VP Sales, Electrification US Utility

VP Sales, Electrification Utility

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This position reports to: Sales Manager

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Your role and responsibilities:

The VP Sales, Electrification Utility is responsible for managing the US Utility sales organization to meet and exceed orders targets (balanced selling), price quality/margin, cost, and customer satisfaction objectives, through excellent external and internal customer relations and an increasing share in their segment and geographical area of responsibility.

This position will lead a transformation, combining multiple ABB commercial teams to focus on a one-ABB approach to the utility segment, ensuring alignment in culture, process, and customer mindset. This is a full-remote position. This role is contributing to the Electrification Distribution Solutions group in the United States.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Lead the national sales strategy for the Electrification Utility segment. Full accountability for short and long-term goals, incorporate orders, margin & growth targets as appropriate.
• Lead the integration of multiple ABB Electrification sales teams to ensure a one-ABB approach to our customers, including reviewing go-to-market strategy, sales process, and resourcing.
• Simplify customer experience in terms of quoting and PO process.
• Achieves sales targets through proactive management account managers, iRep organizations and channel partners, including market analysis and performance management of iRep organizations. Ensure balanced selling across the ABB portfolio of products and solutions.
• Relentless pursuit of determining where our customers perceive value to assist our Businesses in aligning their value proposition with the Customers buying criteria.
• Ensure balanced selling across division targets. Ensures iReps in the region operate in alignment with the Electrification business processes, standards and core values. Proactively manages the performance and continually assesses the iRep and channel network to ensure ultimate value to the Electrification business.
• Maintains awareness of competitive landscape in the region.
• Effectively represents ABB Electrification at key channel partners & utility customers, maintaining key relationships.
• Sales leadership for National Accounts directly assigned
• Data analysis and reporting support for the districts utilizing SFDC and other dashboards

Qualifications for the role:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or business administration or technical field. Advances degree desirable
• Minimum 15 years sales or marketing (or related) experience
• Sales leadership of a $100 MUSD + business
• Demonstrated customer mindset and ability to create win-win solutions for our customers and ABB
• Exceptional commercial process rigor - Including but not limited to forecasting, quota setting, territory allocation, incentive design, and people leadership
• Exceptional analytical, communication and leadership skills

More about us:

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

Why ABB?

What's in it for you:

We want you to bring your full self to work-your ideas, your energy, your ambition. You'll have the tools and freedom to grow your skills, shape your path, and take on challenges that matter. Here, your work creates impact you can see and feel, every day.

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative 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.

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ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

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.

While base salary is determined by things such as the successful applicant's qualifications and experience, this position is expected to pay between $188,300 and $301,280 annually and is eligible for a short-term incentive plan/annual bonus.