within high-value, target regions.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 1-4 other regional originators.

The successful candidate will have:

Required:

• 12-15+ years of experience, including direct experience originating, structuring, and negotiating commercial agreements.
• Excellent strategic thinking complemented by an attention to the details required to execute an agreement.
• Experience generating leads for new business.
• Ability to build and use project-level financial models to evaluate prospective projects and drive executive-level decision making.
• Strong consultative/value selling skills and ability to influence innovation and new technology adoption in customer organizations.
• Project and process management abilities that are demonstrated by successfully managing multiple complex efforts simultaneously across geographies and/or organizations.
• Ability to successfully challenge, educate, and evangelize customers.
• Ability to engage and pitch to C-suite roles at waste majors.
• Experience managing a successful team of sales and business development professionals.
• Ability to represent the company in public meetings and form productive relationships with public officials and other project stakeholders.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams from engineering, operations, and finance departments to create a successful project.
• Demonstrated agility and ability to be adaptive, with a high willingness to learn.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, capable of tailoring to varied audiences.

Working Conditions/Physical Demands:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.

Working Location(s):

• Full-remote with frequent travel across western US.

Travel Requirements:

• 50%.

Salary & Compensation Information: $195,000 - $217,000 per year.

Equity Grant: The candidate selected for this role will be recommended for a stock option grant commensurate with the position and the candidate’s qualifications.

Benefits Information:

• Medical - The company covers between 78% to 100% of the premium for Cigna medical healthcare plans depending on the selection.
• Dental, Vision, Short and Long Term Disability.
• Life Insurance: The company covers the cost of Basic Life / AD&D 1 x Salary, option to purchase additional through New York Life.
• Benefits start the day you start.
• HSA Eligible Health Plans, Employer Monthly Contributions on Dependent and Individual Plans.
• 401(k) retirement plan (non-matching).
• FTO - Flexible Time Off.

AMP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Applicants who identify with a historically underrepresented group are encouraged to apply.