Tender/Quotation Specialist -Dry Transformer | Chennai, India

Hitachi Energy; Chennai; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Hitachi Energy Ltd. is seeking a Tender/Quotation Specialist for Dry Transformer projects. You will craft technically appropriate, cost-effective bids and manage total price sheets, cash flow analyses, and project hours for engineering/commissioning where needed.

You will also handle order bookings, ERP/SFDC data input, and risk reviews while analyzing market intelligence to improve bid outcomes. The role emphasizes documentation discipline and administrative rigor across sales processes.

Qualifications

• Experience creating technical and financial bids/quotations.
• Ability to analyze costs, prices, and trading conditions.
• Familiarity with sales processes and documentation standards.

Responsibilities

• Prepare technical and financial bids, quotations, and estimates.
• Define suitable technology/product types and total price sheet.
• Coordinate order booking and ERP/SFDC data input.
• Identify risks in bids and participate in risk reviews.
• Analyze sales data and market intelligence to inform bids.
• Collect and archive documentation for offers and orders.
• Manage administrative procedures in sales processes and events.

Skills

Bid management

Pricing strategy

Financial analysis

Market intelligence

Documentation

Risk assessment

Tools

SFDC

ERP systems

Job description

Tender/Quotation Specialist -Dry Transformer

Product Marketing Support: Supports the product marketing organization/customer in determining the most technically appropriate and cost-effective solutions. Formulates competitive bids/estimates/quotations, taking into account best available dry type transformer product mix and appropriate technical and commercial considerations for each individual situation. Ensures tenders are well documented in a timely manner and with appropriate level of detail, including full and accurate costs.

2. Offer Preparation - Manages the preparation of all technical (e.g. defining the most suitable technology and product type(s)), financial (e.g. total price sheet, cash flow analysis) and if necessary project management (e.g. quantifies hours of engineering and commissioning) aspects of the bid/estimate/quotation, indicating prices and trading conditions.

3. Order booking and SFDC Support: Customer creation/Change, Customer credit request, Order booking basing on ERP work as well as SFDC data input/configuration

4. Risk - Identifies potential risks in the bids, quotations and estimates, and in any related contract agreements across customers/channels. Provides information and/or participates in the Risk Review process in accordance with policy.

5. Market intelligence: Responsible for the analysis of sales report and market intelligence essential with gathering marketing data

6. Documentation - Collects and archives documentation regarding the offer/order and records assumptions and decisions taken during the development process. Regularly reports the status of the bids/estimates/quotations using defined tools and collects and analyses the reasons for tenders being lost and won.

7. Administration: Manages and administrative procedures in sales processes and any business-related events

Health, safety and environment (HSE) - Ensures the project follows and complies with company health, safety, and environmental policies

We are a global leader in electrification, powering the electricity era to meet the energy demands of today, and the next 25 years. As the energy arm of Hitachi Group, over three billion people depend on our pioneering, mission-critical technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century of innovation, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time: driving the evolution of the world’s energy system to ensure abundant, secure, affordable, and sustainable power for today’s generation and the next.

With an unparalleled installed base in over 140 countries, we are the grid ecosystem partner across the utility, industry, data center, and transportation sectors. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 56,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $20 billion USD.