EV Charging Infrastructure - Energy Storage - Market Development

Market Development Role

The Company

LeadingAheadEnergy (LAE) is a rapidly growing company specializing in the delivery of

electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure projects. Over the last 10 years, we've been an independent advisor and supplier, we adopt a technology-agnostic approach, providing our clients with access to the most effective EV charging solutions and energy storage available in the market.

LAE offers comprehensive turnkey solutions, guiding clients from design specification advice in the pre- construction phase to supply, installation, project management, and ongoing operation of EV charging infrastructure and energy storage. Our projects span across Canada and the USA.

Position Overview:

The Market Development role at LAE is a pivotal role in ensuring the company's success. Working within the sales team, the market development position will be at the forefront of developing new strategic alliances in key verticals. This position provides a multitude of opportunities within the sale cycle including attending first prospect contacts, various events, trade shows, lunch & earns, and learning from our project management team and grow within our team. This is a critical position as the sales department is the bloodstream of a company which is imperative for the applicant to understand.

The role is located at our Downtown Vancouver office and will allow for occasional work-from-home as we strongly believe in team building and cooperation.

Description:

The role opened position is to fill the need of a fast-growing company requiring

additional market development support.

- Prospect new clients (email, phone, networking, publishing)

- Generating new leads

- Creating new market prospecting lists

- Update CRM during the whole sales cycle

- Meet sales objectives and targets

- Schedule meetings

- Assist and support on preparation of proposals and estimates

- Build long-term relationships with clients

- Reach out and partner with local associations

- Learn industry government incentives within target markets

- Become familiar with and learn about the industry

- Conduct lunch & learns with key target market

- Attend industry events.

- Attend conferences.

What We Are Looking For

- Strong knowledge and experience in the electric vehicle charging industry

- Experience in sales

- Being resilient, efficient, and hard-working

- Self-Motivated & Driven individual

- Bilingual French/English is a huge plus

- Ability to work in an office

- Undergraduate Degree

- Knowledge in the real estate/construction industry a plus

- Great social skills

- Experience working with/in Real Estate

- Looking to grow within our company

The Right Candidate & Culture

LeadingAhead Energy (LAE) offers an entrepreneurship culture with a lot of room to grow in a fast-paced fast-growing industry. Being an industry leader and using a vendor-agnostic approach, the environment provides the best ground to learn about the overall industry instead of a single product offering. LeadingAhead Energy is rapidly evolving, and so will the position. LAE provides the perfect work environment for anyone striving for an intrapreneurship role in which growing with the company is highly valued. We are looking for someone highly motivated in their work and career progression.

The ability to come to our Vancouver office is mandatory. There will be some flexibility for hybrid work but mainly at the office as we believe in in-person relationship building with other co-workers and learning.

Compensation:

Base Salary + commission, bonus & benefits

About LeadingAhead Energy

Who we are

LeadingAhead Energy (LAE) is a Canadian-based company providing electric vehicle charging

infrastructure expertise. We advise and supply governments, corporate fleets, and the real estate sector on the deployment of their EV charging infrastructure. We are independent, technology agnostic, and an advocate of the Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP), delivering the right charging solution for each location. You’ll be working with a small, young, and dynamic team eager to grow and

become an industry leader.

What We Do

LAE provides a turnkey solution to delivering EV charging and energy storage projects from

consulting, design, specification, hardware procurement, project management, installation, and maintenance. Having access to many different solutions, hardware, and software, we provide both portfolio-level strategic advice and site-level technical expertise. We add value to clients’ projects by ensuring the charging service is future-proofed and delivers on the business case.

About the Industry

If you haven’t heard about electric vehicles or energy storage by now, you are most likely not the right fit for this position. The industry is currently booming and evolving rapidly, whether it is in the charging infrastructure space, battery energy storage systems, fleet electrification, EV networks, and

everything in between. With an estimated $125B in investment needed by 2030 to support the EV growth and support the grid, room for growth and opportunities are substantial.