Proposal Manager

**Proposal Manager**

**Fluence Office**: Melbourne

**About Fluence**

Fluence Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: FLNC) is a global market leader in energy storage products and services, and optimisation software for renewables and storage. With a presence in over 47 markets globally, Fluence provides an ecosystem of offerings to drive the clean energy transition, including modular, scalable energy storage products, comprehensive service offerings, and the Fluence IQ Platform, which delivers AI-enabled SaaS products for managing and optimizing renewables and storage from any provider. Fluence is transforming the way we power our world by helping customers create more resilient and sustainable electric grids.

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**Our Culture and values**

We are guided by our passion to transform the way we power our world. Achieving our goals requires creativity, diversity of ideas and backgrounds, and building trust to effect change and move with speed.

**We are Leading**

Fluence currently has thousands of MW of energy storage projects operated or awarded worldwide in addition to the thousands of MW of projects managed by our trading platform—and we are growing every day.

**We are Responsible**

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity.

**We are Agile**

We achieve our goals and meet our customer’s needs by cultivating curiosity, adaptability, and self-reflection in our teams.

**We are Fun**

We value the diversity in thought and experience of our coworkers and customers. Through honest, forthcoming, and respectful communications we work to ensure that Fluence is an inclusive and welcoming environment for all.

**The Role**

You will support the Asia Pacific (APAC) Sales team in winning new business through the creation of professional quality, differentiated proposals and managing the proposal development process from bid preparation, submission, contract negotiation and handover to Projects teams for Delivery.

You will manage a Deal Team and act as the central point of contact throughout the proposal development stage, manage dissemination of information and, establish and maintain internal relationships with all key areas of the business and customer stakeholder management.

In collaboration with the Sales leaders in the region, you will help set up the vision and winning strategy to compile the unique value proposition for each opportunities that Fluence is pursuing.

**Responsible**

Fluence is defined by its unwavering commitment to safety, quality, and integrity. We take personal ownership in what we do, developing trust in our relationships with internal and external stakeholders. We firmly believe in having honest, forthcoming, and fair communications. The successful applicant will;
- Understand customer requirements and manage the efficient development and submission of the Proposal within the given timeframes. This will include proposal planning and scheduling activities across the Fluence and stakeholder teams.
- Manage the preparation of tender proposals with multi-level stakeholder inputs, bid requirements, standard information and techno-commercial due diligence as required, in accordance with Fluence’s document standards and customer needs
- Ensure every submission meets customer submission requirements and adhere to Fluence’s internal approval process
- Bring fresh ideas to enhance the team. Support new tool and process implementation to further improve and optimise the use of team resources.

**Agile**

Here at Fluence, we strive to continuously improve, be intellectually curious and be adaptive to our customers and employee’s needs. Collaboration is key, both in our partnerships with our customers, and with each other. Fluence prioritizes the most critical efforts that allow for the greatest impact by ensuring;
- Standardised use of Proposal tools and process, improvement of the processes to increase agility and market response time and quality
- Approval process is completed for proposals submitted at each stage of the tender.
- Proposals and all key records are recorded in the opportunities in the CRM tool (Salesforce)
- Close coordination with other functions and stake holders within organization and ensure proper hand-over to the operations team.

**Skills, Knowledge & Experience**
- Bachelor degree qualified in Engineering or related discipline.
- 3+ years experience in complex tender and bid management and value-proposition building, preferably on an EPC type project/opportunity.
- Must have strong verbal and written communication skills to be able to negotiate with key stakeholders, ability to develop relationships across all facets of the business and build advocacy within the Asia Pacific region.
- Demonstrated sales and client focused acumens
- Ability to write - convey complex messages