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Direct Sales Manager
In this role, you'll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact. As a Pricing & Tender Specialist, you will play a critical role in shaping ABB's success by developing competitive pricing strategies and delivering high-quality tender submissions across our Secondary Portfolio. Combining commercial insight with technical expertise, you will create responsive, compliant, and customer-focused proposals that address complex customer requirements and showcase the value of ABB's solutions. Working closely with customers and internal stakeholders, you will help define technical specifications and develop tailored secondary solutions that meet both application and business needs. You'll leverage your problem-solving skills to identify risks and opportunities, develop effective mitigation strategies, and deliver technically robust, commercially competitive offers. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys collaborating with customers, influencing outcomes, and driving winning solutions that support ABB's growth and strengthen our market position.
The work model for this role is: Hybrid
ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. We provide medium-voltage solutions that connect and protect an evolving grid, enabling the reliable integration of diverse power sources, including renewable energy, into electrical networks. Our offerings include medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.
With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at our core, we serve utilities, industry, and infrastructure segments globally. Our digital solutions, powered by AI, enhance grid resilience by enabling grid fault analysis and prediction. We support our customers and partners in staying ahead of increasing electrification needs, technology advances, and regulatory changes, providing solutions that adapt to a rapidly evolving energy landscape. In New Zealand, we maintain a strong commitment to delivering electrical distribution solutions that meet the unique needs of utilities, industrial operations, and infrastructure projects across both the North and South Islands.
Building a cleaner, smarter future takes all kinds of minds: the curious, the courageous, and the creative. That's why we welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences.
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ABB is a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. The company’s solutions connect engineering know-how and software to optimize how things are manufactured, moved, powered and operated. Building on over 140 years of excellence, ABB’s more than 110,000 employees are committed to driving innovations that accelerate industrial transformation. www.abb.com
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