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Business Development Manager, Americas, Data & Innovation

UL, LLC

Northbrook, ILFull-time$121–161K/yrSeen 3w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$121–161K/yr
Location
Northbrook, IL
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

UL Solutions seeks a Business Development Manager, Data & Innovation, to grow demand for digital, data, and technology-enabled offerings and shape them around customer needs. The role identifies and progresses opportunities through sellers, captures customer requirements, and supports product conversations across Sales, Technical, Product, Operations, and Marketing. It has no sales quota or commission and supports commercialization, adoption, and repeatable offerings.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Customer Requirements Gathering, nice to haveOffering Definition, nice to haveDiscovery, nice to haveCommunication, nice to havePresentation, nice to haveRelationship Management, nice to haveCross-Functional Influence, nice to haveTechnical Solutions, nice to haveRegulatory Solutions, nice to haveDigital Solutions, nice to haveSoftware-Enabled Solutions, nice to haveProduct Management, nice to haveProduct Marketing, nice to haveSolutions Consulting, nice to haveCommercialization, nice to haveTesting, Inspection and Certification, nice to haveProduct Compliance, nice to haveRegulatory Services, nice to haveMarket Access, nice to haveSoftware/SaaS, nice to haveDigital Transformation, nice to haveCybersecurity, nice to haveSubscription Offerings, nice to haveRecurring-Revenue Offerings, nice to haveCRM, nice to havePower BI, nice to haveCustomer and Commercial Analysis, nice to haveProduct Launch, nice to haveGo-to-Market Packaging, nice to have

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent, nice to have5+ Years Relevant Experience, nice to have

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

  • UL Solutions is seeking a Business Development Manager, Data & Innovation to grow demand for digital, data, and technology-enabled offerings, including AI-enabled services, Global Compliance

  • Management (GCM), and to shape those offerings around real customer needs.

  • The role connects market demand with solution expertise. The person finds and qualifies opportunities, works through sellers to progress them, and gathers the customer requirements that shape how each offering is scoped, packaged, and explained. It sits between the customer and the offering, works

across Sales, Technical, Product, Operations, and Marketing, and supports customer conversations as the product expert.

  • This is a non-commissioned role. It does not carry a sales quota or replace account ownership. Success is measured by the opportunities it opens and progresses, the quality of customer requirements it captures, and the adoption of the solutions it supports

  • Gather and document customer requirements, use cases, and unmet needs, and translate them into clear input for product and offering decisions.

  • Analyze customer, service, and market data to identify gaps in the current offering portfolio and recommend where to extend, package, or retire capability.

  • Support pricing, packaging, and positioning decisions for new and evolving digital solutions, working with Product, Finance, and Marketing.

  • Find and qualify opportunities for emerging offerings, and work through sellers and account teams to progress them.

  • Act as the product point of contact for sales, account, and global account teams on scope, capability, limitations, and fit.

  • Support solution scoping for customer opportunities, including requirements, assumptions, dependencies, and handoffs to delivery.

  • Build product collateral, demo content, discovery guides, and use cases so the offering is explained consistently and can be repeated at scale.

  • Lead product discovery sessions that start with the customer’s compliance or market access problem, not a predetermined solution.

  • Assess whether the current offering meets the need, document the gap when it does not, and bring in the right technical or regulatory expert.

  • Support pilots and early adoption, track how customers actually use the solution, and feed findings, objections, and competitive insight back to Product and leadership.

  • Support launch and commercialization of digital, software-enabled, and AI-enabled offerings, including readiness checks, launch materials, and internal training.

  • Use CRM, Power BI, usage data, and market data to track offering performance, adoption, and conversion, and to build simple business cases for investment.

  • Turn recurring custom work into standard, repeatable product components with defined scope, delivery model, and pricing.

  • Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

  • Approximately 5+ years in product management, product marketing, solutions consulting, commercialization, or a related customer-facing product role.

  • Demonstrated ability to gather customer requirements and turn them into offering definition, scope documents, or product improvements.

  • Strong discovery, communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills, and the ability to influence across functions without direct authority.

  • Working knowledge of technical, regulatory, digital, or software-enabled solutions, and the ability to explain how they work and what they deliver.

  • Self-directed, comfortable in an evolving environment, and willing to travel within the region as needed.

  • Experience in testing, inspection and certification; product compliance; regulatory services; market access; software/SaaS; digital transformation; cybersecurity; or another technical B2B environment.

  • Experience defining or commercializing software, subscription, or recurring-revenue offerings for complex enterprise customers.

  • Experience using CRM, Power BI, or similar tools to analyze customer and commercial opportunities.

  • Experience developing or launching new products, service offerings, pilots, or go-to-market packages.

  • For the Europe position, familiarity with regional data-privacy and outreach requirements.

Preferred

  • Experience in testing, inspection and certification; product compliance; regulatory services; market access; software/SaaS; digital transformation; cybersecurity; or another technical B2B environment.

  • Experience defining or commercializing software, subscription, or recurring-revenue offerings for complex enterprise customers.

  • Experience using CRM, Power BI, or similar tools to analyze customer and commercial opportunities.

  • Experience developing or launching new products, service offerings, pilots, or go-to-market packages.

  • For the Europe position, familiarity with regional data-privacy and outreach requirements.

  • Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $120800- $161000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday and personal days (totaling 12 days), and sick time off (72 hours)

UL LLC has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To assure full implementation of this equal employment policy, we will take steps to assure that:

Persons are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, color, age, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, religion, creed, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, ancestry, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, marital or familial status, or any other protected category under applicable law.

How this job compares

Set against the 20,566 open Business Development jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$121–161K/yr
  • Illinois median$120–180K/yr578 salary ranges
  • US median$125–197K/yr14,613 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $141K, is 7% below the Illinois median midpoint ($151K) — in the middle half of Business Development salary ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 710 open Business Development jobs in Illinois and 20,566 across the US. 13% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Business Development postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (16,377 postings).
Education
6,252 of the 20,566 open Business Development jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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