Channel Account Specialist - Eastern Region
- Montreal, QC, Canada
- Saint-Laurent, QC, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience in customer support, inside sales, technical sales support, channel operations, or electrical distribution.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
In this role, you will serve as a key operational partner to ABB’s distributor network, providing day-to-day support, technical product guidance, and commercial decision-making to ensure exceptional customer experience.
Working closely with Sales, Product Marketing, and other internal teams, you will help strengthen distributor relationships, streamline processes, and make ABB easier to do business with.
The work model for the role is: Hybrid
This role is contributing to the Electrification, Smart Power, Smart Buildings business unit in Canada.
This role reports to the: Sales Support Manager
Your Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary day-to-day operational contact for assigned distributors, building strong relationships, coordinating inquiries, and ensuring timely resolution of customer needs.
- Provide technical assistance for ABB low-voltage (LV) products, including product selection, specifications, configurations, and application guidance, while coordinating advanced inquiries with Product Marketing and subject matter experts.
- Make informed pricing decisions based on market conditions, competitive positioning, and established guidelines. Support Special Pricing Agreements and quotations, escalating matters beyond delegated authority to the appropriate teams.
- Guide channel partners in effectively using ABB digital platforms, including Empower and other self-service solutions, to improve efficiency and customer independence.
- Support the onboarding of new distributor partners, coordinate access to ABB tools and resources, and collaborate with internal teams to facilitate product training and enablement activities.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, resolve recurring challenges, strengthen cross-functional collaboration, and enhance the overall distributor experience.
- Travel approximately 10–15% of the time to support distributor visits, customer meetings, training sessions, and regional events.
- College diploma or university degree in Business Administration, Electrical Engineering Technology, Sales, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in customer support, inside sales, technical sales support, channel operations, or electrical distribution.
- Strong customer service, communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate effectively across departments.
- Familiarity with low-voltage electrical products, technical applications, and distribution channels is an asset.
- Experience with ABB products, Empower, Salesforce, SAP, or similar business platforms is preferred.
- Proficiency in French is mandatory, as well as English in order to communicate effectively with internal clients and partners located outside of Quebec.
We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You’ll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that’s tailored to your goals.
Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger.
ABB may utilize Artificial Intelligence (AI)–enabled tools as part of its recruitment and selection processes. These tools are used solely to support and enhance decision-making; final hiring decisions are made by ABB recruitment professionals.
ABB is committed to ensuring that all recruitment practices are conducted in a fair, transparent, and non-discriminatory manner, in compliance with applicable laws.
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- Women
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- Members of visible minorities
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More about this job
Responsibilities
Serve as the day-to-day operational contact for assigned distributors, providing low-voltage product guidance, pricing and quotation support, and assistance with ABB digital platforms. Support distributor onboarding and training, resolve recurring issues, improve processes, and travel regionally to meet distributors and customers.
Requirements
A college diploma, university degree, or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field is required, along with more than eight years of relevant experience. Strong customer service, communication, relationship-building, and problem-solving abilities are needed; French is mandatory, and English is required for communication with partners and internal clients outside Quebec.
Skills
- Customer Service
- Relationship Building
- Problem Solving
- Distributor Support
- Technical Product Guidance
- Low-Voltage Electrical Products
- Pricing Decisions
- Quotation Support
- Channel Operations
- Sales Support
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Process Improvement
- Distributor Onboarding
- Product Training
- Digital Platform Support
- French and English Proficiency
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Sales
- Customer Service & Support
- Engineering
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- ABB
- Electrification
- Smart Power
- Smart Buildings
- Low-Voltage Electrical Products
- Electrical Distribution
- Distributor Network
- Channel Operations
- Customer Support
- Inside Sales
- Technical Sales Support
- Product Selection
- Product Specifications
- Product Configurations
- Application Guidance
- Pricing
- Special Pricing Agreements
- Quotations
- Empower
- Salesforce
- SAP
- Distributor Onboarding
- Product Training
- Process Improvement
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- French
- English