Business Lead, Software & Control

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We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Reporting to the Regional Manager for Software Controls, the Business Leader is a highly critical and visible role. Your territory will cover Western Canada - with travel up to 50%.

Business Unit Leaders are a commercial & technical resource for a segment or portion of Rockwell Automation portfolio (Software & Control). You will maximize and manage the sales of their portfolio within an assigned geography by supporting sales activities, launching new products, ensuring RA Sales and channel to market product competency, providing commercial program support, and marketing activities. You will advise on proposals, pricing, and sales pursuit strategies and provide department feedback on product/service gaps and development needs for their assigned markets.

What you will do:

Sales Preparation & Customer Facing

• Ensure regional selling resources maintain the appropriate competencies across assigned products and services.
• Co-operate with the sales force in promoting the product offering for which they are responsible.
• Lead launch of new products to the sales force and channel.
• Plan and execute commercial programs related to product responsibility.
• Define and articulate product differentiators and values versus competition.
• Provide timely information to support effective management of the business to all levels.
• Analyze competitive product lines, have knowledge of competitor's strategy, further define competitive differentiators.
• Participate in trade shows, seminars, Webinars and/or similar marketing activities.
• Plan and execute training (technical and Commercial) for sales organizations and ecosystem to ensure they are enabled with the latest information to sell the value of assigned product lines to our customers
• Ensure market access (System Integrators and Distributors) can articulate value and identify opportunities for new products and technologies within assigned product business.
• Provide product gap and development feedback to appropriate team.

The Essentials - You will have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Ability to travel 50% of time or more
• Legal authorization to work in Canada is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• Valid Drivers Licence

The Preferred - You might also have:

• Business acumen on industry trends for manufacturing, industrial distribution, manufacturing operations, OEM market, System Integration market
• Minimum 8 years solution and application expertise, and related demonstrated sales experience.
• Aware of competitors and trends
• Prior or current experience working with all levels of customer persona, c-level, executive, plant management, Sellers, Customers, Owners, with knowledge of Automation technologies and services
• Marketing skills.
• Experience at planning and operationalizing execution to broad range of Sales, Business Unit, and Channel Members.

What We Offer:

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor. This is a summary of the position's responsibilities and does not reflect the entire scope of work expectations.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans. 

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Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.