Senior Technical Consultant – Energy & Industrial Electrification
Energy Industry Domain | Customer-Facing Advisory and Business Growth Support
Role Overview
A global engineering and technology services organization is seeking a senior, customer-facing technical consultant with deep energy-industry expertise to strengthen strategic selling and solution development for leading electrical, energy-management, and industrial-automation companies. The consultant will combine domain credibility, technology insight, and commercial acumen to shape executive conversations, identify high-value engineering opportunities, and translate customer priorities into differentiated solutions.
Engagement Model
- Employment type: Full-time employee or independent contractor/consultant
- Location: Flexible; preference for proximity to major customer locations in North America or Europe
- Travel: Approximately 25–40%, based on customer and pursuit needs
- Reporting alignment: Business leadership, with close collaboration across sales, account management, solutioning, engineering, and delivery teams
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Customer Engagement and Consultative Selling
- Serve as a trusted domain advisor in executive and technical discussions with energy-management, electrification, power-distribution, and industrial-automation customers.
- Partner with account leaders to develop account-growth strategies, shape pursuits, and create compelling value propositions aligned to customer business priorities.
- Lead discovery workshops to uncover business challenges, technology gaps, modernization needs, and engineering-transformation opportunities.
- Support opportunity qualification, solution positioning, proposal development, presentations, demonstrations, and technical-commercial negotiations.
- Build relationships with customer stakeholders across engineering, R&D, manufacturing, digital, product management, operations, sourcing, and executive leadership.
Domain and Solution Advisory
- Provide subject-matter expertise across electrification, power distribution, grid modernization, energy management, industrial automation, and digital transformation.
- Translate market trends—including decarbonization, distributed energy resources, microgrids, energy storage, smart grids, and software-defined products—into actionable customer propositions.
- Shape offerings spanning product engineering, embedded systems, controls, power electronics, connectivity, cloud/edge platforms, cybersecurity, digital twins, AI-enabled engineering, testing, certification, and lifecycle services.
- Advise on applicable standards, regulatory requirements, product safety, interoperability, cybersecurity, and sustainability considerations.
- Connect capabilities across engineering, manufacturing, digital, and operational technology to create integrated, outcome-led solutions.
Market Development and Team Enablement
- Monitor customer strategies, competitive moves, investment themes, and industry developments to identify whitespace and emerging opportunities.
- Develop reusable industry points of view, solution briefs, workshop content, case-study narratives, and executive-level presentations.
- Coach sales and solution teams on industry terminology, customer operating models, value drivers, buying centers, and technical decision criteria.
- Collaborate with delivery leaders and subject-matter experts to ensure proposed solutions are feasible, differentiated, scalable, and commercially sound.
- Represent the organization at customer forums, industry events, technical workshops, and thought-leadership engagements, as appropriate.
Required Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, electronics engineering, power systems, controls, automation, computer engineering, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
- Typically 15+ years of experience in the energy, electrical equipment, power management, or industrial-automation industry.
- Demonstrated experience working for, consulting to, or selling into leading global electrical, energy-management, or industrial-automation organizations.
- Strong knowledge of product-development lifecycles, engineering organizations, manufacturing environments, and portfolio priorities within the sector.
- Proven ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and convert strategic discussions into qualified opportunities.
- Experience shaping complex engineering-services or digital-transformation solutions, including scope, value case, delivery model, assumptions, risks, and commercial inputs.
- Excellent executive communication, workshop facilitation, storytelling, presentation, and proposal-development skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, multicultural, and geographically distributed organization.
Preferred Domain Expertise
- Low- and medium-voltage systems, switchgear, circuit protection, drives, motors, UPS, power quality, and electrical distribution
- Energy-management systems, building and industrial energy optimization, distributed energy resources, microgrids, and battery energy storage
- Industrial automation, PLC/SCADA/DCS environments, motion control, machine connectivity, and operational technology
- Embedded software, firmware, controls, power electronics, connected products, IoT, cloud/edge platforms, and data analytics
- Product cybersecurity, functional safety, compliance, verification and validation, certification, and sustaining engineering
- Model-based systems engineering, digital thread, digital twins, simulation, AI-enabled engineering, and software-defined product strategies
Leadership Attributes
- Executive presence with strong technical credibility
- Consultative, curious, and commercially oriented mindset
- Ability to simplify complex concepts and connect technology to measurable business outcomes
- Collaborative leadership style with the ability to mobilize cross-functional teams without direct authority
- High degree of ownership, integrity, adaptability, and customer focus