Business Development Sales Representative Join Schneider Electric's Digital Buildings team in the Carolinas as a Business Development Sales Representative. In this role, you will build new customer relationships, identify growth opportunities, and sell building-technology solutions across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina. You will manage the full sales cycle, from prospecting and qualification through solution development, proposal, negotiation, and close. The successful candidate is a proactive new-business developer who builds trusted relationships and clearly connects technical solutions to customer needs in construction, facilities, and commercial buildings.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop and execute territory plans that generate new business across Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina.
Identify, qualify, and advance opportunities through targeted outreach, networking, social media, professional organizations, and strategic email campaigns.
Build relationships with prospective customers and key decision-makers, including executives, facility managers, property managers, developers, architects, engineers, construction managers, and contractors.
Lead the full sales process from initial discovery through proposal development, negotiation, and close.
Partner with preconstruction and estimating teams to develop customer-focused solutions, cost estimates, and proposals.
Meet or exceed assigned sales, revenue, profitability, and activity goals.
Develop monthly and quarterly account plans to grow the pipeline and improve market coverage.
Research target accounts and create tailored value propositions and outreach strategies.
Coordinate with Marketing to follow up on campaigns, nurture prospects, and convert qualified leads into sales opportunities.
Maintain accurate account, contact, activity, pipeline, and opportunity information in Salesforce.
Support long-term customer relationships that encourage retention and future growth.
Qualifications:
25 years of experience in business development, lead generation, outside sales, or consultative sales is preferred.
Demonstrated ability to build professional relationships and create new business opportunities.
Strong communication, listening, presentation, negotiation, and writing skills.
Ability to understand how technology products and solutions address customer business and operational needs.
Self-motivated, organized, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, team-oriented sales environment.
Ability to collaborate effectively with preconstruction, estimating, operations, marketing, and other cross-functional partners.
Experience using a customer relationship management platform, preferably Salesforce.
Willingness to travel throughout the assigned territory and meet customers in person as business needs require.
About Schneider Electric:
Schneider Electric is a global leader in energy management and automation. We help customers improve efficiency, resilience, and sustainability across homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure, and industrial operations. At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work. Our Total Rewards is our way of saying: "We see you. We value you". It's more than just pay and benefits- it's a meaningful investment in you. It is designed for you to perform, grow, feel safe, and elevate your potential to shine as an impact maker.
For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 133,600 - USD 200,400 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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