Modernization & Parts Proposal Specialist

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This Position reports to:
Sales Support Manager

In this role, you'll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact.

This role is contributing to the Electrification Services Division in the United States.

The work model for the role is: Preferably hybrid in Mebane, NC, or Florence, SC; Also open to Senatobia, TN, or Remote #Li-Remote

Your role and responsibilities:

ABB empowers smarter business operations by connecting equipment, software, and services to protect, control, and optimize assets within electrical infrastructures. Across multiple energy-intensive industries, the business provides customers with end-to-end product and service solutions that help ensure the reliability and protection of their electrical infrastructure.

The Modernizations and Parts Proposal Specialist for ABB (Electrification, Services) will provide support to the Regional Commercial team in the development of aftermarket parts and services proposals for power delivery, power utilization and automation systems. In this role you will identify and propose value-added solutions to a broad range of customers including Preventive Maintenance, Power Distribution upgrades and parts, as well as driving order and profit growth through the strategic marketing of the aftermarket services product lines. This position performs various product, system or service life cycle activities supporting proposal development, launch, maintenance, pricing, and profitability. In this fast paced, end-customer facing role, you will require a strong technical background and highly effective communication and organizational skills.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Be a key member of the North America Modernization and Parts commercial team in support of achieving the region's orders, revenue and margin plan by owning and driving the development of a high volume of professional proposals for the commercial team
• Partner with internal and external sales and the technical support team including application engineering and field services to provide cost and price for services and equipment needed to develop work scopes and create timely, professional customer-ready proposals
• Work with the Region sales team to understand customer requirements, develop deal strategies and analyze the competitive landscape and market pricing
• Manage the entire opportunity and proposal screening, development, approvals and pricing processes, working in salesforce.com for all active opportunities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 2 years of experience, or associates with 4 years and HS with 6 years; or alternately a special combination of education and experience and/or demonstrated accomplishments in customer service.
• Minimum 2 years of experience in Sales, Commercial Operations, Engineering, Product Development or Field Service
• Salesforce.com (SFDC) and SAP experience.
• Must possess high levels of personal integrity and business ethics.
• Technical experience with industrial and utility customers and processes.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior Switchgear, circuit breaker component experience (direct ABB product overlap) is highly desirable.
• Bachelors degree in Engineering (preferably Electrical Engineering).

More about us:

ABB's Service Division partners with our customers to improve the availability, reliability, predictability and sustainability of electrical products and installations. The Division's extensive service portfolio offers product care, modernization, and advisory services to improve performance, extend equipment lifetime and deliver new levels of operational and sustainable efficiency. We help customers keep resources in use for as long as possible, extracting the maximum value from them, and then recovering and regenerating products and materials at the end of their useful life.

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.

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ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees

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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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Candidates must already have work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US.

We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe.