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Sales Operations Leader
Location
Illinois + 3 moreAll locations: Illinois | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Virginia
Posted
21 days ago
Salary
$116.2K - $185.9K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Sales Operations Leader
ABB
• Adapt and implement sales support strategy for a designated area in accordance with the global support strategy. • Ensure technical and commercial support for internal and external customers. • Oversee estimations, bids, and proposals ensuring alignment with ABB standards and targets. • Lead, develop, and coach the Sales Support team. • Define key targets and ensure their achievement by overseeing progress and defining improvement actions for customer support and satisfaction. • Ensure the most competitive offers considering the market situation and customer conditions; and identify the most effective approach (e.g., direct sales, consortium, or channel) for better serving the customer. • Oversee the validation of terms and conditions (commercial, technical, legal, and pricing) in each offer; and support bid/no bid analyses and decisions. • Participate in project risk review processes; and ensure the required technical support and clarifications are provided to the Sales organizations during technical meetings, product presentations, and negotiations with customers.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Data Analytics, or similar field
- 7+ years of experience in sales operations, forecasting, demand planning, sales enablement, or strategic account management ideally in industrial, electrical, engineering, or mission-critical infrastructure sectors.
- Advanced skills with BI tools (Power BI, Snowflake), Excel, SAP, and Salesforce CRM.
- Experience working with Supply Chain, Operations, and Engineering in a manufacturing or engineered-to-order environment.
- Strong analytical skills with experience in forecasting, reporting; knowledge of Excel Power Pivot and Power Query preferred.
- Ability to translate complex technical and operational information into clear, actionable insights.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Experience in global or matrixed organizations.
- Strong project management skills and ability to manage concurrent multiple initiatives.
- Experience supporting mission-critical customers (data centers, hospitals, utilities, industrial facilities).
- Familiarity with various customer go-to-market strategies, such as iRep, Distributor, Value Added Reseller, integrators, and direct/end-user.
- Strong understanding of UPS systems, switchgear, PDUs, and power distribution equipment.
- Familiarity with long-lead-time electrical components and supply chain constraints.
- Process-driven mindset with strong attention to detail, structure, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Benefits
- 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)
- ABB provides 11 paid holidays.
- Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
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