Knowledge for the world of tomorrow

Siemens Smart Infrastructure combines the real and digital worlds across energy systems, buildings and industries, enhancing the way people live and work and significantly improving efficiency and sustainability

Together, we create an impact

We work together with customers and partners to create an ecosystem that both intuitively responds to the needs of people and helps customers achieve their business goals. It helps our customers to thrive, communities to progress and supports sustainable development to protect our planet for the next generation

Would you also like to actively shape the future and make a positive impact on the lives of millions of people in Switzerland? Then you’ve come to the right place! Apply today for the role of Commercial Bid and Program Manager Enterprise Business.

The Role

Within our Global Enterprise Programs (GEP) team, we are looking for a motivated colleague to drive the end-to-end development and implementation of a customer program (cross-border/multi-site locations projects). You will work in a collaboration with our colleagues from technical units and countries as well as with the customers and external partners.

In your new role you will have a crucial impact in the development of the SI B Global Enterprise Business and encompasses customer and partner relationship management.

Join our team as our Commercial Bid and Program Manager and help us building a better tomorrow! If you have a growth mindset, with international commercial bid management and project execution experience, this is the role for you.

Location:  This role can be based in Switzerland, within the EU/ UK, depending on the current location of the selected candidate. The chosen candidate must have or be eligible to obtain work authorization for the designated work location.

Your new responsibilities

• Together with respective Bid and Program Management you will drive efforts to secure programs from internal and external customers end-to-end, from bid phase to contract execution
• You will supervise and lead the cross-border process: including Business Models, financing, taxes, costing and pricing process, customer negotiations
• You will manage program framework to local adoption approach, including development and continuous review and update of the commercial part of the Program Playbook
• You will be responsible for contract and claim management, starting from contract reading, customer negotiation / commercial & financial topics for Sales to Program Execution Handover, looking for the opportunities across the regions
• You will coach, mentor, empower, and supervise local project team members, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work
• You will support Program Managers for project scheduling, monitoring project cost allocation (in coordination with local areas) and execution effort to ensure profitability and reporting visibility
• You will be responsible to provide input into the quarterly program reviews and drive accurate program controlling and reporting
• You will continue to develop change control process & templates (as needed) to support change control approach agreed within Frame Agreement Drive continuously standardization & harmonization to gain efficiency in program handling

Your talents and experience

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics
• 5-10 years, preferably in commercial project management, especially in international/ cross border projects incl. bid management
• Project Management Professional (PMP) or Commercial Project Manager (CPM) certification preferred
• Profound understanding of internal business processes in sales and project execution (PM@Siemens, LoA, business models as well as Financial Reporting Guidelines incl. IFRS) highly preferred
• Strong financial, leadership, interpersonal, and analytical skills
• Results driven; customer focused; ability to interact effectively within cross-functional teams; collaborative style
• IT affinity, experience in working with MS Office, Qliksense, Dash, SieSales, etc
• Fluent in English and be able to explain complex topics in an engageable way

Employee benefits

• 2–3 days per week of mobile working is standard
• Mobility allowance
• Varied further training opportunities
• Access to employee share programs
• Further information about employee benefits can be found here
  

What it’s like working for us
We place significant emphasis on fostering an inclusive and flexible working culture that encourages everyone to be their authentic selves. Equal opportunities and diversity are important to us and contribute to an enriching corporate culture. We actively embrace mobile working to provide every colleague with more autonomy and the chance to achieve a good work-life balance. Learn more here

Frequently asked questions and contact information
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I look forward to receiving your application

Olger
Talent Acquisition Partner

Information for recruitment agencies: Siemens is not accepting applications from recruitment agencies for this position. Thank you for your understanding.