Lead Bid & Project Manager
Licensed sponsor Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 hour ago
A Snapshot of Your Day
The Lead of Bid & Project Management for Data Centres and New Business Fields is responsible for leading the complete opportunity lifecycle from bid qualification through tender execution, project handover, and strategic delivery oversight. The role focuses on supporting growth in emerging markets including Data Centres, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Microgrids, Green Hydrogen, Electrification Solutions, Grid Edge Technologies, and other new business opportunities.
The position ensures winning, profitable, and executable solutions are developed while driving excellence across tender management, project management, commercial governance, risk management, customer engagement, and operational execution. This role acts as a critical interface between Sales, Business Development, Engineering, Procurement, Project Management, Operations, Digital Solutions, and Regional Business Units.
How You’ll Make An Impact
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
The Lead of Bid & Project Management for Data Centres and New Business Fields is responsible for leading the complete opportunity lifecycle from bid qualification through tender execution, project handover, and strategic delivery oversight. The role focuses on supporting growth in emerging markets including Data Centres, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), Microgrids, Green Hydrogen, Electrification Solutions, Grid Edge Technologies, and other new business opportunities.
The position ensures winning, profitable, and executable solutions are developed while driving excellence across tender management, project management, commercial governance, risk management, customer engagement, and operational execution. This role acts as a critical interface between Sales, Business Development, Engineering, Procurement, Project Management, Operations, Digital Solutions, and Regional Business Units.
How You’ll Make An Impact
- Develop and execute winning strategies for Data Centre and emerging technology opportunities to achieve sustainable order intake growth aligned with GT strategic objectives.
- Drive expansion into emerging energy and infrastructure markets by establishing best practices for new technology applications and business models.
- Ensure bids are executable, profitable, and resource aligned, improving tender-to-project handover effectiveness and enhancing project predictability.
- Lead governance reviews and approval processes to ensure comprehensive commercial, contractual, technical, and execution risk management.
- Implement digital and AI-driven tendering and project management solutions to improve organizational productivity and efficiency.
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Energy Systems, Project Management, or Business Administration.
- Relevant industry experience, with time in senior leadership roles involving tender management, project management, business development, and EPC project delivery.
- Proven record of leading complex international tenders, managing opportunities valued between £50M and £1B+, and developing winning strategies for highly competitive markets.
- Strong commercial acumen and financial literacy, with experience negotiating major commercial agreements and understanding contract law and risk allocation.
- Exceptional leadership capability, with experience leading geographically dispersed teams and driving business transformation initiatives.
Our Grid Technology division enables a reliable, sustainable, and digital grid. The power grid is the backbone of the energy transition. Siemens Energy offers a leading portfolio and solutions in HVDC transmission, grid stabilization and storage, high voltage switchgears and transformers, and digital grid technology.
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.
Rewards/Benefits
- Opportunities to work with a global team.
- Opportunities to work on and lead a variety of innovative projects.
- Medical benefits.
- Remote/Flexible work.
- Time off/Paid holidays and parental leave.
- Continual learning through the Learn@Siemens-Energy platform.