Global Telecom Bid Manager - Lead High-Impact Proposals

Rakuten Symphony; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakuten Symphony seeks an experienced Bid Manager to lead end-to-end bids, manage virtual teams, and craft compelling customer offers in response to RFx documents. You will interact with regional leadership and ensure compliant, high-impact proposals across RAN, cloud, OSS, and private networks.

The role requires strong writing, negotiation, and program-management skills, with APMP accreditation preferred. Collaboration with sales, legal, and risk is essential for success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, telecommunications, or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading multi-million-dollar bids with multiple stakeholders, preferably in telecom/ICT.
• Strong writing, editing, and stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of telecom products and architectures (fixed, mobile, MPLS/SD-WAN, fibre, cloud connectivity).
• Proven ability to manage bid plans, timelines, and governance across global teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead bid qualification and go/no-go reviews, assessing value, fit, risk and win probability.
• Build and run bid plan, timeline and governance across kickoff to BAFO rounds.
• Coordinate solution design across RAN, services, cloud, OSS and private networks.
• Work with Pricing/Finance on cost models, margins, and contracts terms.
• Develop win themes, value propositions, and executive summaries; manage clarifications and bid defenses.

Skills

Bid management

Executive writing

Stakeholder management

Project governance

Presentation skills

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business/engineering/telecommunications

Tools

Microsoft 365

Loopio

RFPIO/Responsive

Salesforce

Job description

Rakuten Symphony seeks an experienced Bid Manager to lead end-to-end bids, manage virtual teams, and craft compelling customer offers in response to RFx documents. You will interact with regional leadership and ensure compliant, high-impact proposals across RAN, cloud, OSS, and private networks.

The role requires strong writing, negotiation, and program-management skills, with APMP accreditation preferred. Collaboration with sales, legal, and risk is essential for success.