Manager, Energy Services Business Development

What Makes a Honda, is Who Makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it's a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company that serves as a source of "power" that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential.

To this end, Honda strives to realize "the joy and freedom of mobility" by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a "zero environmental footprint."

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team. If your goals and values align with Honda's, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

The Business Development & Energy Solutions Lead drives the development, validation, and execution of strategic business initiatives from concept through implementation. This role is responsible for identifying opportunities, evaluating customer and business value, developing business cases, and driving cross-functional execution to achieve organizational objectives. Projects may include customer solutions, new business models, and commercialization efforts. Examples include initiatives involving solar, battery energy storage systems (BESS), electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE), building loads, and other distributed energy resources.

This position leads validation of business concepts, customer value propositions, and implementation approaches through pilot programs, proofs of concept, and customer co-creation initiatives. Working with internal teams and external stakeholders, the role evaluates customer value, feasibility, economics, operational impacts, and scalability. Validation efforts are translated into business recommendations, standardized offerings, and execution plans that support management investment and commercialization decisions. Examples may include evaluating demand reduction opportunities, energy cost savings, optimized facility operations, decarbonization benefits, and improved resilience.

The Bus Dev Lead engages customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to advance opportunities from concept through implementation, including:

• Customer problem discovery
• Solution and proposal development
• Proof-of-concept execution
• Commercial agreement development
• Multi-site deployment

This role incorporates customer requirements, market conditions, utility programs, incentives, tax policies, regulatory factors, and business objectives into project planning and execution.

As a senior project leader operating across business, sales, technology, customer, and organizational functions, the position independently develops strategies, aligns stakeholders, and drives execution to deliver measurable business outcomes. This role is expected to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, establish direction where precedents may not exist, and translate ideas into executable plans that support organizational goals.

The Business Development Lead is responsible for managing direct reports and/or leading cross-functional project teams by setting clear expectations, aligning responsibilities with business priorities, and providing coaching and development support. This role promotes accountability, removes execution barriers, fosters collaboration, and enables teams to deliver high-quality results that support business, commercialization, and operational objectives.

Strategy Planning:

• Develop vision, strategy, roadmap and business models for B2B / BEMS business through thorough business model development guidelines and principles.

Business Validation:

• Lead multi-layered and multi-site PoCs with defined hypothesis, success criteria and delivering clear validation points for decision gates.
• Evaluate customer value, economics and business viability through defining rigorous analytical guidelines and…