Senior Sales and Business Development Manager, Onshore Wind, UK
GE Vernova is looking for an exceptional Senior Sales and Business Development Manager UK to join our Northern Europe Commercial team for Onshore Wind based in the UK
GE Vernova - The Energy to Change the World
With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonize it. Our name reflects our mission. “GE” carries a legacy of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” signals Earth’s lush ecosystems, while “Nova” nods to a new era of lower-carbon energy we are helping to deliver.
Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity vital to health, safety, and quality of life.
Wind
Wind energy is essential to a low-carbon future. We design and build advanced Offshore and Onshore Wind technologies, as well as high-performing Wind Turbine Blades, to capture the power of nature and turn it into progress.
Role Overview
As the Senior Sales and Business Development Manager for the UK, you will lead the identification, evaluation, and conversion of Onshore Wind opportunities. By leveraging expert commercial judgment and cross-functional collaboration with Commercial Operations, Technical Marketing, and Product Management, you will shape market strategy, structure complex deals, and serve as the primary interface for our customers to strengthen GE Vernova’s market leadership.
Your Impact
- Secure High-Value Deals: Identify, qualify, and convert commercial opportunities, balancing market competitiveness with prudent risk management.
- Drive Growth Strategy: Deliver short-term results while building long-term pipelines through strategic development in both established and emerging regions.
- Lead Strategic Relationships: Act as the primary interface for key accounts up to senior management level, fostering trust and long-term partnerships.
- Influence Market Direction: Represent GE Vernova in UK industry associations to advocate for our strategic interests and shape policy.
- Manage Complex Bids: Coordinate multidisciplinary teams to align project budgets, technical offerings, and internal approvals with transaction timelines.
- Develop Competitive Solutions: Use robust market analysis to identify partners and structure innovative commercial offerings that sharpen our competitive edge.
- Drive Integrated Solutions: Collaborate across GE Vernova to deliver global energy solutions, influencing internal and external stakeholders to achieve strategic outcomes.
- Expand Regional Reach: Support business development initiatives across Northern Europe as market opportunities emerge.
What Success Looks Like in This Role
The ideal candidate is a commercially astute, technically grounded leader with proven wind‑sector experience, capable of influencing senior stakeholders, managing complex deadlines and budgets, and representing the business with empathy, confidence, and frequent travel.
- Brings essential prior experience in the wind industry, ideally with solid technical and commercial understanding.
- Demonstrates strong stakeholder management skills, able to communicate clearly, influence effectively, and build trust at all organisational levels.
- Comfortable leading a cross-functional bidding team, showing natural leadership qualities grounded in empathy, sound judgement, and collaborative decision‑making.
- Proven ability to work to strict deadlines while managing budgets, commercial priorities, and multiple parallel workstreams.
- Confident engaging with senior external partners and internal executives, including navigating complex or sensitive discussions.
- Willing and able to travel regularly to support customers, partners, and regional business needs.
- Adaptable, self‑driven, and capable of representing the organisation across diverse markets while maintaining a high standard of professionalism and integrity.
Our Culture
Every action shapes our future. That’s why our north star is a culture of impact, where everyone is empowered to thrive and achieve.
Addressing the urgent need to build a more sustainable electric power system while improving the trajectory of climate change emissions are global priorities, and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world We play a significant role in leading a new era of energy.
Our technology helps generate approximately twenty-five percent of the world’s electricity today, and we are working to power the rest. If we want the future of energy to be different, then join us and be the difference. Together, we are the Energy of Change!
We're determined to be the best place to grow
We believe that strong careers are built on a variety of experiences, strong connections, and continuous development. We’re committed to providing you the tools to navigate and shape a strong career journey that aligns with a healthy work-life balance. No two careers are the same, and yours should reflect your personal and professional goals. Your people leader and trusted mentors will support you through navigating your journey.
We also prioritize fair pay, performance-based rewards, and wellbeing programs for you and your family. With opportunities to move across teams and functions, your career can keep evolving while sustainability stays at the core of everything we do.
Inclusion & Diversity
We are passionate about creating an inclusive work environment. By valuing the ideas and contributions of a diverse workforce we help inspire others to grow, succeed, and raise the bar for everyone.
As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, GE Vernova is committed to support disadvantaged groups whilst providing equal opportunities for both GE Vernova associates and applicants alike.
Join us at GE Vernova where results can be achieved by embracing a community of belonging.
Due to the high volume of candidates we receive, we will only contact successful applicants for the interview stage.
Additional InformationRelocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Skills Required
- Prior experience in the wind industry with technical and commercial understanding
- Proven track record securing high-value deals and structuring complex commercial transactions
- Strong stakeholder management and senior‑level engagement skills
- Experience leading cross-functional bidding teams and coordinating multidisciplinary stakeholders
- Ability to manage strict deadlines, budgets, commercial priorities, and multiple parallel workstreams
- Willingness and ability to travel regularly to support customers, partners, and regional business needs
- Capability to perform market analysis and develop competitive, integrated commercial solutions
- Comfort representing the company in industry associations and influencing policy or market direction
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
GE Vernova Insights
What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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