Business Development Manager - North America
Serenitysolution
PittsburghLead / Manager2–4 yrs
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The job in short
Business development for North America.
Customer support
Details
- Found
- 22 d ago · posted 2026-10-03
- Location as listed
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Role
- Business Development
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
Job Description:
Directly responsible for growing sales and market share of expendables in North America - accountable to achieve sales targets for expendables:
• Manage & support local distributor in growing sales
• Provide technical support to NA customers with support from central technical teams in Europe.
• Support expendable installation at customer site if/when required.
• In permanent contact with the various internal departments, ensure timely and qualitative processing and delivery of expendable quotes and orders.
Responsible for hot and cold repairs in North America:
• Main point of contact for emergency repairs or planned maintenance operations.
• Manage relationship with local installation partners. Provide information and training on our range of solutions.
• Coordinate with SEFPRO technical experts to recommend best solutions for customer repairs.
• Follow-up and coordinate supply of material for repair projects from our local inventory.
• Provide onsite customer support for product installation. Collaborate with installation companies & partners during installation of Care products.
Field sales role to cultivate customer proximity and identify opportunities for all SEFPRO solutions:
• Represent SEFPRO in our customer plants - follow-up on performance of our solutions (furnace refractories, expendables, monitoring installations...)
• Present all range of SEFPRO solutions as required. Identify cross-selling opportunities and generate leads for NA sales team. Strong collaboration with NA sales managers.
• Generate & follow-up on quotes for opportunities identified during visits (expendables, repairs, services).
• Support with 3D scans and other service interventions at customer plants.
• Support sales managers in SEFPRO Care and expendable promotion to their customers.
Required Experience:
• This role must have technical expertise in the glass industry, industrial ceramics, materials and/or refractories. Willingness to learn all about glass furnaces and their operations with a focus on refractories.
• 2-4 years of professional experience, ideally related to glass production or refractories. Recent graduates in Ceramics will also be considered.
• The position must also possess the ability to build strong relationships with customers and influence customer decision making through effective communication, material knowledge, and understanding of customer requirements.
• This candidate must also be a dedicated, self-starter with a high degree of motivation. Reactive to customer requests and driven to grow and develop a business.
• Willingness to travel >75% of the time for customer site visits primarily in North America.
MUST HAVE
• This role must have technical expertise in the glass industry, industrial ceramics, materials and/or refractories. Willingness to learn all about glass furnaces and their operations with a focus on refractories.
• 2-4 years of professional experience, ideally related to glass production or refractories. Recent graduates in Ceramics will also be considered.
• Ability to build strong relationships with customers and influence customer decision making through effective communication, material knowledge, and understanding of customer requirements.
• This candidate must also be a dedicated, self-starter with a high degree of motivation. Reactive to customer requests and driven to grow and develop a business.
• Willingness to travel >75% of the time for customer site visits primarily in North America.
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