Tendering Executive

Job ID:42522
Location:LRQA - Mumbai -Solitaire Corpora
Position Category:Administration/Business Support
Position Type:Employee Regular

**Role Purpose**:
Working with the sales community across the APAC region, the **Tendering Executive** is responsible for producing high-quality tenders across a wide range of sales opportunities. Supporting sales representatives on lead generation, particularly via portals, and administrative processing related to customers and sales opportunities.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Support the Sales team of assigned territories and Regional Bid Manager with the initial review of bid requests
- Agree an action plan for tender delivery with Sales community
- Liaise with legal teams for reviews - highlight any potential legal/commercial red flags, including treasury, insurance or tax requirements
- Prepare bid templates
- Initiate bid/no bid meetings
- Ensuring bid/no bid forms are completed ahead of the meetings and distributed accordingly
- Upload outputs from the bid/no bid meetings into MS Dynamics CRM
- Prepare, manage and support to produce experience lists, testimonials, case studies, etc.
- Maintain the assigned repository of those materials in respective SharePoint
- Support on Client registrations/empanelment (e.g. portals) requirements in the Region assigned.
- Maintain local registrations database, valid and updated.
- Maintain tendering library on SharePoint
- Maintain standard proposal templates updated for identified sectors and products
- Review standard templates and enhance from a visual/marketing perspective
- Prepare and support for reporting requirements for the Sales Teams of assigned territory. (Data collection or compilation, preliminary analysis, presentation slides)
- Provide standard HSES / Quality data as required for bids and tenders
- Ensure final formatting of bids meets LRQA internal procedures and client requirements
- Maintain strong communication with Sales colleagues/account managers/Project Managers and business development community across LRQA
- Contribute to protecting and enhancing the reputation of LRQA and to improving the business, by putting forward new ideas and, when requested to do so, supporting the implementation of change to meet the future needs of the
- business.
- Manage client enquiries and queries regarding commercial and technical issues to ensure timely response by appropriate colleagues.

**Technical Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in relevant discipline
- 1-3 years relevant experience in a tendering/bid management role, preferably within a Professional
- Services or Consultancy organization
- Optional - Experience in Industrial sectors Oil&Gas, Downstream (Chemical, Petrochemical), Renewables (Wind offshore, Solar.)
- Good commercial awareness - in particular the analysis and interpretation of financial and non-financials
- Experience in using sales CRM tools such as MS Dynamics preferable
- Able to effectively communicate in English (written and spoken)
- Excellent interpersonal, presentation and communication skills.
- Attention to details
- Strong organizational skills.
- Self-motivated with “can do” attitude and ability to work in a highly technical environment
- Ability to coordinate workload, prioritize work and meet specified deadlines
- Able to work under pressure and tight schedules
- Committed to continuous personal development through continually looking for opportunities to improve skills
- Strong team player - able to work across different cultures, geographies, and time zones.
- Ability to network and manage stakeholders at different levels of seniority

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