Tech. Bid Manager (f/m/d) Surge Arrester

Tech. Bid Manager (f/m/d) Surge Arrester

A Snapshot of Your Day

In this role, you support the Siemens Energy Global Sales organization in developing business opportunities for competitive and innovative surge arrester applications. Your focus lies on expanding market presence, identifying new customers, and initiating homologation processes to qualify our products for international markets.

Your responsibilities include promoting our solutions and technical expertise, assessing market capacities and customer requirements, shaping go-to-market strategies, and overseeing order intake activities. You work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure technical and commercial accuracy throughout the bidding, offer, and order execution process.

Furthermore, you lead the bid management process and establish the foundation for the successful execution of future business opportunities. You consult with customers to understand their specific needs and adapt our proposals accordingly, ensuring that our offerings meet market requirements and deliver maximum value.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Development of customer-specific technical solutions based on specifications in close collaboration with engineering and technical departments
• Management of international technical clarifications and customer support activities as the primary point of contact
• Cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Engineering, R&D, Factory Planning, and Quality Management to ensure and continuously improve customer satisfaction
• Customer and market development, including engagement with end users, resellers, and agents, contract negotiations, presentations, training sessions, qualification processes, and FATs
• Business growth and market expansion through new customer acquisition, business development initiatives, market penetration, and implementation of growth strategies
• Management of homologation and innovation activities, including product qualification for target markets, market-entry support, and identification of innovative solutions to enhance competitiveness and effectiveness

What You Bring

• Academic qualification in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline, combined with a strong technical understanding of high-voltage products
• Professional experience in Technical Sales, R&D, or Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) within the energy industry
• Results-oriented teamwork and proactive mindset, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement and business success
• Excellent communication and presentation capabilities, enabling effective interaction across all organizational levels
• Professional language proficiency in English, with German and additional foreign language skills considered an advantage
• Strong analytical and organizational capabilities, including proficiency in MS Office, SAP, and willingness to undertake international business travel

About the Team

Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character - no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme
• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder
• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity
• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose
• In relation to the 'compatibility of family and work', we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical