The Role
We are seeking a seasoned and passionate Regional Sales Lead to build and lead
our sales efforts in North America. This is a strategic market for EnerVenue and
this role will be a major market priority for the company’s growth plans. You
will be the architect of our Sales strategy and go to market campaign in North
America as we grow our team and market share. You will be responsible for
identifying and evaluating new business opportunities, developing and executing
strategies to expand the company’s market presence, establish and maintaining
strong-partnerships and relationships with key stakeholders. As the first sales
resource you will be responsible for identifying opportunities, running the
sales cycle, negotiating contracts, identifying partnership opportunities,
participating in conferences and closing deals. Serving customers, deploying our
technology and scaling the business only happens with experienced sales and
development professionals.
Key Responsibilities
Build the Sales Pipeline: Identify and qualify new sales opportunities through
outbound prospecting, inbound lead follow-up, and networking. Managing weekly
reports and documentation in Salesforce.com.
Customer focus: Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients and key
stakeholders to understand their business and their need for EnerVenue’s
offerings.
Execute on Sales Strategy: Executing on go to market Sales Strategy with
discipline, focus and collaboration with customers.
Negotiate contracts: Demonstrated ability to negotiate and close complex
contracts with sophisticated counter-parties.
Performance-based: Meet or exceed monthly, quarterly, and annual sales targets
Collaborate across organization: Serving customers from lead generation to
commissioning of our product requires collaboration with Marketing, Finance,
Manufacturing, and Deployments teams to ensure customer satisfaction.
Industry expertise: Stay informed on industry trends, competitor offerings, and
market conditions
Position Requirements:
Likely spent the first years at a world-renowned company that is in the clean
energy ecosystem (e.g., Independent Power Producer, Integrator, EPC, developer
or utility at European company). They then spent the next 5 years at a start-up
developing renewable energy, energy storage or other clean energy technologies
with customers that include utilities, commercial and industrial accounts.
* Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in Business, Engineering or related discipline is
required. A Master’s in Business Administration or additional technical
credentials is strongly desired.
* Expertise in European electricity markets is required; applicants should have
5 years of demonstrated customer-facing sales experience in these markets.
* 10+ years of progressive experience in Sales with demonstrated track record
of closing complex sales cycles, in an early-stage company is desired.
Experience managing P&L and working to achieve ambitious goals is highly
desirable.
* Proven experience in the electric industry – such as renewables, battery,
energy storage, automotive, or aerospace industries – where product failure
is not an option and product lifecycles are measured in decades.
Mandatory Core Competencies
Leadership: You are passionate about the renewable energy space, hard-working
and driven to succeed in a challenging environment.
Results-oriented: Creative, confident, self-motivated, organized and
determination to get results
Collaborative: Team player that can work effectively with a broad range of
people and expresses a sense of humor and outgoing personality.
Customer-focused: You approach sales from a customer-oriented perspective and
drive results to meet company commitments.
Effective Communicator: You can effectively communicate with C-suite executives
as well as junior engineers who are trying to manage the electric grid.
Uncompromising Integrity: Maintains the highest ethical standards and integrity
for themselves and for the entire organization.
Ideal Mindset & Competencies
* Leader: As a leader, you possess the ability to confidently explain
EnerVenue’s value proposition, business value and long-term viability
compared to other battery solutions.
* Commercially-minded: Working to reach agreement on contracts with
sophisticated counter-parties requires finesse, creativity and discipline.
* Curious Collaborator: Getting to yes requires putting yourself in your
customer’s shoes and ensuring that the opportunity is executable. Creativity
is essential to getting to yes in a start-up environment.
* Customer-focus: Ultimately, you are your customer’s representative and
ensuring both parties are successful is part of building long-term
relationships.
* Networker: You move seamlessly through customers and understand that
utilities, EPC/Integrators and end-users all have different business drivers
and result in different business models.
* Energy/Battery Energy Storage Savant: You understand how markets work in
various countries, balancing areas and tariff regimes. Electricity is one of
the miracles of the modern 20th Century and deployment of clean energy will
define the 21st Century. Technology is changing how electrons are utilized
and market policies need to adapt to reflect this flexibility.
What EnerVenue Offers
* Unique opportunity to own full end-to-end sales development of a disruptive
long-duration energy storage technology in Europe, the company’s top
strategic market
* Direct alignment with EnerVenue’s global headquarters in Silicon Valley and
joint strategic planning with Stanford R&D team
* Competitive executive-level sales compensation package including base salary
and performance bonus
* Mid-level management sales leadership role backed by top-tier global
investors, with clear gigawatt-scale production capacity expansion roadmap
* Join a mission-driven team developing 30-year service-life grid
infrastructure energy storage equipment, rather than short-cycle consumer
batteries