Senior Bidding Engineer at Giza Systems

Job Description

• Manage bid operations and ensure complete proposal preparation; timely submission with total compliance to the company processes.
• Lead the bidding process as assigned by his/her manager.
• Lead the review of the bid pipeline with sales teams.
• Identifying opportunities for bid submission.
• Coordinate major projects during the bid process until handover for implementation.
• Review of tender documents on receipt to ensure its completeness.
• Organize and take part in bid initiation, review meeting, managing pre-tender procedures.
• Ensure that clarifications are raised well in time to get better clarity on bid submission.
• Co-ordinate & follow-up to ensuring post bid clarifications are addressed.
• Assist the sales team to prepare an Opportunity Review for bid / no bid decision.
• Compile and analyze bid data.
• Prepare budgets and securing the necessary funding to meet bid management needs.
• Report on bid management plans and giving monthly status reports to senior management.
• Ensure that commercial submissions to tenders are fully complied with all necessary details.
• Proactively work with the Procurement Group to ensure Vendors RFQ Technical and Commercial Bid Evaluations are completed in a timely manner.
• Prepare / Review the preparation of the construction schedule, providing man hours and equipment requirement for each activity and also ensure correctness to capture anticipated duration and manning.
• Develop and streamline processes to improve the bid function and interfaces with the rest of the Company.
• Propose modification to the proposal process, where appropriate, to meet customers specific needs.
• Assist in training bid management team and sales staff where necessary on an ongoing basis.
• Develop and implement a bid library.
• Prepare cost sheets and budgets of projects at the bidding phase.
• Review and act upon the client’s enquiries, commercial terms and conditions to avail all requirements.
• Cooperate with different technical and business teams to build the techno-commercial proposals.

Personal Skills

• Good communication & negotiation skills.
• Good Leadership skills.
• Excellent technical report writing skills.
• Very good command of English.
• Very good computer skills, i.e.; primavera and/or Microsoft project/Excel/PowerPoint/Word.
• Great presentation skills.

Technical Skills

• Minimum 5 years experience in a senior bidding role.
• EPRA Class A/B.
• Engineer registration with ERP.
• NCA certified.

Education

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering