Senior Regional Sales Manager Solar Storage

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova's Power Conversion & Storage business combines advanced energy conversion and storage systems to meet the electrification needs of utilities and industries. With a focus on power stability, energy storage and industrial electrification solutions, Power Conversion & Storage empowers customers by addressing their most complex electrification challenges and accelerating their transition to a sustainable, decarbonized future.

Customer facing staff responsible for winning business leading a team of commercial, engineering, legal and project execution to achieve Commercial objectives. High levels of Commercial judgment are required to achieve outcomes required with a high prioritization towards Energy Storage and EMS applications for Data Centers.

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

• Be accountable for meeting or exceeding an established OP plan
• Develop and execute commercial strategy for sales of Solar/Storage/Hybrids equipment and adjacent tie in product lines
• Own the accurate forecasting of orders and convertible orders for your account package and reflect that in Salesforce.com
• Manage relationships on day-to-day basis and provide transactional support.
• Coordinate with selected GE Renewables sales personnel across the region to implement joint account strategies and close synergy orders
• Develop and execute an overall growth strategy with integrated plays for GE across the region
• Develop strategic customer relationships with key decision makers in support of the sales team's strategic direction
• Drive identification, prospecting and creation of new sales opportunities
• Support your customers in sales activities and provide assistance to them in identifying new opportunities
• Coordinate activities and provide leadership to establish individual sales strategies obtaining appropriate approvals for pricing and delivery
• Negotiate contracts as required
• Maintain knowledge of market trends, competitive actions, product needs, and customer base
• Work with Marketing to develop project specific sales strategies for assigned customers
• Provide feedback to the leadership team to drive continued growth
• Manage expenses within a given budget
• Own the accounts in region; responsible for maintaining relationships at all levels of organization; developing and monitoring growth plans; marketing programs; training
• Manage, maintain, and grow accounts in region to achieve quarterly and yearly quotas
• Ensure GE-provided leads are followed-up and convert to orders.
• Enforce global compliance standards; collaborate with compliance manager to perform due diligence activities.
• Provide market feedback, competitive intelligence and hit-rate information to business and sales leadership.

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business or related technical discipline from an accredited university or college.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in Sales/Commercial Operations/Engineering/Technical Engineering
• Minimum of 4 years of experience within the Developer and Utilities Markets

• Ability and willingness to possess and maintain a valid driver's license / satisfactory driving record
• Ability and willingness to travel North America 50% of the time

• Prior sales success in Battery storage/ Data Centre Power Management / hybrids
• Experience and familiarity with Gas Turbines / Battery storage/ Grid connection and Islanded grids / hybrids industry customers and their overall system operations processes
• Successful sales leadership experience with high value, high price system sales to senior leadership
• In-depth knowledge of the battery storage applications for product lines and markets
• Experience developing relationships at all levels within an organization
• Existing executive-level contacts at one or more accounts in the region
• Comfortable/experienced with cold calling new targeted customers