Technical Proposals Manager
Schenectady, NY - USA
Job Summary
- Wind turbine technical bid development and negotiation. Owns the technical analysis of customer inquiries RFQs or tenders to determine proposal requirements scope of supply and winning wind turbine configurations. Matrix leadership of technical team including application engineering EHS product engineering product line and all other technical disciplines for proposal development.
- Accountable for ensuring high quality well defined technical proposals that include applicable scope of supply options to position GE to win profitable orders.
- Has in-depth knowledge of technical and commercial best practices and how that work product integrates with other teams; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
- Support sales team in closing orders by providing technical expertise negotiation support and timely responses to customer needs.
- Responsible to participate in cycle time reduction proposal quality improvement and technical risk analysis and optimization activities.
- Participation in weekly proposal risk reviews owning the technical risk review on each transaction.
- Participation in order release from sales to project implementation and associated critical process steps.
- Support functional reviews for forecasting technical strategy development technical risk management technical issues resolutions Technical Leader tools development & deployment simplification growth and lean initiatives.
- Mentor team members with less experience.
- Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus. Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.
- Main point of contact for technical issues within the commercial operations team.
- Develop deep relationships with customers technical team to enable collaborative development of their project pipelines.
- Facilitate periodic touch points with customers to enable bi-directional communication/feedback on technical and project-specific issues
Required Qualifications:
Bachelors degree in Mechanical Electrical or other engineering discipline economist & Minimum of 5 years experience in power or wind projects (tender preparation / project implementation)
GE Vernova offers a great work environment professional development challenging careers and competitive compensation. GE Vernova is anEqual Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race color religion national or ethnic origin sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression age disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
GE Vernova will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen (as applicable).
Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes
Required Experience:
Manager
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