Cooling Service Business Development Manager for Europe

6 ore fa

Monselice, Veneto, Italia Schneider Electric Tempo pieno

Role

Accelerate profitable growth of the Cooling Services business (air & liquid cooling) across INTERNATIONAL (INT) Region MEA, SAM, PACIFIC, with a strong focus on Data Centers and mission-critical environments.

The role drives 100% Cooling Service Adoption, maximizes CAPEX-to-OPEX conversion, expands lifecycle service penetration, and ensures consistent Go-to-Market execution across countries-especially in IG, C&SP, Neo-Cloud and OEM customers.

Key Responsibilities Area

  • Business Growth
    • Deliver Orders, Sales, and Gross Margin targets for INT
    • Build and deploy together the Region the Cooling Service Playbook by country/zone
    • Cooling service 100% Adoption Rate on Greenfield projects
    • Expand service penetration on the Installed Base: contracts, future digital service, spare parts, modernization.
    • Increase service attach on greenfield (air & liquid cooling), adapting the tactics vs different customer business model
  • Go-to-Market & Sales Enablement
    • Implement & Deploy Cooling Service GTM across Sales, Service, and Channel teams.
    • Focus on strategic verticals (hyperscale, colo, OEM in particular).
    • Support pricing discipline and value based positioning.
    • Share best practices across countries.
  • Account & Opportunity Development
    • Support multi country key accounts with strong commercial governance.
    • Lead value storytelling (uptime, risk reduction, energy efficiency, lifecycle TCO).
    • Enable high quality pursuit reviews, tenders, and retrofit/modernization programs.
  • Offer Adoption & Lifecycle Services
    • Accelerate adoption of new Cooling Service offers (including liquid cooling frameworks).
    • Standardize scopes: start up, commissioning, PM, modernization and future digital service
    • Provide customer insights to Product/Engineering for offer evolution and competitiveness.
  • Sales Operations & Performance Management
    • Ensure pipeline and weekly/monthly forecast accuracy.
    • Drive quote to order excellence with Tendering, Operations, and Finance.
    • Align with Service Delivery teams on readiness, quality, and customer commitments.
  • Customer Experience
    • In collaboration with operation team, ensure contract performance, SLA adherence, and customer satisfaction.
    • Support on very critical escalation.

Required Experience & Competencies

  • 5+ years in B2B service sales/business development in cooling, HVAC, or data center infrastructure (with important mechanical experience)
  • Proven track record in service led growth, contracts, aftermarket, modernization.
  • Experience in multi country roles and matrix organizations.
  • Strong commercial, technical, and executive level stakeholder management.
  • Strong pipeline governance capabilities
  • Problem solving

Leadership Profile

  • Strong accountability and disciplined execution.
  • Data-driven mindset and results orientation.
  • Ability to influence without direct authority.
  • Clear, structured, and strong communication under pressure.
  • Customer-centric approach.

Key Linkages (Internal & External Networks)

  • Internal Stakeholders
    • Service VPs (Countries and Zones)
    • Sales VPs and Sales Directors (IG, C&SP, OEM, Global Accounts)
    • Business Development Managers / Segment Leaders
    • VP Service Operations & Country Service Directors
    • Tendering / Pricing / Finance teams
    • Global Service & Cooling LOBs
    • Offer Management, Marketing, Engineering
  • External Stakeholders
    • Hyperscale & Colocation providers
    • OEM partners (Dell, Lenovo, others)
    • Service partners & channel ecosystem
    • Engineering firms, consultants, integrators
    • Data Center and mission-critical end-users.

What we offer

  • Flexibility at work;
  • Exciting job in an international company, with opportunities o lead and contribute to different projects collaborating with cross-region teams;
  • Special training tailored to your needs and career goals;
  • Opportunity to develop based on clear career paths, to grow through experience and exposure;
  • An environment where employees have equal opportunities to reach their fullest potential, depending on performance and personal aspirations;
  • Global Family Leave program;
  • Ticket restaurant or meal at canteen;
  • Shareholding plans;
  • Welfare programs that can be extended to your family;
  • Health insurance and Professional/extraprofessional accident insurance;
  • In line with our commitment to pay transparency and equal opportunities, we would like to share the salary range for this posi