Sales Specialist, Channel

ABB Inc.; Town of Texas (WI); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k plan

Paid holidays

Employee discount

Job summary

ABB is hiring a District Sales role in the US to lead distributor and contractor relationships and drive order growth. This position reports to a District Sales Manager and operates with a hybrid model in San Antonio, TX, including remote work options.

You will plan sales strategies to maximize market share and margins while maintaining customer satisfaction. Qualified candidates have 3+ years of sales experience with a Bachelor's degree (or 5+ years with a GED).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 3+ years sales experience, or GED/HS diploma with 5+ years sales experience.
• Ability to travel to customer sites weekly.
• Engineering or Business Management background preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the US for ABB.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with distributors to set future sales targets and strategies, ensuring targets are met or exceeded.
• Communicate with customers about delivery times, payments, and terms in line with ABB offering and strategy.
• Identify and drive development of new market opportunities in the designated market.
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with electrical contractors at all levels of their organizations; monitor pricing agreement utilization.

Skills

Sales experience

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree

GED/HS diploma with 5+ years sales experience

Job description

At ABB, we help industries run leaner and cleaner-and every person here makes that happen. You'll be empowered to lead, supported to grow, and proud of the impact we create together. Join us and help run what runs the world.

This position reports to:

District Sales Manager

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In this role, you will have the opportunity to serve as the primary interface between distributor/commercial contractor customer and ABB. Each day, you will achieve both qualitative and quantitative sales targets to ensure sustainable order growth, revenues, profitability, market share, and customer satisfaction. You will also plan and implement sales strategies to maximize market share and margin and motivate Electrical contractors to prefer ABB industrial solutions over the competition.

The work model for the role is in San Antonio, TX, Remote. #Li-Remote

This role is contributing to the Electrification Smart Buildings division in North America.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Collaborate with distributors to set future sales targets and strategies, maintain objectives throughout year, ensuring targets are met and/or exceeded
• Communicating to the customers about details related to delivery time, payments, and general terms and conditions, in line with ABB's offering and strategy.
• Identifying and driving the development of new market opportunities in the designated market.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with assigned electrical contractors, at all levels of their organizations; monitor pricing agreement utilization and adjust plans as needed.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university/college with 3+ years of sales experience or GED/High School Diploma with 5+ years sales experience.
• Ability to travel to customer sites on a weekly basis.
• An educational background in Engineering or Business Management is preferred.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

ABB Smart Power provides energy distribution solutions for data centers, industrial and manufacturing plants, critical infrastructure and commercial buildings. The Division's technical teams work closely with industry partners, delivering advanced solutions that support rapid growth, energy transition, and sustainability objectives. The Division's portfolio includes industrial circuit breakers, low-voltage systems, motor starting applications, and safety devices like switches and relays. Its Power Protection unit supports the world's largest data center companies with advanced energy-efficient UPS solutions. The Division's ABB Ability Energy Manager provides a scalable, easy-to-use platform that helps organizations save energy and reduce CO2 emissions.

More about us

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affiantive Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their- sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf

As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affiantive Action Employer for Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.

Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to [e-mail]. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.

ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]

Go to www.myBenefitsABB.comand click on "Candidate/Guest" to learn more

Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan.
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D - 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability - up to 26 weeks - Company paid
• Long Term Disability - 60% of pay - Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay.
• Supplemental benefits - 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance
• Parental Leave - up to 6 weeks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time off

ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.

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