Siemens

Commercial Sales Manager

Siemens$90K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years in commercial sales or project management
  • Experience with contract negotiations and commercial project management
  • Strong writing, presentation, and communication skills
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
  • Resilient and positive under pressure with tight deadlines
  • Experience in international projects and working with diverse teams

Responsibilities

  • Lead the commercial aspects of the bid process for Substation projects
  • Collaborate with tender and sales managers to develop strategic bids
  • Ensure compliance with internal rules and guidelines
  • Define optimal business models and contract structures
  • Support contract negotiations and project terms
  • Build relationships with internal and external stakeholders
  • Verify cost accuracy and review pricing calculations
  • Ensure bids comply with accounting standards

Benefits

  • Career growth and development opportunities
  • Supportive work culture
  • Company-paid health and wellness benefits
  • Paid time off and holidays
  • 401K savings plan with company match
  • Family building benefits
  • Parental leave
Full Job Description
A Snapshot of Your Day

In this finance role, as a Commercial Sales Manager you will work on interesting and challenging opportunities in a highly motivated, cross functional team. You will be managing all commercial and financial aspects throughout the whole sales and bid process and be responsible to produce complex bids from a commercial point of view for our Substation projects.

A flawless collaboration between the Commercial Sales Manger, Tender Manager, and the Sales Manager is key for the overall success.

How You'll Make an Impact
  • Review customer requirements and take the lead on all commercial aspects such as bid specific terms and conditions, tax and currency concepts, import duties, credit risk management, financial securities (letters of credit/bank guarantees), terms of payments, cashflow analysis, and insurances, all the way to bid submission and post bid follow ups.
  • Partner with technical sales and tender manager to develop winning strategy.
  • Ensure adherence to all relevant internal rules & guidelines including Limits of Authority (LoA), New Collaboration Model (NCM), FRG, tax, trade finance or currency guidelines.
  • Support to define optimal business model and contract structure (i.e. ZRG, NCM).
  • Support during contract negotiations (i.e. projects terms & conditions).
  • Build strong relationships with internal & external functions, e.g. management, finance, legal, insurance, taxes & customers.
  • In cooperation with the proposal team ensure the accuracy of the cost and review pricing calculation.
  • Assure bid and contract award are in compliance with accounting standards (i.e. IFRS) to secure order intake and revenue recognition.

What You Bring
  • BS/BA degree or in higher finance, business administration or related field, or equivalent work experience required.
  • 5+ years of experience working in commercial sales or commercial project management role.
  • Experience within contract negotiations, commercial project management and financial project controlling, or cost estimations.
  • Strong writing, presentation & meeting facilitation skills. Excellent communications skills; able to clearly and concisely express information & requirements through writing, speaking and presentations.
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Resilience and positive attitude when working under pressure, due to multiple bid assignments with varying degree of complexity and deadlines.
  • Worked in international projects and with intercultural and cross functional teams.
  • Required amount of travel around 10%-15%.
  • Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization.

About the Team

You will work in a diverse team with an open approach that will constantly support you and your development. We regularly exchange ideas, learn from each other, and achieve more as a team than each individual alone.

Rewards
  • Career growth and development opportunities
  • Supportive work culture
  • Company paid Health and wellness benefits
  • Paid Time Off and paid holidays
  • 401K savings plan with company match
  • Family building benefits
  • Parental leave
https://jobs.siemens-energy.com/jobs

About Siemens

Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich and the largest industrial manufacturing company in Europe with branch offices abroad. The principal divisions of the company are Industry, Energy, Healthcare, and Infrastructure & Cities, which represent the main activities of the company. The company is a prominent maker of medical diagnostics equipment and its medical health-care division, which generates about 12 percent of the company's total sales, is its second-most profitable unit, after the industrial automation division. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. Siemens and its subsidiaries employ approximately 385,000 people worldwide and reported global revenue of around €87 billion in 2019 according to its earnings release.
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