Mea Enterprise Bid Manager

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together**

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people’s lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

**The team you’ll be part of**

The Customer Experience organization provides a common interface to customers including account and relationship management, acting as the voice of the customer internally and creating demand across our business groups. While bringing deep understanding of local markets for our customer, the CX organization ensures strong alignment between sales and delivery teams.

**What you will learn and contribute to**
- The Bid Manager at Nokia NET is a job and a role at the same time.
- The Bid Manager Role is assigned to Bid Manager Jobs (located in the Sales Development) in advanced tenders (high sales value and/or complex solution).
- In standard and normal tenders the Bid Manager role is assigned to Account or Solution Managers.
- Bid Managers can, on request, coach Account Managers and Solution Managers on how a bid should be run, managing a large bidding team and driving
it in a time bound manner to get the deliverables as planned. In normal offers (lower sales value and/or single technology)
Account or Solution Managers will act as Bid Managers without getting this coaching support.
The Bid Manager is responsible to manage and coordinate the creation of the solution proposal as bid project managers' ensuring that Nokia NET value proposition, the commercial, service and technical parts are optimized, timely delivered and of good quality. In case of GSS (Global Sales Support) involvement the Bid Manager is the main interface to GSS.
- In selected and agreed cases GSS may also take over the whole bid work, including bid management.

**Your skills and experience**

Bid Manager is overall responsible for managing the bid according to Nokia NET bid process
- Contributes in development and communicates the bid strategy
- Ensure NDA conditions are followed
- Assembles the bid team and defines the work-split
- Drives Pre kick-off and kick-off meetings
- Handles customer Q&A process
- Ensures availability of Bid Directives
- Drives bid preparation and ensures keeping the schedule with regular status meetings
- Drives risk analysis
- Drives documents review
- Handling and storage of bid documents
- Manage procurement to coordinate and evaluate sub contractor bids
- Assembles the bid and assures consistency in overall bid, price and claim strategy
- Supports contract negotiation
- Supports in driving bid approval process through relevant management levels
- Leads Bid debriefing session
- Ensures handover to Project Management

**What we offer**

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

**international teams with balanced**

**composition, getting to work with colleagues from**

**Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer**

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

- One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
- Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
- Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
- LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Nokia’s employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.