Join Our Team as a Senior Sales Manager at Johnson Electric!
Location: Vandalia
Vacancy Type: Existing Position
Schedule: Full-Time
Travel: Regular travel to customer locations, industry events, and Johnson Electric sites
As our next Senior Sales Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of expanding Johnson Electric’s presence in the data center liquid cooling market. Your expertise in commercial strategy, thermal management, pump technologies, engineered solutions, and strategic account development will be critical in opening priority accounts, securing design wins, and translating market needs into a scalable product portfolio and roadmap.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Work-Life Balance: Flexible working hours and policies that support a healthy work-life balance.
- Recognition Programs: Programs that recognize and reward employee achievements and contributions.
- Community Engagement: Opportunities to participate in community service and corporate social responsibility initiatives.
- Strong Leadership: Work under experienced and visionary leaders who guide the company towards success.
- Innovation Hubs: Access to state-of-the-art facilities and innovation hubs that foster creativity and development.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Develop and execute the go-to-market strategy for data center cooling pumps and related motion solutions across the Americas
- Identify, prioritize, and penetrate strategic accounts throughout the liquid cooling value chain
- Build relationships with commercial, engineering, product, and executive decision-makers
- Use your industry network and market credibility to create access to new customers, early-stage programs, and strategic partnerships
- Develop account strategies that define customer requirements, competitive positioning, decision processes, and the path to design-in and production awards
- Own the commercial process from opportunity identification and technical alignment through quotation, negotiation, design win, launch, and revenue ramp-up
- Translate customer and market requirements into portfolio priorities, including performance, reliability, controls, communication protocols, materials, packaging, cost, and certification requirements
- Partner with Product Management and Engineering to define the data center cooling pump portfolio and identify product or capability gaps
- Influence the product roadmap by connecting development priorities with customer demand, revenue potential, margins, investment requirements, and time to market
- Recommend where standardized solutions can be applied and where customer-specific adaptations are required
- Develop market-sizing, customer-segmentation, and competitive-intelligence analyses
- Monitor technology trends, cooling architectures, competitor offerings, and expected market adoption timelines
- Create business cases for new products, platform extensions, and strategic investments
- Establish revenue, pipeline, and design-win targets and maintain a disciplined opportunity funnel
- Provide accurate forecasts, risk assessments, and recovery plans
- Lead cross-functional pursuit teams to develop competitive solutions and secure strategic programs
- Develop customer value propositions and commercial strategies that balance competitiveness, investment recovery, and long-term profitability
- Represent Johnson Electric at customer meetings, conferences, and relevant industry forums
- Coach sales resources supporting the segment and help build organizational capability within data center cooling
What We’re Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field
- At least eight years of progressive experience in commercial leadership, business development, product management, or sales
- Relevant experience in data center cooling, liquid cooling, thermal management, pumps, fluid handling, or a closely related market
- Demonstrated success developing new customers and winning complex engineered-product programs
- Experience managing extended qualification, design-in, launch, and production cycles
- Strong knowledge of the data center cooling ecosystem, customer buying processes, application requirements, and competitive environment
- Ability to engage credibly with both technical and commercial stakeholders
- Ability to translate customer applications and technical requirements into product priorities and business cases
- Proven ability to influence product direction and lead cross-functional teams without relying solely on direct authority
- Strong strategic thinking, financial judgment, negotiation, presentation, and executive communication skills
- Ability to create structure and direction in a developing market with incomplete information
- Willingness to travel regularly based on business and customer needs
Bonus Points If You Have
- Advanced degree in Business, Engineering, or a related discipline
- Established relationships with cooling equipment OEMs, CDU manufacturers, hyperscalers, system integrators, or liquid cooling solution providers
- Experience with pump technologies and data center liquid cooling applications
- Knowledge of direct-to-chip cooling, coolant distribution units, coolant distribution loops, or immersion cooling support systems
- Experience working with controls, communications protocols, electronics cooling, or variable-speed motor technologies
- Familiarity with the reliability, certification, and technical standards associated with mission-critical cooling systems
- Experience working within a global manufacturing organization
- Experience bringing engineered products from concept through qualification and scaled production
- Proven success building new markets, developing portfolios, and mobilizing cross-functional teams around strategic growth opportunities
How to Apply
Apply online at www.johnsonelectric.com. We can’t wait to meet you!
Come join our global, inclusive & diverse team
Our purpose is to improve the quality of life of everyone we touch through our innovative motion systems. We are a truly global team bound together by our shared values. Our culture is built on the diversity, knowledge, skills, creativity, and talents that each employee brings to the company. Our people are our company’s most valuable asset. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equitable workplace where employees of different backgrounds feel valued and respected, regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity or religious background. We are committed to inspiring our employees to grow, act with ownership and find fulfilment and meaning in the work they do.
