Tender Manager

Join Our Team as Tender Manager

As a Tender Manager, you will lead the end-to-end tendering process for complex, high-value projects. This role requires a strategic mindset, strong leadership, and the ability to coordinate across multiple business units to leverage synergies for shared customers. You will play a key role in shaping competitive, compliant, and compelling proposals that align with both customer expectations and company objectives.

We are looking for a highly motivated, proactive individual who thrives in a fast-paced exciting environment and is driven to deliver winning results.

What drives us at Schneider Electric?

For us, impact isn't just a term paraded across posters or social media; it's encoded into our culture. After all, Schneider makes companies, infrastructure, buildings, homes, data centers, and entire industries more efficient and sustainable. With us, you'll contribute to tackling the climate crisis head-on, and accelerating the energy transition the planet urgently needs. There's a reason why we're consistently ranked among the most sustainable companies in the world. Here, you can pursue your dream career while actively making a long-term, positive impact on the planet.

With us, you'll contribute to tackling the climate crisis head-on, and accelerating the energy transition the planet urgently needs. What's more, we help tens of millions of people in underserved communities gain access to energy and education — so you're making the world a fairer place, too. You'll sit among colleagues with vastly different personal and professional backgrounds, all united by a vision of a better world.

What you'll do

• Tender Strategy Development: Define and implement tailored tender strategies that align with business goals and customer needs.
• Bid Leadership: Lead the preparation, coordination, and submission of high-quality bids, ensuring compliance with all requirements and deadlines.
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Collaborate with sales, engineering, legal, finance, and procurement teams to gather inputs and validate offer components.
• Business Unit Synergy: Act as a connector between business units to align tendering efforts for shared customers, ensuring a unified and strategic approach.
• Risk Management: Identify and assess commercial, contractual, and technical risks, and develop mitigation strategies.
• Customer Engagement: Maintain strong relationships with clients throughout the tendering process, including clarifying requirements and negotiating terms.
• Process Improvement: Capture lessons learned and contribute to the development of best practices, tools, and templates to enhance future tendering efficiency.

Key Qualities and Skills

• Leadership: Proven ability to lead cross-functional and remote teams, influence without authority, and drive alignment across departments.
• Ownership: Energetic and committed to achieving results. You take initiative, overcome obstacles, and pursue opportunities with determination.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to see the broader business context and align tender strategies with long-term objectives.
• Tender Management: Strong organizational skills to manage multiple tenders simultaneously under tight deadlines.
• Collaboration: Skilled at building relationships and fostering cooperation across business units and functions.
• Commercial Acumen: Deep understanding of pricing models, contract terms, and financial implications of bids.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both internal coordination and external client interaction.
• Analytical Thinking: Ability to assess risks, evaluate scenarios, and make data-driven decisions.
• Resilience: Comfortable working under pressure and adapting to changing priorities.

Essential for the role

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field.
• Several years of experience in tendering, bid management, or commercial project roles.
• Experience working in matrix organizations and coordinating across business units.
• Familiarity with public and private sector procurement processes.
• Proficiency in relevant software tools (e.g., MS Office, CRM systems, tendering platforms).
• Fluent in English; Nordic language is an asset.

Why Schneider Electric?

At Schneider Electric, we are committed to fostering a vibrant and inclusive work culture where every employee is empowered to thrive. As part of our team, you can expect:

• Professional Growth: Access to continuous learning opportunities, mentorship programs, and career development resources to nurture your potential and drive your career forward.
• Innovative Environment: Be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking organization that encourages creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit as we lead the way in digital transformation and sustainability.
• Work-Life Balance: We value your well-being and offer flexible work arrangements, comprehensive wellness programs, and support to help you maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Global Impact: Contribute to meaningful projects that address global energy challenges and sustainability, making a positive impact on the world while advancing your career.
• Inclusive Community: Join a diverse and inclusive community where your unique perspectives are celebrated, and your voice is heard, fostering an environment of collaboration and belonging.

So, what's next?

Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can't wait to hear from you. Apply through the link on the page.

Where can I find out more?

About Schneider Electric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbldHPFltQQ

We are proudly #1 in the World's Most Sustainable Corporation 2025

Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?

When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.

IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.

We are looking for IMPACT Makers; exceptional people who turn sustainability ambitions into actions at the intersection of automation, electrification, and digitization. We celebrate IMPACT Makers and believe everyone has the potential to be one.

Become an IMPACT Maker with Schneider Electric – apply today!