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At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values of care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration, combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities, help empower customers and partners to create sustainable solutions.
The Sales Development Leader (SDL) is responsible for driving district-wide growth execution across Colorado, New Mexico, North Texas, and Oklahoma. The SDL serves as the district's growth catalyst by identifying ecosystem opportunities, accelerating pull-through demand, deploying growth initiatives, improving strategic opportunity visibility, and developing agency sales capabilities.
The SDL works closely with Agency Sales Teams, Agency RVPs, Industrial Sales Specialists (ISS), Market Development Managers (MDMs), and District Leadership to ensure ABB growth strategies are translated into measurable business results.
This role does not own territory management, revenue forecasting, customer account ownership, distributor management, or technical specification development. Instead, the SDL focuses on creating future growth by improving opportunity creation, ecosystem engagement, share gain initiatives, and strategic market execution.
The work model for the role is: Remote in TX. Dallas Fort Worth area is preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
Ecosystem Growth Development
- Coordinate ecosystem growth efforts by identifying strategic opportunities and aligning ABB and agency resources toward priority pursuits.
- Develop ecosystem maps that improve visibility to strategic projects and future market activity.
- Identify areas of ABB under penetration and develop growth plans to improve market share.
- Promote pull-through demand creation that ultimately converts into distributor sales growth.
Strategic Opportunity Management
- Facilitate district strategic opportunity reviews and growth discussions in partnership with Agency RVPs and Agency Sales Teams.
- Develop visibility to major projects and opportunities early in the project lifecycle.
- Support pursuit planning and resource coordination for strategic opportunities.
- Track project progression and identify barriers to opportunity advancement.
- Promote disciplined opportunity management across all agency sales offices.
Agency Growth & Sales Enablement
- Partner with agency sales teams to strengthen opportunity creation and ecosystem engagement.
- Coach and support agency personnel on strategic opportunity development.
- Promote best-practice sharing across representative organizations.
- Support onboarding and development of agency personnel within growth-focused markets.
- Assist agency RVPs and district leadership in executing district growth initiatives.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or related discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in industrial sales, channel development, business development, strategic growth, or related commercial leadership roles.
- Demonstrated success working through indirect sales channels.
- Experience developing growth initiatives and strategic market programs.
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills.
- Ability to influence without direct authority in a matrixed organization.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and relationship management skills.
- Ability to travel throughout the district.
- Experience working with manufacturers' representative organizations, and experience within Data Centers, Water/Wastewater & Infrastructure, Semiconductor, Power Generation, OEM, or Panel Builder markets is preferred.
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 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.
For more information regarding your (EEO) rights as an applicant, please visit the following websites: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf
As an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer for Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities, applicants may request to review the plan of a particular ABB facility between the hours of 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. EST Monday through Friday by contacting an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762.
Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access ABB's career site as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling an ABB HR Representative at 1-888-694-7762 or by sending an email to [email protected]. Resumes and applications will not be accepted in this manner.
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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. Vacation is provided based on years of service for hourly and non-exempt positions. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Marketing, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of experience in industrial sales, channel development, business development, strategic growth, or related commercial leadership roles
- Demonstrated success working through indirect sales channels
- Experience developing growth initiatives and strategic market programs
- Strong business acumen and analytical skills
- Ability to influence without direct authority in a matrixed organization
- Excellent communication, organizational, and relationship management skills
- Ability to travel throughout the district
- Experience working with manufacturers' representative organizations
- Experience in Data Centers, Water/Wastewater and Infrastructure, Semiconductor, Power Generation, OEM, or Panel Builder markets
ABB Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and disability and life insurance included. Immediate eligibility in some roles reinforces the sense of dependable core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as broad, including paid holidays, sick days, volunteer time, sabbaticals, and, in some cases, 25 days of PTO. Flexible scheduling and remote-work options add to perceived time-off and flexibility value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as robust, including a 401(k) with company contributions or matching and, in some cases, profit sharing or pension savings. Stock purchase/share acquisition programs complement longer-term savings options.
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What We Do
ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 110,000 talented employees in over 100 countries. www.abb.com
