Tender Specialist

BYD EUROPE; Schiedam; Presencial; EUR 55 000 - 75 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Pension plan

Commuting allowance

5 holidays option to purchase

Team-building events

Resumo da oferta

BYD EUROPE is seeking a Tender Specialist to analyze and coordinate tender documentation across departments to produce compelling offers for government bodies and bus operators in Europe.

You will work within the Tender Team, coordinating with Sales, R&D, Legal, Finance, and After-Sales, while reporting to the Regional Sales Manager. The role requires strong communication, multitasking, and a proactive, resilient mindset.

Qualificações

• Proven experience in tendering, compliance, or related roles.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to prioritize and work independently.
• Willing to travel occasionally within Europe.

Responsabilidades

• Translate, analyze, and summarize initial government or bus operator tender inquiries.
• Lead, monitor, and facilitate communication between sales managers, R&D engineers, after-sales engineers, and legal and finance team colleagues during the tender evaluation phase.
• Collect and analyze evaluation forms.
• Share expertise and constructive feedback during the tender SWOT evaluation process.
• Handle multiple tasks with deadlines in several tenders by coordinating documentation between all parties.
• Propose and promote innovative solutions to balance client requests with BYD's offer.
• Translate technical information into readable offers with the R&D team; formulate quotation strategy with the sales team.
• Submit tender documentation to clients; communicate with clients on questions or price negotiations.
• Prepare monthly reports; follow processes and safety/environmental instructions.

Conhecimentos

Tendering experience

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About the team: The Tender Team wins bus orders for the company!

About the team: The Tender Team wins bus orders for the company! The Tender Team cooperates with all company departments, including the Managing Director, Sales Director, Country Sales, R&D, After-Sales, Legal, Finance, Project Management, and Sourcing Teams, to achieve our common goals. In addition, coordination and communication extend beyond the company to clients and various suppliers.

Do you want to be a fast learner in the bus industry, a skilled project manager, and a team player? Join us!

About the role

The Tender Specialist analyzes and coordinates tender documentation between departments to create the best possible offer. This role requires the ability to switch focus quickly, balance several tasks with tight deadlines, and communicate in a diplomatic and energetic manner.

The Tender Specialist is part of the tender team and the larger sales team and reports to the Regional sales Manager.

Main tasks and responsibilities

Tender evaluation phase

• Translate, analyze, and summarize initial government or bus operator tender inquiries.
• Lead, monitor, and facilitate communication between sales managers, R&D engineers, after-sales engineers, and legal and finance team colleagues during the tender evaluation phase.
• Collect and analyze evaluation forms.
• Share expertise and constructive feedback during the tender SWOT evaluation process.

Tender preparation phase

• Handle multiple tasks with various deadlines in several tenders simultaneously by coordinating tender documentation between all parties.
• Propose and promote innovative solutions to strike a balance between the client's request and BYD's offer.
• Together with the R&D team, translate technical information into concrete, readable offers for clients.
• Together with the sales team, formulate the quotation strategy.
• Collect, analyze, and summarize tender documentation from all parties involved and submit it to the client.
• Communicate with the client regarding any questions or further price negotiations.
• Prepare monthly reports.

General

• Follow the determined processes, safety and environmental instructions
• Report improvement opportunities in the organization, processes and incidents via an improvement note.

Profile

• Proven experience in tendering, compliance, or related roles.
• High sense of responsibility;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to prioritize and work independently;
• Value added if you have a technical background, but it is not a must.
• Confident, professional, and flexible.
• Team player.
• Energetic and resilient under stress.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Willing to travel occasionally within Europe.

We offer

• Performance and experience-based competitive remuneration, KPI variable salary, pension plan;
• 25 holidays + option to purchase 5 extra holidays;
• Commuting allowance;
• Department & company wide teambuilding events;
• An exciting opportunity to be part of European transition to Zero Emissions transportation and de-carbonization of the economy.

Our Purpose is to build a zero-emission future that reconnects humanity with nature and a World of clean air. We are looking for talent that connects with this mission and want to create positive impact by joining a diverse and dynamic team