Senior Business Development Manager

ENERGY SYSTEMS GROUP is looking for a Senior Business Development Manager to join our team. This position will be virtual with focus on qualifying, pursuing, and securing new business in the Virginia and Mid-Atlantic region and requires 50% travel including overnight stays.

The Senior Business Development Manager is responsible for carrying ESG’s messaging, branding and value proposition into the market in support of our Utility, Public Sector and Commercial & Industrial customer segments related to our Efficiency, Resiliency, and Sustainability solutions. This position will support ESG utility partners and their key account customers by identifying and qualifying potential business targets and projects using a consultative, value-based sales approach to sell business solutions that address client’s business and operational issues, market, and regulatory pressure. The Senior Business Development Manager is responsible for communicating client goals, objectives and success measurement criteria to development and sales support teams so potential project scopes and solutions are aligned with client objectives. This position will communicate market pressures to engineering and other leadership so emerging technologies can be evaluated for deployment in the market while driving new orders for new business opportunities.

The essential functions of the position include:

• Qualifying, pursuing, and securing new business with assigned utility, state, local and municipal targets that align with ESG’s capabilities, experience, and efficiency, resiliency, and sustainability solutions sets in the Midwestern United States
• Understand or develop an understanding of utility industry business objectives, in general, along with specific understanding of utility partners supported by ESG to ensure we successfully offer solutions that align with their and their key account objectives and needs
• Work with ESG’s Utility Engagement, Engineering, and other subject matter experts (SMEs) to identify and develop solutions that align with objectives and address business challenges of key customer targets that demonstrate ESG’s value and differentiate ESG as compared to competitors and other customer alternatives for potential projects
• Work with ESG SMEs and business partners to develop contract approaches and potential strategies to leverage grants and/or incentives that may be available to support securing new business for ESG
• Work with team members to create solutions that balance competing business priorities and initiatives with budgets and available incentives that are measurable and meet client benchmarks for project success
• Identify a list of potential business targets by
  • Leveraging Utility Engagement Director relationships with key partner utilities along with partner utility relationships with their key accounts
  • Leveraging supplier and manufactures representative relationships and business intelligence
  • Working with regional engineering firms to identify possible opportunities to showcase ESG’s value
  • Attending and working trade shows and industry conferences
• Understand or develop a thorough knowledge of Design Build, Public-Private Partnerships (P3), and Performance Contracting business models that are required for and can be supported through these contract approaches
• Work with ESG Marketing, Business Development, and other appropriate ESG personnel to identify and employ collateral, social media, and other marketing strategies to promote new business growth in assigned territories and markets

Your background includes:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, or a related field
• Ten or more (10 ) years of consultative sales experience within energy services, sustainable infrastructure, and resiliency solutions related experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience; i.e., Master Degree (ME, MBA, etc.) and/or PE
• Familiarity with state and federal legislation pertaining to procurement
  • Design-build
  • ESPC
  • P3
  • ESA
  • Energy solutions

• Familiarity with Utility Industry objectives and business models
• Ability to write proposals, reports, and business correspondence
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, utility leaders, clients, customers, and the public
• Effective and successful consultative and value-based sales development, negotiation, and closing techniques
• Excellent organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities and business relationships

What we bring to you:

• Professional growth and development programs including tuition reimbursement
• Comprehensive health, dental, vision insurance plans and wellness plans for employee and your family
• Life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and supplemental benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Nine Paid Holidays and three Floater Holidays
• Paid Vacation and Personal/Sick Leave
• Paid Parental Leave for the birth, adoption, or placement of a child/children
• Highly competitive salaries and incentive structure

We want you to know:

ESG is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value talent and understand that our colleagues allow us the opportunity to deliver an exceptional customer experience. We achieve our goals through teamwork and conduct our business with integrity. Join our world-class team to provide mission-critical infrastructure solutions for K-12 schools and universities to local, state and federal government agencies and more.

This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR §§ 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a), and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities, and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status or disability.

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Energy Systems Group, LLC and its commonly owned affiliates, PacificWest Energy Solutions, Inc. and Yearout Energy Solutions Company, LLC, (collectively, "ESG") do not accept unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies, search firms, or third-party recruiting entities (generally, “Agency[ies]”). Candidate materials that are submitted by an Agency to ESG that are either unsolicited or are submitted by an Agency to an ESG employee other than a member of ESG’s Human Resources Department are considered an “Improper Agency Submission.” Any materials submitted via an Improper Agency Submission will be considered the sole and exclusive property of ESG, regardless of whether a fully executed staffing agreement exists between ESG and an Agency. ESG disclaims all liability and financial obligation of any kind, including the payment of Agency placement fees or commissions, associated with an Improper Agency Submission.