Position Title: Business Development Specialist - Renewable Energy
Company Profile:
National Semiconductor creates analog-intensive solutions that differentiate customers' products by providing lower power consumption, higher speed, greater precision, increased portability, better audio and sharper images in electronics systems. National’s leading-edge, energy-efficient analog products enhance personal mobile devices (cellphones, smartphones and MP3 players), LED lighting and electronics such as medical, automotive, and test and measurement equipment. Its SolarMagic technology, launched in 2008, is built upon National’s analog and power management circuits and provides enhanced energy output of solar arrays. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., National reported sales of $1.46 billion for its most recent fiscal year.
Job Description:
National Semiconductor leverages a 50-year tradition of power management to deliver solar products for the real world. With the capacity to deliver solar innovation at scale, National builds reliability into its products from the ground up. National’s new solar power management product line is designed to improve photovoltaic system efficiency by enabling precise control and performance optimization at the module level. SolarMagic™ power optimizers are the perfect solution to the real world problems facing home or business solar system owners. SolarMagic technology enables each solar panel to produce maximum energy regardless of whether other panels are under-performing due to mismatch. This advanced technology monitors and maximizes the energy harvest of each individual solar panel and reclaims up to 57% of energy lost to real world mismatch conditions.
In the Business Development Specialist role you will help strengthen our market position in the inverter/PV array ecosystem by tracking and executing multiple relationships with inverter partners and collaborators. Your specific responsibilities will include:
1. Use disciplined organizational skills to track numerous projects at many levels of technical and business detail.
2. Locate or propose potential business deals by contacting potential partners; discovering and exploring opportunities.
3. Screen potential business deals by analyzing market strategies, deal requirements, potential, and financials; evaluating options; resolving internal and external priorities.
4. Develop negotiation strategies and positions by studying integration of new venture with company strategies and operations; examining risks and potentials; estimating partners' needs and goals.
5. Close new business deals by coordinating requirements; developing and negotiating contracts; integrating contract requirements with business operations.
6. Motivate partners to pursue mutual strategies of collaboration and co-development.
Required skills and qualitications: BS or equivalent, detail oriented, proficient project management skills, closing skills, power inverter market knowledge, sound presentation Skills, a high energy Level, and demonstrated professionalism.
As an equal opportunity employer, National Semiconductor encourages and supports a diverse workplace. |