
Commercial Sales Professional
- Australia
- Permanent
- Full-time
- In your new role as Senior Commercial Sales Manager you will analyze customer requirements, evaluation methods and criteria in order to develop the winning strategy together with the Sales Manager
- Understanding business conditions as well as competition pricing
- Define business models based on business, customer and tax regulations
- Manage all commercial aspects of the bid such as contract analysis, cost calculation, financing concepts, currency, hedging, risks and opportunities, bonds, terms of payment, credit rating, insurances, export control, compliance etc.
- Building and maintaining relationships with external project collaborators like customers or consortium partners.
- Prepare and present the Limits of Authority (LoA) according to the defined levels required and acting as sparring partner for regions and bid team members
- Participate in negotiation of commercial customer T&Cs and consortium contracts with the applicable guidelines in coordination with the relevant departments (e.g. Legal, SFS, insurance, Taxes, etc.)
- Ensuring the correctness of the relevant approvals in accordance with the actual negotiations and providing lessons learned to financially and contractually comparable projects
- Providing regular order entry forecast in close cooperation with technical field sales colleagues.
- Your hands-on attitude is required to successfully manage the full scope of financial and commercial activities during the sales phase
- A degree in Business Administration/ Management, Finance, Accounting or equivalent professional experience
- 10+ years in various finance functions such as commercial project management, project controlling or accounting which includes project financing, accounting and reporting principles
- 3+ years experience in commercial bid or sales Management for product, service or solution business with external customers which includes offer preparation and contraction negotiations
- Analytical thinking result and quality oriented approach, solid professional judgment and problem solving ability are required competencies.
- Advanced knowledge in SAP and MS Office (Excel, Power Point)
- Excellent communication skills in business- fluent English, other additional language skills are also preferred
- Used to present results to management on regular basis
- Business travels might be required from time to time based on tender requirements
- Opportunity to work in a highly motivated team and in an international environment
- Regular exchange with high level Management in the course LoA process
- Facing a broad variety of customers such as Developers or Transmission System Operators in different countries.
- Working with all elements in modern power systems from renewable generation, advanced transmission systems to growing industry consumers.
- Directly contributing on the establishment of the energy systems of tomorrow