Bid & Commercial Manager
Department: Finance – International Sales Deals Desk – Frankfurt Data Center based (Kelsterbach)
Position Overview
The Bid & Commercial Manager is responsible for managing complex bids and commercial proposals from opportunity qualification through contract signature. The role combines bid orchestration & pricing shaping while ensuring that offers are competitive, compliant, commercially sound, and aligned with company strategy & corporate policies. This involves close collaboration and interactions with Sales, Technical teams, Support & Services teams, InfoSec, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain, Product, and any other required stakeholders.
Core Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end bid process for Enterprise and public tenders
- Analyze RFPs, RFQs, and contract requirements (commercial, financial, and legal)
- Support bid/no-bid decisions through risk and opportunity assessment
- Contribute to the commercial strategy and win themes in collaboration with sales
- Coordinate inputs from internal/external stakeholders to deliver high-quality proposals
- Ensure bids are submitted on time and fully compliant with customer requirements
- Prepare and lead internal bid review meetings
- Build business cases ensuring financially compelling offer while protecting company margin
- Develop pricing models, cost structures, and margin analyses
- Build and validate commercial assumptions and financial scenarios
- Ensure compliance with internal commercial governance and approval processes
- Identify contractual, financial, and operational risks and propose mitigation actions
- Support commercial and contractual negotiations with customers along with sales
- Contribute to contract finalization and handover to relevant post-sales teams
- Maintain bid documentation, templates, and commercial standards
- Capture lessons learned from won and lost bids to improve future performance
- Track and report bid KPIs (win rate, margins, compliance, deadlines)
Profile Requirements
- Master’s degree (Business, Engineering, Finance, or equivalent)
- Proven experience (typically 8+ years) in bid management, commercial/contract management
- German speaker mandatory, any other foreign language is a plus
- Experience in project-based or contract-driven industries is an advantage
- Strong understanding of bid and tender processes
- Solid financial and commercial acumen (pricing, margins, cost modelling)
- Good knowledge of contract terms and commercial risk management
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence without authority
- Results‑driven mindset with strong commercial awareness