Sales Specialist

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we’ll give you what you need to make it happen. It won’t always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you’ll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

This Position reports to:

Sales Manager - ELDS


Job Summary

The Renewable Sales Specialist is responsible for driving sales of medium-voltage switchgear, renewable integration solutions, and BESS within the UK South region. This role manages the full sales cycle—from prospecting to order handover—ensuring profitable growth, strong customer relationships, and successful delivery of proposals aligned with business strategy. The successful candidates will need to be based in the South of the UK.

 

Our Team Dynamics  

Our teams support each other, collaborate, and never stop learning. Everyone brings something unique, and together we push ideas forward to solve real problems. Being part of our team means your work matters - because the progress we make here creates real impact out there. 

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.  

Your Role and Responsibilities  

In this role, you’ll help run what runs the world, by taking on meaningful work that drives real impact. 

 

• Sales & Revenue Growth: Achieve volume, mix, and profitability targets for medium voltage switchgear and renewable integration solutions.
• Customer Relationship Management: Build long-term relationships, understand customer needs, ensure a positive experience throughout the sales journey, and manage issue resolution.
• Sales Planning: Prepare and maintain sales plans and forecasts; monitor pipeline health and implement recovery actions when needed.
• Opportunity Development: Identify and develop new market opportunities across the renewable and grid-integration segments.
• Proposal & Offer Preparation: Effectively use switchgear configurators, pricing tools, and other sales/budget preparation systems to ensure accurate, timely, and competitive offers.

Marketing & Value Proposition: Support marketing activities and communicate value propositions aligned with strategy.

Administration & CRM: Manage sales processes, documentation, and CRM updates; support collection and order handover activities.   

Qualifications For The Role  

• HND in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Strong technical knowledge of medium-voltage switchgear and renewable integration/BESS systems.
• Proven experience in end-to-end sales, ideally within electrical infrastructure, utilities, or renewable markets.
• Experience using CRM tools such as Salesforce.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and solution-selling skills.
• You hold current Driving License valid in UK
  
  

 

Benefits  

ABB offers a full range of benefits to help you thrive at work and beyond. 

• Competitive salary 
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays 
• Competitive contributory pension scheme 
• Life assurance 
• Flexible benefits scheme (Includes options to buy/sell holidays, health checks, dental, eye care, gym memberships, cycle to work, gadget discounts and more) 

Internal mobility opportunities, mentorships & access to projects globally 

Employee Assistance Programme 

Generous employee referral scheme 

Company car

Private medical cover

Generous bonus scheme 

 

For the 6th consecutive year ABB UK has been recognised as a Top Employer in UK. Being certified as a Top Employer showcases an organisation’s dedication to a better world of work and exhibits this through excellent HR policies and people practices. 

 


More About Us  

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. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes 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.

 

Join us. Be part of the team where progress happens, industries transform, and your work shapes the world.  #RunWhatRunstheWorld.   




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