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Charlotte, Nc, Us

Munich, De

• Serve as a contributing member of the 20-person US Executive Leadership Team, providing insight into both functional and business leadership across the spectrum of sustainability topics, jointly guiding the ~$22B US operations and business execution.• Create and chair the US DEGREE Steering Committee, enabling action across the DEGREE framework and uniting the US regional sustainability efforts, resulting in emissions reduction, waste reduction, product eco-design, and employee engagement.• Oversee execution of Siemens’ DEGREE Sustainability program, emphasizing decarbonization and resource efficiency.• Initiate, develop, and lead the 12-member US Sustainability Business Roundtable, facilitating cross-business engagement strategy and solution development throughout the US market.• Creating maximum impact by building rapport with, and maintaining, executive-level relationships with Fortune 500 customers, suppliers, government entities, coalitions, and partners.• Participate in Siemens’ global sustainability working groups, serving as a leader in the global community with action in the US region.• Guide US business units in developing go-to-market strategy addressing customer sustainability challenges, resulting in competitive and profitable business growth opportunities.• Engage with stakeholders, participate in industry events, and communicate with the media as a thought leader and subject matter expert pertaining to operational emissions reduction, public- private partnerships, and regulatory strategy.• Drive cross-functional initiatives including fleet electrification, renewable energy purchasing, facility decarbonization, and 50% supply chain emissions reduction.• Led US engagement with The Climate Group, UN, WEF, WBCSD, US DOE, Corporate Eco Forum, in addition to other national and regional industry organizations

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Led the development of national, multi-million-dollar projects that included renewable and distributed energy generation, transportation electrification, digital grid solutions, and battery storage for the utility, public power, developer, and private equity verticals.• Spearheaded virtual power purchase agreement effort to decarbonize Siemens’ US energy consumption in a market positive and REC cost saving manner, including roadmap for vPPA execution, renewable project developer relationships.• Administer energy’s sustainable fleet initiative with customer and eMobility electrification partnerships.• Served as US point of contact for investor and customer driven sustainability-related requests as apart of Global Sustainability Network.• Drove cross-business, solution-based engagements to leverage the offerings and expandbusiness opportunities.• Challenged business unit teams to identify white spaces beyond core business and leveragecompany opportunities to create solutions with tangible value.Driving change with Utilities, Developers and Consultants and bringing value to their businesses and their customers.

Munich, De

• Managed firm’s comprehensive Energy portfolio of products, services, and solutions, representing the nation’s largest electric utility company as well as regional industry leaders.• Achieved $35M in sales, securing 10 new equipment and transactional service contracts.• Renegotiated and extended $200M+ in long-term service agreements, applying industry expertise,relationship management, and negotiations skills to ensure competitive terms and contracts.• Strengthened relationships with executives and professionals in matrixed customer organizations.• Led diverse teams through opportunity development phases to project award and execution• Drove sales strategy by maintaining energy market knowledge, remaining abreast of best prices,and identifying competitive priorities.• Selected for Pilot Team to expand SalesForce functionality within the sales organization tomanage opportunity pipelines and financial tracking effectively.

Munich, De

• Developed proposals, negotiated contracts, managed the marketing strategy, and oversaw customer relations, focusing on steam turbine service product line.• Led the sales, legal, tendering, and engineering groups to develop and execute contracts.• Exceeded targets, averaging $18M in annual orders; entered with $9M in margin representing 200 components and 40,000 hours of shop labor.• Penetrated competitor-designed equipment to increase factory service market share by 5%.• Managed marketing responsibilities for domestic and international customers.• Provided long-term financial forecasting and contributed to the prioritization of engineeringResearch & Development (R&D) opportunities.• Grew product line into international market, bringing foreign-owned equipment into US business.• Launched career as Product Line Intern, advancing to Field Service Engineer prior to roles highlighted.

Munich, De

Oversaw power generation maintenance and improvement projects across the countryDirected teams of craft labor supervisors, Siemens technicians and craft personnel in the safe performance of various work scopes on customer owned equipment including schedule and resource managementDirect customer engagement, providing solutions to technical problems and concerns to ensure successful project execution