Business Development Manager – Data Center Applications – Air Moving

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer focused on providing sustainable solutions. The Business Development Manager will accelerate sales growth in the Power Efficiency Solutions Segment, specifically in air moving technologies for data centers, by developing sales strategies and maintaining customer relationships.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for meeting/exceeding sales targets while providing detailed and accurate sales forecasts
• Demonstrated success in pursuing long-cycle business development with complex equipment manufacturers (OEM), including the engineering qualification process
• Experience identifying and influencing large capital projects with typically long sales cycles, deployed in data centers
• Creates and maintains projects in CRM, driving opportunities from lead, to bid, to close, and from order to cash
• Develops and implements strategic sales plan and institutes effective standard work for data center customers, sales processes based on company goals that will promote sales growth and customer satisfaction
• Drive specification and end-user demand for PES air moving end-to-end solutions, pulling through sales of centrifugal fans, axial fans, motors, controls, accessories, and others
• Monitors customer and market trends and clearly communicates risks and opportunities to leadership team
• Leads quarterly business and monthly performance reviews
• Negotiates customer contracts and programs as required
• Establish effective relationships with key influencers related to data center projects, utilizing air moving solutions as part of the project scope, and working with key OEMs to have RRX technologies qualified
• Gather detailed information about data center customers and project opportunities, identify key decision-makers, understand strategic business challenges and priorities, and lead team in successful project and wins
• Drives commercial and product strategies to outpace market growth of data center vertical
• Ensures high post-sales satisfaction, facilitating positive long-term relationships and high potential for repeat business with accounts
• Cultivates business and market development growth opportunities by promoting value propositions to meet customer needs
• Contributes to a culture of success and ongoing business and goal achievement
• Demonstrates technical product training and effectively communicates features, benefits and advantages over the competition

Requirements:

• BS in Business, Marketing, Engineering or a related field or 10+ years or relevant experience
• 5+ years commercial experience in the HVAC and/or Data center space
• Strong presentation communication skills
• Strong/passionate customer focus
• Sales experience focusing on distributors, contractors, consultants, and end-users
• Strong analytical, problem solving, negotiation, and relationship management skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects and work to tight deadlines
• Strong computer skills – experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint Outlook & Teams)
• Ability to work independently and remotely
• Experience working with 80/20, and Power BI
• High level of personal initiative, energy, and ownership of business results