The European C&SP Solution center is a centralised organisation dedicated to Data Centre business across all countries/zones across Europe.

Our team has extensive experience in executing Data Centre projects through innovative ways to deliver gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability, all in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Our passionate members offer forward-thinking technical and commercial solutions that can provide advantages for our customers. For instance, we help them defining and selecting suitable technologies and equipment, to optimise the balance between initial capital expenditure and overall life cycle costs of electrical and automation systems.

Our team is involved in all phases of the customer project life cycle:

• Specifications review
• Design optimization
• Qualification test definition and management
• Manufacturing follow-up, testing and commissioning
• Project Execution
• Transfer of the next phases to Zones Solution centers.

Your role :

Reporting to the C&SP Tendering Team Manager (Julien Chappellaz), surrounded by 12 other teammates, you will lead the overall tender activity for key Global accounts like Microsoft, Amazon, Google …

Your missions :

Activities on offers :

• Monitor and put under control the direction, timeline, and status of the overall opportunity. Be the accountable owner whatever in full lead or in support mode, and the main contact point of SAE.
• Ensure consistency and interfaces from one package or project to another, with account’s habits (risks, T&Cs, set-up and hours, taxes, lessons learnt, ...)
• At prescription, contribute to Schneider qualification, spec-in, RFQ drafting or analysis to maximise our chances and added-value.
• At bid, contribute to tender strategy definition, adequate tendering set-up (local/regional) and validate it in SOC.  Lead and animate the extended Tender team.
• Ensure preparation on time of consolidated commercial offer, optimizing costs, minimizing risks, meeting customer expectation to overtake competition.
• Build a synthesis of overall risks and mitigation plans. Ensure mastering all aspects of the offer : technical proposal, purchasing, contractual, commercial environment, cash flow, ...
• Reconstitute a target price and simulate alternate scenarii to reach it.  Challenge contributions and deliverables of team and suppliers. Foster team convergence to reach an optimize offer.
• Secure the stages of CPP process and its timeline versus customer deadline. Ensure consolidated Tender Review (S2) and facilitate a documented approval decision.
• Follow-up contract negociation very closely with customer and SAE, and ensure best team reactivity in this critical step. Assess anytime compliance to mandate and correct if needed.
• Lead Review before Sign (P0), giving final summary of the gaps / highlights versus the mandate, and final documented commitment on costs and margin. Prepare and lead Transfer to execution.
• Ensure Lessons Learnt are formalized from Tender stage (lead) and Execution stage (participate), and reverted pro-actively in every new tender, with a very quick feedback loop.

Activities on account :

• Animate the account community (SAE, KAM, country, local TMs, …) around the tendering portfolio and actions, with regular meetings and reports. Anticipate the resources needs (local/regional).
• Improve customer satisfaction through our globalized approach (external customers, and internal customers SAE and KAM)
• Bring consistency on designs, prices, conditions, over the different countries and opportunities, by taking a lead with SMEs (architects, contract, BU, …)
• Consolidate tendering tools, templates, methods, that bring added-value for this account and ensure a relevant use at local/regional.
• Ensure Lessons Learnt are formalized from Tender stage (lead) and Execution stage (participate), and reverted in every new tender, with a very quick feedback loop
• Push relevantly a maximum scope on digitization, in line with the group strategy.

The role is based in Grenoble (Technopole), other locations in Spain or UK can be considered. You may be required to travel 10% of the time.

Your profile :

• Minimum 5 years in Solution Tendering &/or Customer project environment, with experience in complex tender / projects.
• 5 years successful experience in project team management (functional management), remote project team management is a plus
• Experience in Datacenter environment is a strong plus

Your skills :

• Proven ability to lead functional and remote team including various profiles (Local TM, Contract, Technical, SMEs...)
• Ability to understand, influence & convince in a complex matricial environment
• Aptitude to withstand time pressure and stress while keeping high performance level
• Ability to learn from others, share her/his knowledge, coach others and collaborate efficiently.
• Fluent in English
• Knowledge of CPP Process, and Secure Power, Power Systems, and Power Product equipments are a real plus.

We know skills and competencies show up in many ways and can be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed, we still encourage you to apply.

This role offers you :    

Taking this role, you could expand your knowledge and network while discovering the complex Cloud and Service Provider business environment. You will evolve across several business units when leading the quotation of a large range of Schneider equipment.

Life is on : join us and make an impact !

Let us learn about you! Apply today.

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