Bid Specialist - South Africa at Vestas

Bid Management is, within Construction Department, responsible to ensure effective construction bids in alignment with customers' expectations/tenders specifications.

Reporting to the Regional Bid Manager, the Bid Specialist is an integral part of the Bid Management team that will work in collaboration with Construction team and Vestas functions to ensure alignment between the bids/tenders, the clients' expectations and Vestas targets for all projects/contracts performed in South Africa and in the overall region.

Responsibilities

• Carry out Construction bid response and take lead on construction scope in contract negotiation;
• Assess construction scope and prepare tactical plan through internal project management in Operations with relevant functional areas for proposal engage with customers to optimize construction proposal and provide clarification;
• Budgeting and planning projects in collaboration with Construction sub departments (Project Management, Planning, Installation, BOP) and with other Vestas functions (Sales, Procurement, Transport, Technology...) ensuring industry standard cost alignment within the project strategy and business constraints;
• Ensure approved construction budget (OPEC) and project programme to be included with proposal;
• Maintain overview of major construction risks during sales phase. Implement lessons learned from previous projects;
• Reporting, analysis and evaluation of post & precalc results to optimize cost and profitability of Vestas projects; 
• Contract Execution Package (CEP) approval in collaboration with Sales Management and supporting the Regional Head of Construction within the CEP approval process; 
• Support business improvement initiatives to ensure high quality & value added solutions
• Development, participation in the development of new construction processes: boosting plans, platform creation etc...in order to find adequate opportunities for Vestas and Vestas' customers.

Qualifications

• Technical degree in Engineering, construction, logistics or similar
• Relevant Project Management related certification (PMP or other similar).
• Minimum 3 to 5 year experience in Project Management in the energy sector, renewables preferred.
• Commercial understanding and experience in working with bids and negotiations 
• Fluent in English and second European language will be ranked (French, Portuguese, Spanish).
• MS Excel, DDBB, Power BI computer skills

Competencies

• Skills in business understanding and information/data analysis, as well as good negotiation skills
• Good organization and interpersonal skills as well as solid communication and negotiation capabilities 
• Outgoing and innovative
• Ability to adapt to an ever-growing environment. 
• Capacity to prioritize multiple projects and adjust workload accordingly. 
• Risk management, problem solving and judgment capabilities.