Sales Executive, Battery Testing

UL Solutions; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 109,000 - 136,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401K

Paid time off

Job summary

UL Solutions seeks an experienced sales professional to develop new business in the EV battery market. This remote role requires travel and involves prospecting, qualifying needs, and closing deals.

You will maintain a robust pipeline, coordinate with engineering and product teams, and ensure smooth transition to delivery after sale. A bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of sales experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or graduate degree in engineering or related field preferred.
• 2+ years of related sales experience.
• Deep knowledge and experience with EV Battery industry.
• Proven ability to meet and exceed sales targets.
• Proficient in MS Office and CRM software.

Responsibilities

• Develop new business within the territory through prospecting, customer engagement, opportunity identification, and expansion of existing customer relationships.
• Build, maintain, and actively progress a healthy sales pipeline aligned with assigned sales targets.
• Maintain accurate and timely opportunity, pipeline, next-step, and forecast information in Salesforce.
• Develop and execute territory and account plans that identify priority customers, growth opportunities, and actions required to progress business.
• Lead customer discovery to understand business and technical needs and position appropriate UL Solutions services.
• Partner with engineering, operations, technical experts, and other internal stakeholders to support customer needs and progress opportunities through the sales cycle.
• Maintain consistent customer follow-up and ownership of sales opportunities from identification through close and transition to delivery.
• Identify risks, competitive activity, market developments, and emerging customer needs within the assigned territory and communicate relevant insights to sales leadership.
• Participate in regular pipeline, forecast, account planning, and sales strategy discussions.

Skills

Sales experience

EV Battery industry knowledge

CRM software

Education

Bachelor's or graduate degree in engineering or related field

Tools

MS Office

CRM software

Job description

• Candidates must reside in Southeast US.
• This is a remote position requiring significant travel.
• Supports planning of sales strategy and maintains ongoing plan to prioritize portfolio of accounts and maintain relationships throughout the year. Interfaces with customers primarily remotely (video, phone, email) to promote and sell UL products and services.
• Uses technical credibility to build relationships with buyers and centers of influence.
• Under moderate level of guidance, drives sales process from beginning to end, leveraging support from Sales Support Specialists and Inside Sales Executives when necessary.
• Follows up with customer to ensure renewal of services where applicable.
• Actions on opportunities to sell specialty product / services.
• Meets with new logo prospects from inbound and outbound channels to qualify their needs, understand decision-makers, and land new customers.
• Supports discovery, opportunity identification, proposals, and closing for sales of core UL products and services.
• Leverages technical support (engineers) when customer has a qualified need.
• Creates and maintains pipeline of new logo prospects to supplement existing account activities, owns new logo process through close of sale.
• Brings in additional resources when advantageous to support sales process, and delegates leadership of the sale to Technical Inside Sales Executives for highly technical or specialized products / services.
• Transitions implementation to success / fulfillment teams after sales have been closed to ensure seamless service delivery.
• Where applicable, supports development of GAM and SAM multi-year account plans in TIC by providing insight on area of specialization (specific product/ service).
• Supports remaining account managers on discovery and opportunity identification for assigned specialty products / services.
• Works under the close guidance of account managers (GAMs, SAMs) to seamlessly work with customers throughout the sales cycle.
• Provides any necessary information to SAM and GAM during account planning process on potential growth opportunities within assigned solution area.

Responsibilities

• Develop new business within the territory through prospecting, customer engagement, opportunity identification, and expansion of existing customer relationships.
• Build, maintain, and actively progress a healthy sales pipeline aligned with assigned sales targets.
• Maintain accurate and timely opportunity, pipeline, next-step, and forecast information in Salesforce.
• Develop and execute territory and account plans that identify priority customers, growth opportunities, and actions required to progress business.
• Lead customer discovery to understand business and technical needs and position appropriate UL Solutions services.
• Partner with engineering, operations, technical experts, and other internal stakeholders to support customer needs and progress opportunities through the sales cycle.
• Maintain consistent customer follow-up and ownership of sales opportunities from identification through close and transition to delivery.
• Identify risks, competitive activity, market developments, and emerging customer needs within the assigned territory and communicate relevant insights to sales leadership.
• Participate in regular pipeline, forecast, account planning, and sales strategy discussions.

Qualifications

• Bachelors and/or graduate degree in engineering or related field preferred.
• 2+ years of related sales experience
• Deep knowledge and experience with EV Battery industry
• Proven ability to meet and exceed sales targets.
• Business acumen and deep understanding of business sales processes.
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), and CRM software.

What we offer:

• Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated annual compensation for this position is $108,500. - 135,625. which includes a base salary of $70,000 - $87,500 and 100% on target performance. Members of the sales function are eligible to participate in the UL Solutions Sales Incentive Plan. The annual target incentive for this position is 55% of the base salary, paid quarterly, and is contingent upon performance. Compensation is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors.
• This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
• The application deadline for this position is 5/3/2027