The Role
Lead technical activities for power systems, ensuring compliance, customer engagement, and project execution while managing risks and improving processes.
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Market Development Manager
We are an Electrification Solutions business in the power distribution sector, focused on innovation, performance, and customer-driven solutions. We're seeking a Solutions Marketing Specialist who combines strategic marketing acumen with deep industry insight. This role is central to shaping and promoting our medium and low voltage solutions portfolio, identifying market opportunities, and executing go-to-market strategies that drive growth and customer success.The work model for the role is: remote (#Li-Remote) with the preferred living location being in Houston, TX, Lake Mary, FL or Chicago, IL.
This role is contributing to the Electrification Distribution Solutions division. Roles & Responsibilities
This role is contributing to the Electrification Distribution Solutions division. Roles & Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership & Design Excellence: Serves as technical lead, approves design deliverables, solves complex engineering challenges, and ensures compliance with safety, cybersecurity, and quality standards. Specializes in protection, controls, IEC 61850 networks, and power system analysis.
- Customer Engagement & Project Execution: Collaborates with customers to shape solutions, resolve technical issues, and support proposal development. Leads design reviews and ensures alignment with secure-by-design principles and contractual obligations.
- Knowledge Sharing & Process Improvement: Coaches peers, conducts design verification, and contributes to workshops. Develops and refines engineering tools and processes, ensuring compliance and suggesting improvements.
- End-to-End Project Support: Manages risk, contract compliance, planning, supply chain coordination, manufacturing, testing, and commissioning. Ensures deliverables meet project goals, timelines, and customer expectations.
- Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or equivalent, with 10+ years of relevant experience and at least 8 years focused on power systems protection and control design.
- Technical Expertise: Strong background in protection and control systems, power system architecture, troubleshooting tools, and analysis; proven experience with IEC 61850 substation automation and familiarity with DNP & Modbus protocols.
- Professional Skills: Hands-on problem solver and team player with strong customer focus; excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
- Mobility & Flexibility: Willing to travel up to 40% to support project and customer needs.
What's in it for youABB'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. 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.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.pdfAs 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. ABB Benefit Summary for eligible US employees[excludes ABB E-mobility, Athens union, Puerto Rico]Go to myBenefitsABB.com and click on “Candidate/Guest” to learn moreHealth, 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
- 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
- Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe.
Top Skills
Dnp
Iec 61850
Modbus
Power Systems Protection
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