Automation Projects and Bids Manager – Lahore or Karachi, Pakistan

Siemens; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 2,600,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mobile working 2-3 days/week

Diverse and inclusive culture

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Siemens Digital Industries in Karachi seeks an experienced Automation Projects Bid Manager to lead techno-commercial bids for LV Drives, DCS, SCADA and PLC tenders. You will coordinate with sales, engineering, and suppliers to deliver cost-optimized solutions end-to-end.

The role includes ownership of project P&L, budgeting, forecasting, and risk management, ensuring Siemens standards and a strong customer focus. Excellent communication and teamwork are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechatronics.
• 5+ years’ experience in techno-commercial bid preparation for industrial automation projects.
• 3+ years’ experience in Project Management for complex industrial automation projects.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Project and Primavera.

Responsibilities

• Act as bid manager by preparing winning techno-commercial offers for complex LV Drives, DCS, SCADA and PLC tenders for Industrial Projects.
• Create competitive offers for automation and drives projects and services, including cost calculation and coordination with front-end sales, factory sales, and support functions.
• Define sales price based on market price and cost calculation.
• Deliver industrial Automation & Drives projects from project kick-off through handover and closure including warranty.
• Own project P&L, including budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and cash flow support.
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk, ensuring compliance with contractual and Siemens requirements.
• Coordinate and negotiate with suppliers, managing procurement activities in line with project needs.
• Prepare and submit project progress documentation, track claims and variations, and ensure effective project control.
• Represents Siemens’ contractual and commercial interests vs customer and communicates with customer.

Skills

Bid management

Client facing

Project management

MS Project

Primavera

PMP

PM@Siemens

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechatronics

Tools

SIMATIC S7-400

S7-300

S7-1200

WinCC

SINAMICS

SCOUT

Job description

We empower our people to stay resilient and relevant in a constantly evolving world. We’re looking for people who are always searching for creative ways to grow and learn. People who want to make a real impact, now and in the future. Does that sound like you? Then it seems like you’d make an outstanding addition to our vibrant international team.

Siemens Digital Industries is a leading innovator in automation and digitalization. Our mission is to support customers in maximizing growth, profit opportunities and ecological footprint in the discrete and process industries. Ready to create your own journey?

Join our Digital Industry as the Automation Projects Bid Manager and help us transform the everyday by finding solutions and making the world a more inquisitive place for tomorrow.

Job Responsibilities

• Acting as bid manager by preparing winning techno-commercial offers for complex LV Drives, DCS, SCADA and PLC tenders for Industrial Projects.
• Creating competitive offers for automation and drives projects and services, including cost calculation, Ensuring the coordination with the front-end sales, factory sales as well as all support functions, to develop a cost-optimized solution in accordance with customer requirements
• Defining sales price based on market price and cost calculation.
• Deliver industrial Automation & Drives projects from project kick off through handover and closure including the warranty.
• Own project P&L, including budgeting, forecasting, cost control, margin protection, and cash flow support.
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk, ensuring compliance with contractual and Siemens requirements.
• Coordinate and negotiate with suppliers, managing procurement activities in line with project needs.
• Prepare and submit project progress documentation, track claims and variations, and ensure effective project control.
• Represents Siemens’ contractual and commercial interests vs customer and communicates with customer
• Ensure compliance with Quality, EHS, cybersecurity, and regulatory requirements applicable to utility OT environments..

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Mechatronics.
• Minimum 05 years’ experience in techno-commercial bid preparation for industrial automation projects.
• Minimum 03 years’ experience in Project Management for complex industrial automation projects.
• Good client facing skills, must be able to work as part of combined client/contractor team .
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders (bidding, customer, EPC, internal engineering, and site teams).
• Comprehensive knowledge of project management concepts, practices and procedures, resource and schedule management.
• Proficiency in project management tools such as Microsoft Project and Primavera.
• PMP and/or PM@Siemens project management certification.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills.

Desirable Hands-On Skills

• PCS7 System
• SIMATIC S7-400, S7-300, S7-1200 PLC Systems
• WinCC SCADA System
• Engineering and implementation of Drive Technology applications mainly based on SINAMICS Drive Control Chart (DCC) or Open Architecture (OA / SINAMICS TEC)
• SIMOTION SCOUT, SCOUT standalone and SCOUT TIA

You’ll benefit from

• 2 to 3 days of mobile working per week as a global standard.
• Diverse and inclusive culture.
• An environment where everyone can bring their whole self and feel a sense of belonging.
• the foundation to develop personally and professionally.
• Extraordinary variety of learning & development opportunities

Transform the everyday with us

We value your outstanding identity and perspective and are fully committed to providing equitable opportunities and building a workplace that reflects the diversity of society. Come bring your authentic self and create a better tomorrow with us.

We celebrate the fact that our people are individuals and have different preferences and needs. If we all thought the same, we would never think of anything new! That’s why we recruit extraordinary minds from all walks of life. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and are happy to give the opportunity to discuss flexibility and reasonable adjustment requirements. Many of our teams are working optimally in a remote, virtual adding to our ability to offer more flexibility on how you handle your time.

Please note: Only complete applications can be considered in the selection process.