Switchboard Proposal Specialist

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This position reports to:
Proposals Manager

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Your role and responsibilities

As the Switchboard Proposal Specialist you will have the opportunity to adapt and implement sales support strategy using specific technical capability for the designated area in line with the global support strategy and focus on supporting configuration and quotation requirements. Each day, you will oversee estimations, bids, and proposals, ensuring alignment with ABB standards and targets. You will also showcase your expertise by ensuring that inputs for editing activities related to bid, estimate, and quotation preparation are provided in a timely manner and in accordance with the established quality procedures.

This is a hybrid position and can be based out of Mebane or Cary, NC.

This role is contributing to the ELSP Switchboard Proposals Team in the USA.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Formulating competitive bids, estimates, and quotations by considering the best available product mix and appropriate technical and commercial aspects for each situation.
  
• Ensuring tenders are well-documented in a timely manner and with an appropriate level of detail, including full and accurate costs.
  
• Leading and managing the planning and preparation of technical, financial, and, if required, project management aspects of the bid, estimate, and quotation, indicating prices and trading conditions.
  
• Managing the collection and archival of documentation regarding the offer/order and recording of assumptions and decisions made during development; and ensuring the status of the bids, estimates, and quotations are reported regularly.
  

You will join an experienced and highly performing team, where you will be able to thrive.

Qualifications for the role

• You are skilled in product selection/configuration (preferably utilizing ABB's empower quotes tool) and interpreting technical and commercial requirements from formal plans and specifications
  
• 5+ years experience in the Electrical Industry
  
• Ability to leverage your experience with quoting/selling/designing complex Electrical Distribution Equipment
  
• Possess an enhanced knowledge of Electrical Distribution Equipment (preferably including Switchboards)
  
• You are passionate about supporting Sales resources and our customers
  
• Bachelor's Degree (Preferred) or Associates Degree
  
• You are at ease communicating in English
  

What's in it for you?

More about us

ABB Smart Buildings enables optimization of energy efficiency, safety, security and comfort for any building type, through new installations or retrofit solutions. The Division offers integrated digital technologies to control HVAC, lighting, shutters, and security, in addition to energy distribution solutions including DIN rail products, enclosures, and emergency lighting through to industrial plugs and sockets and conventional wiring accessories, accommodating for single family homes, multiple dwellings, commercial buildings, infrastructure and industrial applications. The Division's highly innovative technologies and digital solutions serve rising global demand among real estate developers, owners, and investors for smart building technologies that optimize energy distribution and building automation. The scalable solutions aim to deliver significant sustainable and financial benefits, meeting social and environmental demands, while being able to address even the most complex of customers' carbon reduction strategies.

Why ABB?

What's in it for you:

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.

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Health, 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
  

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
  
  
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)
  

Time off

• ABB provides 11 paid holidays. Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy.
  

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