Tender & Proposal Engineer - Transformer Service

Job Description Hitachi Energy is a global leader in transformers, offering liquid-filled and dry-type transformers, and support transformer business with the broadest portfolio of insulation, bushings, tap-changers, measurement and safety devices and solutions for continuous online asset monitoring and services throughout the complete transformer life cycle. Hitachi Energy provides services throughout the complete transformer life cycle, from commissioning to recycling, for all brands and kinds of transformers. Our service portfolio allows utilities and industrials to maximize the return on transformer assets by ensuring high reliability, reducing life cycle costs, and ensuring optimized performance while lowering environmental impact. You will contribute to the execution of the Service strategy and its growth by focusing on delivering timely, high-quality, cost-effective proposals on our service offerings, solutions, and engineering projects for customers. Responsibilities - Recording and maintain enquiry register on regular basis. - Review customer's bid documents, technical specification and requirements, identifies the scope of supply/ service, prepares list of technical deviations and clarifications. - Prepare Timely and comprehensive pre-bid documentation - Determine most technically appropriate and cost-effective solutions. - Getting backup data, quotations from internal stakeholders, vendors, contractors, etc. - Close co-ordination and conduct necessary meetings with internal stakeholders (engineering, legal, operations, etc.) as well other business units. - Identifies potential risks in the bids/ estimates/ quotations/ solutions proposed. - Ensure all pre-tender processes and proposals follow relevant Hitachi Energy Procedures and guidelines, rationalize terms and conditions - Prepare techno-commercial proposals for local market considering all economical and technical project aspects as well as customer's bidding process. - Follow customer tender portals and processes for bidding in tenders as applicable. - Support Sales team in the negotiation/ clarification during bidding process. - Close collaboration with the Sales team (TRES) and Common service FES responsible. - Track proposal status and follow-up with Sales/CS FES team and customers. - Planning the daily offer volume with the sales team to ensure delivery dates and adhere to timelines. - Get acquainted with tools and processes, guidelines to be followed - Bid & proposal standardization & competence development - Creation of Sale order in SAP with associated activities, on receipt of order from Customer. - Preparing post order documentation and following applicable commercial processes prior to handover. - Maintaining all documentation in hard and soft formats appropriately. - Lost proposal analysis to obtain better future bidding - Know-how sharing & cross-function collaboration. - Accountable for technical expertise and quality & accuracy of the deliverables - Living Hitachi Energy's core values of safety, integrity and quality, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business - Preferred knowledge in Product Services, preferably in Electrical equipment like Transformers Background - A bachelor's degree or Diploma in electrical/ mechanical engineering or related discipline. - Candidate should have 6 to years of professional work experience in power product & service tendering/ proposal preparation (technical & commercial). - Knowledge in transformers operation and maintenance and digital products is preferred - Must have experience and skill to prepare and support Bid Process. - Individual contributor using in-depth knowledge and putting extra efforts in specific area to execute complex or specialized tenders/ challenges - Customer and market oriented - Being technical, analytical, proactive & innovative, solution & target oriented. - Able to operate under pressure to tight deadlines with a flexible attitude to work. - Having good planning and organization skills. - Strong verbal and written communication skills. - Fluent in English language both spoken and written. - A team player, sincere, committed, honest and positive attitude. - Proficiency in technical tools such as MS-Office and Salesforce - Knowledge and experience in SAP. - Location Vadodara, Gujarat Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives. With over a century in pioneering mission-critical technologies like high-voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.