Group Manager, Bid Management Americas
Group Manager, Bid Management Americas
(NetCracker Technology Corporation; Waltham, Massachusetts):
Join NetCracker Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, to work for a forward-looking software company, offering mission-critical solutions to service providers around the globe. Our comprehensive portfolio of software solutions and professional services enables large-scale digital transformations, unlocking the opportunities of the cloud, virtualization and the changing mobile ecosystem. With an unbroken service delivery track record of more than 20 years, our unique combination of technology, people and expertise helps companies transform their networks and enable better experiences for their customers.
Responsibilities:
This position is responsible for:
- Preparing proposals and RFx responses, which involves the following:
- Analyzing incoming customer requests and managing their qualification (bid/no-bid decision);
- Engaging and managing a virtual team of SMEs to create a high-quality proposal;
- Helping to define solution and pricing;
- Managing communication flows across the teams, being a single point of contact for the team;
- Ensuring and managing proposal review cycles according to corporate policies;
- Managing conflict resolution and providing timely escalation when required;
- Being responsible for the proposal quality control and all the opportunity records tracking; and
- Collecting feedback and follow-up on the response provided.
- Supporting pre-sales activities, which involves:
- Collecting and updating opportunity information, providing it to internal stakeholders, performing regular follow-ups;
- Responding to customer’s clarification questions and requests;
- Facilitating preparation for on-site solution presentations and workshops, participate in these sessions if needed; and
- Contributing to sales strategy definition.
- Being responsible for North America and LATAM regional team management, including:
- Supervising regional Bid Managers;
- Providing coaching and guidance to the team on complex bids;
- Conducting regular reviews of the team’s performance and help with focusing on the weak spots;
- Growing the team to support increase business volume by hiring senior and experienced staff;
- Reporting to higher management on the status of opportunities in the NA/LATM pipeline;
- Contributing to the company’s financial top lines by providing quality proposal with optimal commercial cost and minimum financial exposures in the region; and
- Acting as hiring manager for all bid managers in Americas.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
- Master’s degree in Telecommunications, Electronics, Communications, or a related field plus three years of experience in the telecommunications industry.
- Alternatively, may have a Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications, Electronics, Communications, or a related field plus eight years of progressive experience in the telecommunications industry.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Solid project management, problem-solving, and coordination skills as proven by ability to manage multinational and multicultural teams distributed across different time-zones (Latin and North America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, ANZ), including ability to build relationships with multiple stakeholders;
- Understanding of telecommunications business and familiarity with the largest players in the industry (Verizon, AT&T, Comcast);
- Awareness of current market trends and competition strengths of largest companies in the telecommunications industry;
- Proven ability to parse comprehensive documents including legal contracts;
- Strong organizational skill and ability to lead and manage meetings;
- Strong problem-solving skills;
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines;
- Solid understanding of main players in the industry and the applicability of the existing NetCracker and ultimate knowledge of our current and past projects portfolio;
- Clear understanding of client problems and reliable client solutions;
- Clear understanding and immediate ability to navigate sales cycle and sales strategy in the industry;
- Clear understanding of the value of particular solutions, basics of the business case, and ROI (Return On Investment); and
- Proven ability to calculate value of a telecom contract based on the above.
NetCracker Technology Corporation is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.
Apply online at https://www.netcracker.com/careers/open-positions/ . Reference: II33408. An EOE.