Natural Gas Business Development Manager

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Activate your potential join NORIT, the world leader in activated carbon production!

In this role your primary duty will be to establish trusted-advisor relationships with customers, to understand their corporate, business, and facility objectives, and to lead them to leverage NORIT's purification solutions to achieve their goals. The position is focused on sales of activated carbon products and services for new customer opportunities. You will be calling on and working with local facilities and top company leadership on gas processing sites and other energy facilities. Using your knowledge, interpersonal skills, energy, and great personality, you will build trusted advisor relationships with these people, discuss gas treatment challenges in their facilities, and introduce solutions that will make their operations and profitability easier. This role requires a highly intelligent self-motivated individual with a positive attitude, a ton of good energy, strong organizational skills, and urgency to make things happen.

A successful candidate will be someone who can:

• Manage the business development pipeline in the target segment and sell NORIT products and services, generate target levels of revenue, volume, and margins from the customer base.
• Develop volume and revenue forecasts, account plans for new business and retention, customer value propositions, and sales strategies for achieving desired results.
• Drive both current and future value for NORIT by building a shared understanding of the differentiated value to the individual customer and overall portfolio profitability.
• Effectively communicate and negotiate complex sales opportunities with customers. Educate customers on the value proposition, articulate features and benefits.
• Identify new market opportunities; seek out competitive information.
• Assist in managing third party sales intermediaries such as engineering firms, distributors, developers, system providers, and service companies.
• Use Salesforce.com and data management tools with consistency and discipline to maintain an accurate and up-to-date forecast and opportunity pipeline.