Help Current Train the Industry on Lighting

Is lighting “in your blood”? Do you like sharing knowledge with people? Being in the thick of industry discussions? Enjoy talking about the “technicality” of lighting and what drives the need for improved lighting?

If you’re a “lighting junkie”, Current has a role for you as it’s Lighting Industry and Education Liaison.

About the Role

The Lighting Industry & Education Liaison is a diverse role where you’ll represent Current Lighting as a lighting, controls, and software industry expert, thought leader and the lighting conglomerate of choice.

This role is a part of the marketing team, aligning their efforts with the overall Current marketing strategy and plan. You will collaborate cross-functionally with leadership, sales, and product management teams to develop a robust plan for reaching targeted personas. Through industry insights and engagement this role will drive Current thought leadership through education.

This role will present and delight a broad range of channel partners, specifiers, and contractors across Current’s multi-faceted training platform. The Lighting Industry & Education Liaison monitors and articulates emerging trends, market intelligence and is highly connected throughout the lighting industry.

In this role you will transform and elevate the experience delivered at Current’s Institute training facilities.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead trainer
  • Create a training environment for visitors that provides an interactive and engaging customer experience to increase channel partner’s technical knowledge of Current’s industry leading brands and portfolio of solutions.
  • Own the Lighting Institute curriculum development for classroom and online training including accredited continuing education (CEU) courses.
  • Energized by customer engagement and can effectively optimize the opportunity to capture VOC and provide real-time feedback to the organization.
  • Continuous improvement advocate searching for innovative training methods, techniques and technology that improve the overall customer experience.
• Lighting advocate
  • The Lighting Industry & Education Liaison will represent Current at industry events, conferences, and trade shows and supplementing for guest speaker roles in conjunction with our leadership team.
  • In depth knowledge and understanding of the lighting industry, go to market channels and personas with ability to customize training methods and techniques that target specifiers, designers, architects, engineers, and contractors to name a few.
• Administrative
  • Develop, track, and reconcile the annual budget based on maintaining training facilities, hospitality events and continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Responsible for establishing clear KPIs to both track and measure performance and ensure outcomes yield greater ROI.

The role reports to the Director of Channel Marketing and Training.

Qualifications

• BS degree in relevant field and 9+ years lighting related experience a plus.
• Lighting Certification (LC) from NCQLP a plus
• Additional License and Certifications: Professional Engineer (PE), LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) preferred.
• Participating member of industry associations such as IES.
• Solid technical understanding of lighting and its related subjects including light and energy, electricity, various light sources, optics, and lighting control systems.
• Sales and/or product marketing experience in lighting and/or lighting controls preferred.
• Project management experience managing multiple deadlines across a broad scope of projects.
• Ability to share Current’s brand story and who we are as an organization and well-versed discussing product specification. When talking about product, ability to articulate a product’s features, advantages, and benefits during a customer presentation.

The position is lighting “down South” … in Greenville, SC.

Click here to learn and apply to be Current’s next Lighting Industry & Education Liaison.