GE Vernova brings together a portfolio of energy companies, including power generation, wind energy, electrification, and digital businesses. With a focused approach, GE Vernova accelerates the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, thereby driving economies and delivering the electricity essential for health, safety, security, and improved quality of life.
As a Sales & Proposal Manager (m/f/d) you will be supporting our Sales Team for the turnkey projects order intake, margin and cash. The project portfolio includes specific high voltage projects in different market segments.Job Description
Major Responsibilities:
- Develops the business based on a good customer relationship and making spec-in for future business opportunities.
- Leads the pricing and the preparation of the commercial offers.
- With the support of all stakeholders he / she leads the negotiation of an offer.
- Ensures the competitiveness of the bid prepared due to the calculation of target price for a project.
- Makes the commercial risk assessment and define measures to minimize the risks identified.
- Explores alternatives (technical solutions, sourcing, innovative content ...) allowing to differentiate our proposal, and defends these alternatives in front of the customer.
- Leads all Functions involved in the bid team and ensures coordination between all roles involved for timely preparation of good quality Technical Offers, BOQ, associated costing and Execution Plan, in line with the defined strategy, the applicable GE Grid Solution rules and the Customer bid process.
- Is accountable for the vetting of the Compliance with the turnkey RfQ’s, with the Customer T&C and Technical specification, and with Grid Solution offer to the Customer of the Commercial & Technical offers from participating product PL’s. Gets, aligns and supports optimization and competitiveness of the technical offers and costing from Grid Solution supplying entities.
- Together with Sourcing and Supplying entities, optimizes project Cash Out.
- Supports the Sales Team along the elaboration of the offer and implementation of the win strategy for the deals from the Go/No-Go process to the Bid Approval process and the final submission.
- Proactively understands Customer needs and leads all roles involved in the bid preparation to answer to Customer needs.
Qualifications / Requirements:
- Min Bachelor’s degree from an accredited technical university or college, such as electrical engineering or similar.
- Moderate sales experience witihing grid & infrastructure sector, expecially high-voltage products portfolio, with proven leadership skills.
- Experience in dealing with complex EPC/turnkey projects and contractual structures.
- Fluency in German and English language
- Willingness to travel 30% plus.
Desired Characteristics:
- Experience in dealing with customers, both technically and commercially at all levels within corporate environment.
- Operational rigor.
- Strong business acumen, leadership, discipline in managing the day to day business.
- Excellent communications skills.
- Ability to work in international and matrix organizations.
What We Offer:
- Extensive opportunities for personal and professional development.
- Flat hierarchies and a pleasant working atmosphere and company culture.
- A permanent employment within a rapidly growing company.
- Attractive compensation based on tariff and non-tariff agreements, including sales bonus, company car, and other social benefits.
Relocation Assistance Provided: No
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college
- Experience in turnkey project business with proven leadership skills
- Experience dealing with complex projects and contractual structures
- Willingness to travel 30% plus
- Experience dealing with customers technically and commercially at all levels
- Expertise in tender management, team management and development
- Strong knowledge of power grid products and EPC turnkey
- Operational rigor, strong business acumen, leadership and excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in international and matrix organizations
GE Vernova Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about GE Vernova and has not been reviewed or approved by GE Vernova.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) plan includes company matching contributions and additional company retirement contributions, with access to Fidelity resources and financial planning consultants. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings beyond a basic match.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is available with flexible, continuous or non-continuous usage, and is complemented by adoption resources and Work/Life Connections guidance. Maternity leave is described as extended relative to typical workplace norms.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs include 12 paid holidays, permissive time off for many salaried roles, and dedicated personal, illness, and caregiving time for U.S. new hires. Some hourly roles start with a defined PTO bank, while other roles may offer unlimited time off.
GE Vernova Insights
What We Do
GE Vernova is a planned purpose-built company on a mission to electrify the planet while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different. Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. GE Vernova brings together GE’s portfolio of energy businesses including Power, Wind, Electrification and Digital businesses. With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.
Why Work With Us
Join our team, to evolve and grow, surrounded by some of the brightest minds in the industry who help you get better every day. You’ll get the chance to rewrite the rules, work on cutting-edge technology, and be part of a global team for positive change.
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