Negotiation Training for Energy Teams That Power Performance

When every conversation impacts safety, sustainability, and margin—your team needs more than instinct. 

RED BEAR helps energy sales and procurement teams navigate complex deals, manage suppliers, and close with control, no matter the market cycle.

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High-Stakes Industry. Higher-Stakes Conversations.

 
In energy and chemicals, negotiations aren’t casual—they’re contracts that impact safety, sustainability, and the bottom line.

And when the stakes are this high, your teams can’t afford to “wing it.”

RED BEAR delivers the process, system, and tools your team needs to protect value, build supplier alignment, and drive better commercial outcomes.

Sound Familiar?

 
Here’s what energy teams wrestle with every day:

Sales:

Long sales cycles and capital-intensive deals…

Require structured negotiation planning and internal alignment across legal, finance, and ops.

Volatile market conditions…

Demand agility in deal strategy—without defaulting to costly concessions.

Cross-functional selling…

Increases the complexity of every conversation, and the need for team alignment.

Procurement:

Fragmented supplier bases…

Make it harder to standardize terms and protect against contract creep

Procurement under pressure…

Must deliver cost savings without compromising on safety, compliance, or supply continuity.

Scaling cross-functional deals

Whether it’s aligning finance, engineering, or product, you need a consistent process to streamline communication and secure buy-in.

We give your teams the playbook to handle all of it—with clarity, control, and confidence.

What We Deliver to Energy Teams

 
RED BEAR’s negotiation training fuses behavioral science, proven models, and real-world application—so your people negotiate better deals, faster.

We train both sales and procurement teams. Here’s what they walk away with:

 
 

For Energy Sales Teams


After a sales negotiation training, your sales team will be able to:

  • Preserve margin without over-discounting
  • Navigate complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles
  • Stay aligned with commercial strategy
  • Build value-based relationships, not just price-based deals
  • Push back against procurement pressure
  • Improve renewal and upsell outcomes
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For Energy Procurement Teams


Get your procurement team speaking the same negotiation language because when you do, your team can:

  • Deliver on cost-savings goals without increasing risk
  • Strengthen supplier accountability and contract terms
  • Negotiate through uncertainty and supply chain volatility
  • Build repeatable negotiation practices across categories
  • Gain influence internally and externally
  • Plan smarter for complex global negotiations

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Case Study

Energy & Chemicals Company Achieves $20.6M Profit Increase and Doubles Sales Volume

AA Fortune 1000 energy and chemicals company faced challenges including volatile raw material costs, intense competition, product commoditization, and flat demand across North America, Europe, and Asia. 

To address these issues, they partnered with RED BEAR to instill a disciplined sales execution strategy aimed at capturing new opportunities and enhancing performance against competitors.

The results:

An incremental profitability increase of $20.6 million

More than double the sales volume

“If we’re going to execute successfully, these skills need to be emphasized more and more. There’s too much at stake for our company. With margins as tight as they have been, that one- to two-cent premium, which oftentimes makes the difference between making and losing money, can only be achieved through skillful leveraging of our value proposition.”
 — Senior Sales Executive

Why Energy Companies Stick With RED BEAR

 Because the way you negotiate drives the way your business performs.


Customized training aligned to your market, category, and commercial strategy
Delivered globally in-person or virtually across 15+ languages
Built on research-backed negotiation methodology
Measured by business impact—period
Reinforced through coaching, planning tools, and leadership enablement

Don’t Let a High-Stakes Deal Go Sideways

Whether you’re selling complex systems or sourcing critical materials, RED BEAR gives your team the negotiation skills to lead with impact.

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