Business Development Manager – Turnaround Strategy and Origination

Business Development Manager – Turnaround Strategy and Origination

Location(s)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana | Houston, Texas | Wichita, Kansas

Koch Specialty Plant Services (KSPS), a Koch Engineered Solutions Company, is adding a Business Development Manager – Turnaround Strategy and Origination to our Commercial team. This role will be based at one of our facilities in Houston, TX, Wichita, KS, or Baton Rouge, LA.

This is a national overlay role built for someone who creates turnaround opportunity before it appears in the pipeline, through relationships, collaboration, research, data analysis, and market insight, not by managing accounts we already serve.

This role is deliberately distinct from our regional account management roles. Regional Account Managers protect and grow the day‑to‑day turnaround relationships at their plants. This role works across territories—studying turnaround cycles, schedules, and industry trends to surface scope, timing, and opportunities that don't show up in day‑to‑day account work. You'll operate at the market level in refining, petrochemical, and chemicals, engaging decision‑makers 18–36 months ahead of a formal RFQ.

In this role, you will originate and shape new businesses across Turnaround Services. You’ll collaborate internally, engage with key decision‑makers long before a formal RFQ surfaces—turnaround opportunities for new and existing customers, building pipelines, and translating our technical capabilities into market‑winning value propositions. You will work on a national footprint, aligned to market and capability rather than a single region or site.

This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship.

What You Will Do

• Develop creative solutions and value propositions that align customer needs with our competitive advantages
• Lead sales strategy development—defining where to play and how to win across markets, customers, and service lines

Opportunity Creation & Pipeline Development

• Identify and pursue new market whitespace before formal demand exists—building pipeline without relying on inbound opportunities
• Develop and manage a long‑cycle pursuit pipeline across target markets and customers
• Shape demand early in the customer planning cycle—engaging at pre‑RFQ stages to influence scope and competitive positioning
• Build relationships and map decision‑makers across target accounts in refining, petrochemical, and chemicals markets
• Engage with industry networks to develop new channels and strategic partnerships
• Gather and apply voice‑of‑customer insights to shape commercial strategy and differentiated service offerings
• Build and maintain a forward‑looking map of industry turnaround schedules and cycles (refining/petrochemical/chemical) to anticipate where and when major scope will emerge
• Leverage and synthesize data from KES's market analysis team and KSPS commercial operations—sales, Salesforce pipeline, forecast, and win/loss—to surface patterns, underpenetrated accounts, and recurring whitespace the regional view can miss
• Track market trends—regulatory drivers, unit/capacity changes, reliability and feedstock shifts, decarbonization and retrofit activity—and translate into turnaround opportunities
• Develop data‑driven account and market prioritization: where to play, where we're already first‑choice, and where competitors are exposed
• Produce opportunity briefs and trend analyses that give Regional Account Managers and leadership foresight, not just current‑state status

Internal Leadership & Collaboration

• Bring the right subject matter experts into the right conversations at the right time to advance pursuits
• Partner across organizational capabilities to integrate long‑cycle opportunities into execution plans
• Represent the voice of the market internally—translating customer and market intelligence into actionable strategies

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in business development, strategic sales, or commercial origination within industrial services
• Demonstrated ability to build pipeline, sales plans, and win business that was not previously in play
• Proven track record engaging decision‑makers with industrial end users
• Comfort operating in long, ambiguous sales…