RAC MEA Senior Tender Manager

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Mission/About the role:

As leader of an International Tender:

• Lead CatA/B type of tenders and propose best Tendering Setup with the Opp Leader to win the project.

• Define the winning Tender strategy with the opportunity capture team.

• Lead tendering team, with some regional functions, & guide them to make sure the tendering strategy is applied and target price is achieved.

• Lead the project cost optimization strategy if needed in order to reach the target price.

• Lead the tender preparation (Technical, Contract, Purchasing, Finance, HSE, Cybersecurity, Quality, Logistiscs, Workshop & Site Works, etc).

• Make sure the CAPEX scope quoted is "Services Ready". Prepares or works with the services department to attach services offer with CAPEX offer.

• Manage tender risk analysis with SRM and SMEs.

• Present the offer to SE mgmt for approval/validation.

• Participate actively in customer negotiations and closing of the deal.

• Transfer project to execution team

Duties and Responsibilities:

Commercial aspects:

• Profile needs to be very business oriented. The only reason why we bid is to win!

• Understands Customer needs and translate them with the Opportunity Leader into a winning Tender Strategy.

• Understands how to sell added value with an EP&P project approach.

• Prepares commercial offer and executive summary showing SE value proposal.

• Participates actively in customer negotiations.

Tender preparation:

• Communicates Tender Strategy to all team participants (local/reginal/global) during Tender Kick-Off.

• Communicates Bid schedule to his team and makes sure it's respected.

• Animates his tender team in regular follow-up meeting to anticipate problems / elaborates alternative plans if needed.

• Translates Target Prices to Target Costs with the Opportunity Leader. Works with, and challenges, his/her tender team not to exceed this amount building different scenario to reach it.

• Leads Risk & Opportunity sessions with SMEs.

• Leads cash curve scenario with finance for the offer submission and anticipating negotiations.

• Prepares Tender Review presentation with his/her team, captures comments from mgmt./SMEs and modifies the offer accordingly.

• Submits tender approval as per official internal processes.

• Is responsible of submitting the complete offer in due time to customer.

• Masters main aspects of the offer: Technical Proposal, Purchasing topics, contractual aspects, schedule, risks, commercial environment, cashflow, etc. Is capable of quickly seeing the impact on these different aspects while negotiating.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree of Electrical engineering.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in tendering/bid/proposal positions.
• Excellent commend of English.
• Professional user of Microsoft Office.
• People oriented with great communication skills.
• Has a strong commercial mindset. Customer oriented.
• Aptitude to stand time pressure and stress while keeping high performance level
• Adhering to the principals & values.
• Learning & researching.
• Adapting and responding to change.

Schedule: Full-time
Req: 008ZMY