Senior Tendering Manager (all genders) High Voltage with fluent German

Job Description Summary

GE Vernova is facing a momentum of hypergrowth, and we are currently scaling up our teams, creating others from scratch, and bringing our industry to the next level. Join us on this mission! GE Grid Solutions and its Power Transmission (PT) business line focus on delivering innovative products and solutions aimed at efficiently transferring electrical energy across various distances and applications. This business line typically offers a range of products, such as transformers, switchgear, power cables, and related technologies that are essential for maintaining the integrity and reliability of electrical grids. We are currently looking for our next SeniorTendering Manager (all genders) to join the Europe Product+ Sales team. You will cover Europe with focus on North/Central/East.

Job Mission

In this role YOU will be responsible for Product+ business development, technical prescription, co-ordination of tendering activities, product qualification and ensuring customer satisfaction. You will build & implement the right strategy together with the Product Sales Specialist (PSS) and arrange the right setting and tendering ressources for the specific opportunities. This position reports to Europe Product+ Sales Leader.

Main Tasks/Responsibilities

• Drive regional commercial activity for the Product+ portfolio, ensuring alignment with order intake and margin targets while monitoring competitor offerings.
• Engage regularly with customers alongside Account Managers to understand needs, shape demand, and refine go‑to‑market channel strategies.
• Define project strategies by assessing complexity, analysing RFQs (Request For Quote), and developing tailored value propositions.
• Lead spec‑in/spec‑out activities, product qualification, tendering and tendering team co-ordination, initiation and co-ordination of the tendering process, ensuring continuous follow‑up and bid quality.
• Build competitive technical‑commercial offers with the tendering team, considering customer needs, product competitiveness, and factory constraints.
• Set and validate pricing through Estimate Analysis Sheets in coordination with PSS, Account Managers and PL Commercial.
• Drive internal tender approvals and lead comprehensive risk assessments across commercial, financial, legal, and H&S dimensions.
• Prepare and present technical and commercial offers, manage negotiations, and resolve technical/commercial clarifications with customers.
• Finalize contracts and ensure smooth handover to factory execution teams.

Your Profile

• Electrical engineering degree with strong technical expertise in high‑voltage substation business and products and solid knowledge of the regional electrical transmission ecosystem (utilities, EPCs, contractors).
• Extensive experience in commercial, sales, or tendering roles within a multinational environment, also project management experience is welcome.
• Professional proficiency in English and German, with willingness to travel (additional Slavic language highly welcome, e.g. PL).
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and leadership capabilities, combined with a collaborative team mindset.
• Proven ability to analyse complex issues, resolve problems, and lead programs or projects effectively.
• Skilled in planning, documenting, marketing, and executing programs with a structured, results‑oriented approach.
• Travel time required will be around 20% mainly within the Europe region.

Why we come to work

At GE Vernova, our employees are always up for the challenge - and we’re always driven to find the best solution. Our projects are unique and interesting, and you’ll need to bring a solution-focused, positive approach to each one to do your best. Surrounded by committed, loyal colleagues, if you can dare to bring your ingenuity and desire to make an impact, you’ll be exposed to game-changing, diverse projects that truly allow you to play your part in the energy transition.

What we offer

• Professional Growth: Dynamic team, extensive resources, and training for skill development
• A Booming industry with Cutting-Edge Projects: Involvement in high-profile, innovative projects
• Global Exposure: Collaboration with a diverse, global network of industry experts
• Collaborative Environment: Supportive culture fostering creativity and teamwork
• Career Advancement: Opportunities for leadership and career growth within the organization
• Competitive compensation package plus corporate benefits

At GE Renewable Austria GmbH, we offer a competitive compensation package and benefits based on your performance, experience, and qualifications. The minimum annual gross salary for this position, in line with the Austrian collective agreement for the electrical and electronics industry, is EUR 54,968.06 (full-time, 38.5 hours/week). Depending on your qualifications and experience, a higher salary is possible.

Additional Information

• Relocation Assistance Provided: No
• Addressing the climate crisis is an urgent global priority and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our singular mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to help decarbonize it. If we want our energy future to be different…we must be different.
• Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, “GE,” in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. Together, we have The Energy to Change the World.