Group Leader Sales Engineering / BID Manager

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Group Leader Sales Engineering / Bid Manager
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Job area
Corporate functions
Location
Veghel, Netherlands.
Contract type
Full time
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As Bid Manager & Group Leader Sales Engineering, you will play a pivotal role within our Distribution Sales organization. You will combine commercial leadership with people management, leading complex bid processes while guiding a team of sales engineering professionals towards continued success and growth.
What will you be doing?
Imagine starting your day by leading a bid strategy session for a major customer opportunity. Together with colleagues from Sales, Engineering, Service, Finance, and Legal, you align on a winning approach and define how Vanderlande can create maximum value for the customer.
Later in the day, you facilitate a customer workshop, confidently presenting concepts and guiding discussions around technical and commercial solutions. Meanwhile, your team of Sales Engineers is working on layouts, calculations, cost models, and technical proposals. You coach your team members, remove obstacles, and help them develop their skills to meet future challenges.
As deadlines approach, you ensure all proposal elements come together into a compelling and high-quality submission. Through structured planning, stakeholder management, and clear communication, you keep everyone aligned and focused on delivering the best possible solution.
When the bid is submitted successfully, you celebrate the achievement with the team while already preparing for the next opportunity. Through your leadership, commercial insight, and ability to connect people, you help Vanderlande continue to win business and deliver innovative solutions to customers worldwide.
Responsibilities
As a Bid Manager you will be responsible for managing the complete bid lifecycle and ensuring the de...