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This position reports to:
Technical Sales Support Manager__
Your role and responsibilities
As a Commercial Operations Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the development of competitive, high-quality techno-commercial proposals, ensuring each bid reflects the optimal solution, accurate costing, and alignment with both customer requirements and business objectives. Reporting to the Commercial Operations Director, this role acts as the custodian of the bid process, ensuring cross-functional collaboration across Sales, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Project Execution, and Product Management to deliver compliant, timely, and profitable offers.
The Work Model for this role is: #LI-Hybrid
- Managing end-to-end bid strategy, defining the optimal technical solution, and commercial positioning for each opportunity.
- Overseeing all technical, financial, and project-related inputs, including cost models, cash-flow considerations, margin analysis, engineering/commissioning estimates, and resource planning.
- Coordinating cross-functional contributions from Sales, Engineering, SCM, Finance, Legal, and Project Execution to ensure aligned, timely, and high-quality proposal deliverables.
- Ensuring full bid governance and documentation control, maintaining accurate records, assumptions, decisions, and version history in compliance with internal audit requirements.
- Conducting customer-facing commercial discussions, including terms & conditions, clarifications, and negotiation inputs to support Sales.
- Monitoring and reporting bid progress, providing structured updates, dashboards, and post-bid win/loss analyses to support continuous improvement.
- Identifying and mitigating commercial, technical, and contractual risks, supporting the formal Risk Review process and ensuring alignment with company policies.
Qualifications for the role:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, or another related discipline
- Around10 years’ experience in commercial operations, project management, or proposal development within industrial automation, energy, or engineering services.
- Proficient understanding of industrial automation and control systems, with the ability to interpret technical specifications.
- Skilled in financial modeling, cost estimation, and margin analysis.
- Familiarity with contract terms, risk reviews, and compliance requirements.
- Skilled in communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experienced methodological approach, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple bids under tight deadlines.
More about us
The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. The Division’s goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), the Division brings over 50 years of specialized knowledge delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline
- Around 8 to 10 years of experience in commercial operations, project management, or proposal development
- Experience within industrial automation, energy, or engineering services
- Understanding of industrial automation and control systems
- Ability to interpret technical specifications
- Financial modeling, cost estimation, and margin analysis skills
- Familiarity with contract terms, risk reviews, and compliance requirements
- Communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Methodical approach and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple bids under tight deadlines
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and disability and life insurance included. Immediate eligibility in some roles reinforces the sense of dependable core coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off offerings are described as broad, including paid holidays, sick days, volunteer time, sabbaticals, and, in some cases, 25 days of PTO. Flexible scheduling and remote-work options add to perceived time-off and flexibility value.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are positioned as robust, including a 401(k) with company contributions or matching and, in some cases, profit sharing or pension savings. Stock purchase/share acquisition programs complement longer-term savings options.
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What We Do
ABB is a leading global technology company that energizes the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. By connecting software to its electrification, robotics, automation and motion portfolio, ABB pushes the boundaries of technology to drive performance to new levels. With a history of excellence stretching back more than 130 years, ABB’s success is driven by about 110,000 talented employees in over 100 countries. www.abb.com
