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Solution Development Lead

Dematic

Grand Rapids, MI · HybridFull-time$102–130K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$102–130K/yr
Location
Grand Rapids, MIHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Solution Development Lead evaluates new and renewal service opportunities, including Resident Maintenance, and develops customer-focused costing and proposal information. The role collaborates across departments to create safe, low-risk, competitive solutions, may lead proposal teams and present results to Sales or customers, and facilitates project transitions to operations after contract award.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Proposal Team Leadership, nice to haveWritten Communication, nice to haveVerbal Communication, nice to haveOpportunity Management, nice to haveForecasting, nice to haveProposal Status Reporting, nice to have

Qualifications

BS/BA in Related Discipline or Advanced Degree, nice to have5+ Years Related Experience, nice to haveTravel Up to 20%, nice to have

Full job description

The Solution Development Lead is responsible for the evaluation of new and renewal services representing all services Dematic has to offer including Resident Maintenance in which they will develop costing focused on the customer’s Dematic solution(s) and needs. Pertinent information will be documented and provided in support of preparing successful and accurate proposals. They will work with all departments of Dematic to develop safe, low risk, creative and competitive solutions to meet a client’s needs. Where appropriate, they will lead the proposal team in its efforts and present the results to Dematic Sales and possibly to the potential customer. After contract award, they will be expected to facilitate the transition of the project to the operations team. We offer: What We Offer:

  • Career Development
  • Competitive Compensation and Benefits
  • Pay Transparency
  • Global Opportunities

Dematic provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Learn More Here: https://www.dematic.com/en-us/about/careers/what-we-offer

The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $102,400 - $130,000 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge, and skills.

Tasks and Qualifications: What You Will Do In This Role:

  • Works on medium to large sized, individual projects, where design is complex integrating hardware and software.

  • Analyzes customers' business requirements and application objectives; develops an application design in products to meet customers' needs and uptime guarantees

  • Will understand customer operations as well as Dematic products which will then derive staffing levels needed for success as needed

  • Able to bundle service offerings that are a perfect complement to our new business system solutions

  • Generates all costing workbooks for opportunities and services assigned

  • Develops and documents the data need to generate a proposal document and work with the proposal team to ensure accuracy.

  • Assist in the development of new proposal content for new services.

  • Monitors assignment schedule and partners with sales on missing information for assignment completion.

  • Assists with the maintenance of the Dematic proposal boiler plates as assigned.

  • Respond to semi-complex inquiries related to the iProposal tool design, functionality, and usage

  • Initiates reviews with operation stakeholders on costing methodologies and adjusts as needed.

  • Coordinates meetings with Sales and Operations to discuss renewals that fall outside the standard costs and documents the agreements.

  • Able to manage multiple priorities and work with key stake holders to ensure that all assignments are not only accurate, but are completed on time, according to target completion dates. Conducts training sessions covering specified areas such as estimating standards, sales proposal standards, etc. to the Business Development department.

  • Performs complex technical interchange and knowledge transfer for both processes and application of products to system design.

  • This role requires flexibility to work remotely as needed based on business demands.

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What We Are Looking For:

  • BS/BA in related discipline or advanced degree
  • 5-8 years of successful experience in related field. Advanced degree may be substituted for experience, where applicable.
  • Ability to lead, direct, motivate, and coordinate activities of a proposal team
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to manage multiple opportunities with various deadlines simultaneously.
  • Reliably forecast and report out on proposal status
  • Travel up to 20% of the time.

How this job compares

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

Pay
  • This posting$102–130K/yr
  • Michigan median$125–200K/yr236 salary ranges
  • US median$125–197K/yr14,613 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $116K, is 30% below the Michigan median midpoint ($166K) — in the middle half of Business Development salary ranges in Michigan.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 401 open Business Development jobs in Michigan and 20,566 across the US. 13% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Michigan
Experience
Business Development postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 4 to 10 years (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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