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Senior Sustainability Sales Executive

AT Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric

Senior Sustainability Sales Executive

Peoria, IL

Schneider Electric's Sustainability Sales Executives are integral to the success of client engagement within the Public Sector. They are customer-centric, relationship builders who provide highly sustainable, comprehensive ways to reduce energy expenses and achieve and sustain better overall performance from our clients' facilities . They love to win and work hard, they are passionate, inquisitive, and confident. They are team leaders, superb program managers and are the quarterbacks of the Schneider Electric Public Sector team! Does this sound like you?

This Sustainability Sales Executive sits within our Sustainability Public Sector. Public Sector projects are typically small to medium in size with traditional scope of complexity. Customer vertical markets may include K-12 education, post-secondary, small/medium municipal and county government . We are seeking a candidate that is already established and familiar with the Midwest market.

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As a Sustainability Sales Executive, a typical day for you may include:
  • Identifying and building new client relationships with research and community outreach
  • Creating lead generation campaigns to prospect and build new business
  • Leading internal teams
  • Calling on executive-level prospects and present to C-Suite clients
  • Leading the development of strategic and tactical plans for moving prospects to clients.
  • Networking inside relevant vertical market and industry organizations to educate, expand prospect opportunities and promote Schneider as the industry leader

And on some days, you may:
  • Close multi-million-dollar design-build energy infrastructure deals
  • Negotiate the price and contract for large, complex infrastructure improvements
  • Facilitate industry events

This may be the next step in your career journey if you have:
  • A 4-year degree and 2+ years of direct sales experience with demonstrated achievement of significant sales goals in previous work environments
  • Demonstrated success in closing complex service and/or solution sales, not primarily product sales
  • Experience initiating and closing sales of large $ volume at high organizational levels - C-suite or equivalent with public sector clients

Let us learn about you! Apply today.

You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values - Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork - starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric - apply today!

36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
#1 on the Global 100 World's most sustainable corporations

You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.

Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and 'inclusion' is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do. This extends to our Candidates and is embedded in our Hiring Practices.

You can find out more about our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here and our DEI Policy here

At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here

Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.

Client-provided location(s): Illinois, USA; Arkansas, USA; Kansas, USA; Oklahoma, USA
Job ID: Schneider_Electric-76180
Employment Type: Full Time