Solutions Director, Power & Energy

Honeywell International, Inc.; Hamilton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 203,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Honeywell International Inc. seeks a Power & Energy Solutions Director to shape strategy, campaigns, and go-to-market approaches across the Power and Energy Management segment.

You’ll translate complex power automation capabilities into compelling customer offerings and align multiple stakeholders in a matrix environment. Reporting to the Vertical Leader, Energy Control and Management, this role is based in Houston, TX on a hybrid schedule and aims to drive incremental revenue and margin growth

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical experience in power generation automation and energy management.
• 5+ years in solution development or offering management translating tech into customer offerings.
• Experience leading complex initiatives in a matrix organization.
• Proven track record of developing and launching offerings.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent strategic thinking and negotiation abilities.
• Ability to collaborate across product, technology, and sales teams.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to executives and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Market Research: Monitor market trends, VoC insights, and competitive landscape to identify growth opportunities for the portfolio.
• Segmentation: Define priority segments and buyer personas from customer needs and translate into requirements.
• Value Proposition: Synthesize value propositions for an overall solution, not just product-level guidance.
• Manage product and portfolio development: Translate customer needs into priorities for tech, product, and sales teams; manage pricing and GTM collateral.
• Business Model and Pricing: Develop pricing approaches that balance customer value with simplicity.
• Portfolio Management: Maintain a go-to-market roadmap and coordinate launches across businesses.
• Expected Results: Drive profitability and top-line growth by converting capabilities into scalable offerings.
• Develop and maintain relationships with SBU/SBG leadership and cross-functional partners to advance offerings.

Skills

Power automation

Energy management

Matrix organization

Stakeholder management

Solution development

Go-to-market

Campaign management

Sales collaboration

Education

Master’s degree in business, engineering, or related field

Job description

As a Power & Energy Solutions Director, you will play a unique role in building solutions, strategy, and go-to-market approaches across Honeywell’s businesses in support of the Power and Energy Management segment. This role is intended for candidates who bring a strong technical background in power automation, energy controls, and industrial energy management, along with the organizational maturity to align multiple stakeholders, navigate a matrix environment, and develop and promote new offerings across business groups. You will be responsible for understanding a broad spectrum of products and curating needs-based solutions founded on market trends, Customer VoC, and internal insights from multiple HON Strategic Business Groups (SBGs). Your strategic synthesis, technical credibility, strong sales and communication skills, and ability to collaborate with cross-business teams will be essential in delivering successful outcomes for Honeywell's business.

You will report directly to our Vertical Leader, Energy Control and Management and you’ll work out of our Houston, TX location on a Hybrid work schedule.

In this role, you will have broad accountability to take existing and emerging products from several segments of the Power and Energy business and synthesize them into campaigns focused on high-value strategic targets. You will be responsible for market research, VoC / segmentation, value proposition, product development, go-to-market, and critically, incremental revenue and margin growth for at least two different campaigns annually. Success will require the ability to translate complex power automation capabilities into compelling customer offerings, build alignment across product, technology, sales, and regional teams, and influence decisions without direct authority in a matrixed organization.

Job Breakdown:

40% - Build strategy, go-to-market for new portfolio offerings.

30% - Determine the offerings roadmap, coordinating with various HON businesses.

30% - Grow the sales pipeline, supporting sales teams to close opportunities.

Key Responsibilities

• Market Research: Monitor market trends, Customer VoC, internal insights, and competitive landscape to identify growth opportunities and priorities for the larger portfolio mix, with a strong understanding of power automation, controls, energy management, and related industrial technologies.

• Segmentation: Identify and learn emerging customer needs, define priority segments and buyer personas, and translate those insights into solution requirements

• Value Proposition: Synthesize value proposals based on market willingness for an overall solution, not individual product or SKU guidance.

• Manage product and portfolio development: Turn customer needs and technical power automation requirements into actionable priorities for technology, product, and sales teams across businesses. Manage pricing, positioning, and go-to-market collateral.

• Business Model and Pricing: Develop business models and pricing approaches that simplify the customer experience while maximizing value for Honeywell.

• Portfolio Management: Maintain a new product / go-to-market roadmap taking all of the above into account. Collaborate with cross-business teams to influence product roadmaps, and coordinate new offering launches across SBGs.

• Expected Results: Drive incremental profitability and top-line growth by converting cross-business capabilities into scalable, market-ready offerings.

• Develop and maintain relationships to create support and awareness of your priorities with key stakeholders such as Strategic Business Unit (SBU) and SBG executive leadership, vertical leaders, business offering management, R&D, regional business leaders, sales teams, and other cross-functional partners. Demonstrate the organizational maturity to build alignment, resolve ambiguity, and advance offerings in a matrixed environment.

You Must Have

• 5+ years of technical experience in power generation automation, controls, energy management, and related industrial sectors.

• 5+ years in solution development, offering management, or related roles that require translating technical capabilities into customer-facing offerings.

• Experience leading complex initiatives in a matrix organization, including influencing teams and stakeholders without direct authority.

• Proven track record of successfully developing and launching offerings.

• Strong leadership, organizational maturity, and stakeholder management skills.

• Excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, including the ability to influence and negotiate with stakeholders at all levels.

• Ability to work across product, technology, sales, regional, and executive teams to develop, launch, and promote new offerings.

• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical and commercial concepts clearly to executive, sales, product, and engineering audiences.

We Value

• Master’s degree in business, engineering, or related field.

• Experience in a global sales role.

• Experience building product offerings to target government contracts, grants, or policy

• Experience leading offering management teams

• Experience in multiple industrial sectors

• Experience in multiple Honeywell Businesses or comparably complex business units in a global industrial organization

• Working knowledge of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) regulations and incentives in the European Union and/or United States.

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base salary range for this position is $203,000-$275,000. Please note that this salary information serves as a general guideline. Honeywell considers various factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position, the candidate's work experience, education and training, key skills, as well as market and business considerations

In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays. For more information visit: Benefits at Honeywell (https://benefits.honeywell.com/)

The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however, this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

ABOUT HONEYWELL

Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) invents and commercializes technologies that address some of the world’s most critical challenges around energy, safety, security, air travel, productivity, and global urbanization. We are a leading software-industrial company committed to introducing state of the art technology solutions to improve efficiency, productivity, sustainability, and safety in high growth businesses in broad-based, attractive industrial end markets. Our products and solutions enable a safer, more comfortable, and more productive world, enhancing the quality of life of people around the globe. Learn more here: https://www.honeywell.com/us/en

Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status. Learn more here: https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/company/inclusion-and-diversity

Honeywell Technologies is a global, pure-play automation company with a legacy of innovating to help solve the world’s most mission-critical challenges, enhancing the quality of life for people and communities around the world. We serve the building, industrial and process sectors with a broad portfolio of services, solutions and products, underpinned by our Honeywell Technologies Accelerator operating system and Honeywell Technologies Forge intelligence layer. By combining the deep domain expertise of our more than 50,000 employees with decades of data from our global installed base, we are uniquely positioned to lead the industrial sector’s transition from automation to autonomy.

Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.