Bid Manager (German speaking)

JAGGAER provides an intelligent Source-to-Pay and Supplier Collaboration Platform that empowers organizations to manage and automate complex processes while enabling a highly resilient, responsible, and integrated supplier base. With 30 years of expertise, we specialize in solving complex procurement and supply chain challenges across various industries.

Our 1,200+ global employees are obsessed with ensuring customers get full value from our products - ultimately enhancing and transforming their businesses. For more information, visit www.jaggaer.com

JAGGAER understands people are its most important asset and is looking for a Bid Manager to join the RFx Team to support and drive continued company growth through the successful delivery of pre-sales services for Global Sales Team. The Bid Manager is a central corporate role focused on owning development and content completion of RFxs and related documents. This includes but is not limited to project management, setting timelines, answering, and assigning requirements, editing, collation, and pageantry of final documents. The Bid Manager is an individual contributor who will collaborate with other internal organizations and utilize their knowledge of processes, and procedures to complete these documents.

• Provide input to help qualify deals and drive bid/no bid decisioning to ensure we apply the right resources to the right deals.
• Capture bid response requirements.
• Manage kick-off calls to review strategy, assignments, and response schedule/project plan.
• Own customer requirements writing assignments.
• Engage subject matter expert teams via CRM and ticketing tools.
• Monitor response team progress to ensure adherence to internal deadlines, action plans, compliance, and quality standards.
• Review and edit content for consistency and company brand guidelines.
• Ensure all submissions are completed on time and in accordance with customer guidelines and specifications while making JAGGAER’s response stand out and unique.
• Collaborate with peers to manage pipeline intake activity.
• Use CRM tool to proactively track activity status and history.
• Provide consultative support to participants about the RFx and other related processes.
• Develop business relationships among internal associates to ensure effective management of proposal generation.
• Capture and share lessons learned with the organization.
• Enhance RFx response process to improve win-rate by periodically providing feedback about the current process and identifying areas where we do not win.
• Collaborate with Global RFx team content administrator to maintain most recent content required to respond to RFxs.

• Strong English and German writing, editing, quantitative and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to comply with bid response requirements while making JAGGAER’s responses stand out from competitive offerings.
• Proven ability to determine, create, deliver and manage process flows.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and competing priorities.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Self-starter, able to work independently, able to meet deadlines and prepare materials with a high degree of accuracy.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word) is required.
• Experience with Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint are desired but not required.
• Proposal automation and CRM tools experience preferred.
• Understanding of Supply Management, Spend Management, Supply Chain, Procurement disciplines preferred.
• Experience in a role having dealt with software cloud solutions is a plus.
• Proposal management experience (within technology company preferred).
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Business Management or Communications related discipline preferred, not mandatory.

SUCCESS IN THIS POSITION:

• Internal Customer Focus: You understand our internal customers and stakeholders and work to ensure RFx support needs are met.
• Communication: You communicate clearly, directly, and regularly with internal stakeholders to ensure project timelines and tasks, and process is understood and adhered to, resulting in high-quality response documents for external customers.
• Collaboration: You proactively build internal relationships across the RFx and stakeholder teams. You provide guidance and support during the RFx process, and capture feedback for ongoing process efficiency.
• Work Style: You will be able to manage responsibilities in a proactive and independent manner requiring minimal supervision.

Our offer:

• A fun work environment in a young and motivated team
• Competitive salary, career plan
• Short communication channels and room for your creative ideas
• An international, professional environment with exciting opportunities
• An open-minded and dynamic corporate culture, training, and development
• Private health insurance, FitPass, summer and winter parties, vouchers for the most diligent employees, gifts for the new year, flexible working hours, various work-life balance benefits, and much more

Our Values:

Our values are at the core of who we are at JAGGAER. You will see these values entrenched in how we support our customers, work with team members, build our products, and in the culture we’ve created.

Be Collaborative: Foster a culture of mutual respect, working effectively and productively with others, and sharing responsibility for team success.

Be Accountable: Take ownership, learn from challenges, be proactive, and rise above one’s circumstances to achieve the result.

Be Adaptable: Embrace change, encourage innovation, and remain effective when experiencing major change.

JAGGAER is a proud equal opportunity/affirmative action employer supporting workforce diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, caregiver status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, genetic information, military, or veteran status, mental or physical disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.