Join us as a Tendering Leader where you'll lead a team through complex, high-value opportunities. This role combines strategic thinking, commercial expertise, and leadership to deliver winning solutions that drive business growth. Locations
- Nashville, Dallas, Houston What you will do:
- Lead, develop, and enable a team of Tender Managers while building a high-performing tendering organization.
- Provide coaching, mentorship, and ongoing development to continuously enhance team capability and performance.
- Own tendering governance within the assigned business perimeter and ensure compliance with Schneider Electric processes, policies, and corporate governance requirements.
- Drive business performance and accountability for tendering outcomes, deliverables, and results.
- Manage medium-complexity Power Systems and Digital Power tendering activities, supporting contractor, distributor, and customer-facing opportunities.
- Lead organizational and process transformation initiatives that improve tendering effectiveness and support evolving business needs.
- Partner closely with commercial, technical, legal, compliance, contracts, and business stakeholders throughout the bid and tendering process.
- Effectively manage stakeholder relationships and executive leadership expectations.
- Support strategic decision-making and assume accountability for business and operational outcomes.
- Remain actively engaged in tendering activities and provide hands-on support during high-priority or resource-constrained situations.
- Foster collaboration, teamwork, and operational excellence across the tendering organization.
- Help scale and develop a growing team as the organization expands. What are the key skills we are looking for?
- Collaboration
- advanced level; orchestrating cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive tender responses
- Cost Management
- advanced level; building accurate estimates that balance competitiveness with margin protection
- Pricing Strategy
- advanced level; developing commercial approaches that win business while maximizing profitability
- Tendering
- advanced level; leading complex bid processes from RFQ analysis through final submission
- Communication
- intermediate level; translating technical solutions into compelling commercial narratives
- Contract Management
- intermediate level; ensuring compliance with legal and company policy requirements
- Strategic Thinking
- intermediate level; defining differentiated approaches that position us to win
- Risk Management
- intermediate level; identifying and mitigating commercial exposure in tender scenarios What qualifications will make you successful?
- Approximately 8+ years of combined tendering, bid management, proposal management, and/or leadership experience.
- Experience in one or more of the following industries: + Electrical Distribution +.
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