Bid Manager
All About You:
We are looking for an experienced and highly organized bid manager to join our team. As a Bid Manager, you will play a crucial role in the development and submission of winning bids for our company. You will be responsible for managing bids from initiation to submission, ensuring that all required elements are included and timelines are met.
As a bid manager, you will collaborate with various teams across the organization, including sales, marketing, and operations. You will review bid opportunities, identify potential risks, and develop winning strategies. You will also be responsible for coordinating the bid response process, including preparing proposal documents, managing the bid library, and ensuring compliance with all submission requirements.
The ideal candidate for this role has a strong understanding of bid management best practices and has a proven track record of successfully winning bids. You should be detail-oriented, with excellent organizational and time management skills.Strong communication skills are also essential, as you will be working closely with internal teams and external stakeholders.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering or equivalent work experience
- Proven experience in bid and project management
- 5-8 years of technical sales experience in the power generation/T&D utilities market, renewable engergy, and battery energy storage systems
- Strong understanding of bid management best practices
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Detail-oriented with strong attention to accuracy
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Responsibilities:
- Manage the end-to-end bid process, including reviewing bid opportunities, developing a bid strategy, manage the bid budget, and coordinating the bid response process
- Collaborate with sales, marketing, and operations teams to gather the necessary information for bids
- Prepare proposal documents, ensuring that all required elements are included and meet submission requirements
- Organize and lead the bid review with the sales team
- Conduct regular reviews of the bid library, updating and enhancing content as necessary
- Coordinate the status of the bids with the engineering group to ensure that resources are reserved and available for the project
- Monitor and track bid timelines, ensuring that all deadlines are met
- Conduct post-bid analysis to identify areas for improvement and develop recommendations for future bid opportunities
What We Offer:
Whether you are just getting started or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package to include generous compensation based on market standards, healthcare, wellness, adoption assistance, discounted stock purchase, career development and recognition programs.Some of our superior benefits include parental (maternal and paternal) leave, 401K retirement contribution match at 7%, educational assistance (tuition reimbursement), Short-term Disability (STD), paid holidays, paid vacation, and paid employee referral award.
We appreciate diverse skills/experience and yours could add immense value to our team. Our customers have varied backgrounds and so do our employees. If you are excited about leaving your footprint on our technical customer-centric solutions while increasing sales, we would love to hear from you.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to providing employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, creed, color, gender, religion, marital status, domestic partner status, age national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, pregnancy, military or veteran status, and genetic information.If you require an accommodation to complete the application or interview process, please contact us by email at reasonableaccommodation@saft.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
About Us:
Saft is a global battery company like no other. Thanks to our historical expertise, combined with our unique industrial approach, we have a leading position in meeting the demands of our customers. Our batteries and battery systems make a difference for all the market sectors they serve.
Established in 19 countries and supported by our 17 production sites, Saft has more than 4,300 employees across the planet and have been manufacturing batteries for more than 100 years. Since 2016, Saft is a wholly owned subsidiary of TotalEnergies, a global integrated energy company that produces and markets energies: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables, and electricity.
Their 100,000 employees are committed to provide as many people as possible with energy that is more reliable, more affordable, and more sustainable. Active in about 120 countries, TotalEnergies places sustainability at the heart of its strategy, its projects and its operation.We are a broad energy company that produces and markets energies on a global scale: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity.
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