Tendering Engineer

Transfo Services; Leeds; On-site; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy solutions company seeks a Tendering Engineer to join their team in Leeds. The successful candidate will manage the production of quotations for medium voltage products, ensuring adherence to service levels. Collaboration with external sales to develop effective strategies is essential, alongside strong technical and commercial knowledge. This role offers competitive salary, various perks, and opportunities for career growth in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Bonus Scheme

28 days annual leave

Employee Share Ownership Programme

Qualifications

• Sound knowledge of customer base and business drivers.
• Strong technical understanding of switchgear technologies.
• Demonstrated track record in contract administration.

Responsibilities

• Produce tenders according to department demands.
• Review technical enquiries for standard pricing.
• Collaborate with external salesforce on strategies.

Skills

Commercial knowledge

Technical knowledge

Negotiation skills

Understanding of competitor offerings

Job description

Are you our next Tendering Engineer?

Schneider Electric has a great opportunity for the right person to join our well-established team as a Tendering Engineer in Leeds. Work within the Tendering Team to produce quotations for Leeds medium voltage products, meeting the expected service levels of customers and achieve and exceed quotation lead time and conversion rates.

What you will be doing:

• Produce tenders as necessary according to department loading demands.
• Review technical enquiries and identify those which can be offered using the standard pricing.
• Work in collaboration with the external salesforce to support and execute strategies to establish products and solutions during identification phase.
• Ensure that Standard quotation and pricing tools used within the tendering process, are kept continually updated to meet market needs.
• Review and approve tender price/costing estimates and submit for management approval in accordance with the tendering processes.
• Ensure that formal risk analysis and mitigation is carried out on appropriate tenders and is submitted with approval requests.
• Ensure all orders received against a tender are properly verified to be in line with the quotation and all information is present prior to handover to contracts.

What will make you successful:

• Sound commercial knowledge of the customer base and their business drivers
• Strong technical knowledge, including a clear understanding of competitor offerings and the latest switchgear technologies.
• Demonstrated track record in contract administration and proposal management
• Awareness of the company's manufacturing/purchasing strategy & manufacturing capability
• Excellent negotiation skills and ability to manage contract amendments
• Willingness to upskill on commercial terms and conditions
• Understanding of the function of other departments

What's in it for you:

• Opportunity to work on diverse projects ranging from local tenders to complex solution proposals
• Development of expertise across multiple business areas and technologies
• Career growth through exposure to various aspects of contract and proposal management
• Collaborative environment working with cross‑functional teams
• Platform to enhance your commercial and technical knowledge

What we offer you:

Competitive salary & Bonus Scheme, 28 Days Annual Leave + Public Holidays, Holiday Buy & programme, Pension Scheme, Employee Share Ownership Programme, Various Health & Wellbeing Support Options, Gym Flex, Career Hub (internal mobility opportunities + access to mentors & projects globally), Shopping & Dining Discounts, Learning Portal and much more.

At Schneider Electric, Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of our organisation, it's an integral part of our history, culture, and identity. We recognise that embracing diversity unlocks innovation and creativity and fosters collaboration. We want our employees to reflect the diversity of our communities and the customers we serve. As a result, our teams are stronger to drive the company's future.

“We are proudly participating in the Disability Confident Program offering support to people in the workplace who consider themselves living with a disability.”

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Impact

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.

Company Highlights

€36 billion global revenue
+13% organic growth
150 000+ employees in 100+ countries
#1 on the Global 100 World’s most sustainable corporations

Equal Opportunity Statement

Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.

Schneider Electric upholds the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here.

Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.