Bid Manager - #7500729

Job Description

The team you’ll part of

CNS GBC Commercial Management Central

The CNS Global Business Center (GBC) has a mission to serve as a trusted advisor selling, delivering, and supporting Nokia’s iconic suite of cloud software and network services enabling our customers to thrive and contribute to societal advances.

The Commercial Management Central organization under the same houses the Bid Management (BM) team & the Centre of Excellence (CoE) team supporting the Account Mangers under the CNS Business Group (BG) in the Offer Preparation Lifecycle as part of the Nokia SELL Process, enabling them to have higher Customer Face Time(CFT) towards better relationship management, acting as the voice of the customer internally and creating demand across the other business groups as well.

An exciting opportunity to work in the ever-changing telecommunication industry. As a member of CNS GBC CM BM team, you will be a part of a team whose objectives are to deliver in an environment where openness, trust and autonomy are encouraged.

What You Will Learn And Contribute To

We are looking for a Senior Bid Manager to drive and helm the Bid Management activities for the timely delivery of a high-quality offer to the end Customer. The Bid Manager will work closely with the Account Team and Business Group stakeholders. This will entail project management and coordination activities from offer creation, negotiation phase to handover to delivery phase while ensuring offer readiness on time, at the right quality level and adherence to NDA conditions.

Responsibilities

Contributes in the development and communicates the bid strategy, ensures NDA conditions are followed

Assembles the bid team and defines the work-split, Drives Pre-kick-off and Kick-off meetings, handles customer Q&A process - Ensures availability of Bid Directives

Drives bid preparation and ensures keeping the schedule with regular status meetings

Drives risk analysis, documents review, handles and stores bid documents

Manages procurement to coordinate and evaluate sub-contractors bids

Assembles the bid and assures consistency in overall bid, price and claim strategy, supports in preparing and organizing bid approval process

Supports in coordinating contract negotiation, and in preparing and organizing contract approval process

Leads Bid debriefing session -ensures handover to Project Management

Supports unit level initiatives related to quality, efficiency and works to Optimize Processes to support effective Business outcomes.

Required Skills

You have:

Bachelor’s degree

Project Management, Negotiation skills

Communication and Public Speaking

Account and opportunity planning and Orchestrating capabilities, acumen at Customer requirement management and driving results.

Willingness to contribute with creative, out-of-the-box solutions, to problems arising in a dynamic environment, under high market pressure.

Fluent English and Spanish is required.

It would be nice if you also had:

Portfolio Knowledge

Process and MoO understanding

Pricing experience

About Us

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
  
  

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

About The Team

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.