Job DescriptionNOTE: Please ONLY apply if you have sufficient experience and skills required as per job description below.
- * Maintain department KPIs and response turnaround times.
- Achieves planned results by decisions and actions based on professional methods, business principles, and practical experience within established policies.
- Resolve routine problems, investigate and analyze as required
- Perform the job with minimal supervision and high flexibility.
ResponsibilitiesThe Quotations specialist tasks and duties include:
- Review the RFQ/ITB with the Directors of Sales/Sales Managers and analyze the request
- Interpret the full requirements requested and determine/organize how to present the deliverables specified in the proposal request
- Instructions to Bidders
- Project Scope of Work
- Technical Specifications
- Deviations and Exceptions List
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Price Bid Sheets
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Engage appropriate disciplines/departments and distribute applicable portions of the proposal documents to each, including:
- Application engineering
- Operations (Manufacturing plants)
- Compliance
- Finance/Credit
- Legal
- Customer service (Local and Overseas)
- Field Service (Consumables, Tools, Carousels, Training, etc.).
- Logistics
- Quality
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Projects
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Schedule a Kickoff Meeting for the proposal if required, and work closely with the sales members to follow their guidelines.
- Perform a weekly follow-up meeting with sales members and task completions and highlight priorities.
- Determine the schedule for the proposal and respond before the deadlines.
- Follow the proposal department KPIs including response time.
- Coordinate with all departments for their input and documents they are to provide to ensure that the proposal is pulled together.
- Organize all deliverables to issue the formal proposal to the Client by preparing the quotation/proposal from A to Z via D365 and Omega systems, CPQ and follow the procedures to create the estimates.
- Manage the post-bid technical and commercial clarifications from the Clients
- Obtain the necessary approvals of GTM, visual compliance, and DOA related to the estimate. All approvals shall be logged
- Keeps and maintainsa log for the project proposals and maintains status until won or lost with the quotation specialists.
- Coordinate the handover to the Order management team, Projects & Operation teams
- Ensure any project requirements, ITP & any nonstandard items are costed and agreed by application engineering and the Quality department.
- Material costing shall remain with the proposal team and Sales Director/VP only and shall not be exposed to the sales managers.
Qualifications
- * Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 3-5 years of experience in similar position.
- Previous experience within an Estimating role.
- Product experience/knowledge of composites, understanding of bid processes, and negotiation.
- Understanding of the applicable Industry Standards for Fiberglass Composite Products.
- Piping /EPC experience.
- Strong mathematics , IT skills, problem solving.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word & Excel.
- Ability to use D365 , ERP systems.
- Ability to undertake material take-offs from 3rd party information.
- Ability to read & understand drawings.
