Bid & proposal m anagement experienced professional

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy provides services throughout the complete transformer life cycle, from commissioning to recycling, including solutions for continuous online asset monitoring and services throughout the complete transformer life cycle.

Our service portfolio allows utilities and industrials to maximize the return on transformer assets by ensuring high reliability, reducing life cycle costs, and ensuring optimized performance while lowering environmental impact.

You will contribute to the execution of the Service strategy and its growth by focusing on delivering timely, high-quality, cost-effective proposals on our service offerings, solutions, and engineering projects for customers. 

How you’ll make an impact

• Recording and maintain enquiry register on regular basis.

• Review customer’s bid documents, technical specification and requirements, identifies the scope of supply/ service, prepares list of technical deviations and clarifications.

• Prepare Timely and comprehensive pre-bid documentation

• Determine most technically appropriate and cost-effective solutions.

• Getting backup data, quotations from internal stakeholders, vendors, contractors, etc.

• Close co-ordination and conduct necessary meetings with internal stakeholders (engineering, operations, legal, etc.) as well other business units.

• Identifies potential risks in the bids/ estimates/ quotations/ solutions proposed.

• Ensure all pre-tender processes and proposals follow relevant Hitachi Energy Procedures and guidelines, rationalize terms and conditions

• Creation of Sale order in SAP with associated activities, on receipt of order from Customer.

• Preparing post order documentation and following applicable commercial processes prior to handover.

• Maintaining all documentation in hard and soft formats appropriately.

• Lost proposal analysis to obtain better future bidding

• Know-how sharing & cross-function collaboration.

• Preferred knowledge in Product Services, preferably in Electrical equipment like Transformers

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

• Responsible to ensure compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.

Your background

• A bachelor’s degree in electrical/ mechanical engineering or related discipline.

• Candidate should have 3 to 5 years of professional work experience in Transformer & Service tendering/ proposal preparation (technical & commercial).

• Knowledge in transformers operation and maintenance and digital products is mandatory.

• Must have experience and skill to prepare and support Bid Process.

• Individual contributor using in-depth knowledge and putting extra efforts in specific area to execute complex or specialized tenders/ challenges

• Fluent in English language both spoken and written.

• A team player, sincere, committed, honest and positive attitude.

• Proficiency in technical tools such as MS-Office and Salesforce

• Knowledge and experience in SAP