Business Development Engineer (North Central) - Amphenol Aerospace Operations

The Role -

Amphenol Aerospace is seeking a Business Development Engineer to work remote from a home office.

The Business Development Engineer will drive strategic growth by identifying and securing new business opportunities. This role blends deep technical expertise with commercial strategy to expand our market footprint. The Business Development Engineer will engage directly with potential customers and our distribution channels to position Amphenol products for early-stage design wins..

The key responsibilities of the Business Development Engineer include, but are not limited to:

• Market Development: Engage potential customers and distribution channel partners in technical discussions to uncover and qualify new business opportunities.
• Channel Collaboration: Partner closely with the AMAO OEM sales team and franchised distributors to align sales strategies, provide technical enablement, and maximize market reach.
• Performance Tracking: Provide regular reports and updates as required to keep leadership informed of pipeline health, channel performance, and growth metrics.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with Product Marketing, Sales, and Engineering teams to rapidly convert qualified leads into tailored product design solutions.
• Relationship Management: Build and maintain responsive, technically credible relationships with key client customer stakeholders and channel partners.
• Market Intelligence: Perform data analytics, market research, and technology trend tracking to identify untapped market sectors.
• Manufacturing Capability Integration: Maintain a general understanding of internal and vendor manufacturing capabilities to appropriately guide client solutions.
• Requirements Gathering: Define and provide initial inputs for product manufacturing and testing requirements based on customer needs.
• Technical Compliance: Interface with customers, channel partners, and vendors to ensure strict conformance to custom application requirements.
• Design Interpretation: Interpret customer and internal drawings or 3D files to assess application feasibility.
• Conceptual Modeling: Communicate technical design advantages and conceptual models to external partners and internal manufacturing teams.

Salary: $90,000 - $130,000

The Person -

The key skills and qualities of a Business Development Engineer at Amphenol Aerospace:

• Education: B.S. degree in Engineering; Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering preferred.
• Technical Tools: Ability to leverage CAD and ProE applications to interpret, evaluate, and redline designs to meet specific customer requirements.
• Collaboration: Strong aptitude for working across internal and external cross-functional engineering, manufacturing, and commercial teams.
• Communication: Proven ability to translate complex design advantages into compelling business value for customers and channel partners, while accurately relaying market needs back to internal teams.
• Mobility: Willingness to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally or as required to cultivate customer and distributor relationships

The Company -

With manufacturing sites in Sidney, NY, Mesa, AZ, Nogales, MX, and a Design Center in Pasadena, CA, Amphenol Aerospace Operations has been a leader in designing and manufacturing electrical components for the aviation and commercial airplane industry for over 100 years.

Focusing on serving the needs of advanced and challenging market segments, we pride ourselves on our consistent ability to innovate and provide the markets with new creative solutions.

Working at Amphenol means you are recognized and valued for your contributions because we believe that our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. We support and encourage career development for all employees and have ample opportunities for advancement.

We pride ourselves for being customer-centric, accountable, reliable, and enthusiastic in all that we do. These values are ingrained in each of us and contribute to a culture of teamwork and meaningful work.

Amphenol offers competitive pay and benefits. The candidate must be able to legally work in the United States; we are unable to provide sponsorship. This position requires access to controlled technology that is subject to US export controls. Qualified candidates must be a US person (including US Citizen, lawful permanent resident, or protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)) or eligible to obtain required authorization(s) from the U.S. Government.

Amphenol is a proud Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status. We aim to create an inclusive working environment where all employees are respected and treated equally.

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