Bid & Quote Expert

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Ensuring appropriate presales support is given to sales teams in order to respond to RFQ or tenders from customers timely with optimized quality and pricing proposal while protecting margins.

Main tasks:

• Complete bid plan and host all meetings as per Bid & Quote process

• Manage virtual bid teams and inputs from all stakeholders

• Coordination of all approvals, reviews and tracking of discounts requested.

• Analyze and understand project opportunities in terms of customer requirements, timing, costs, risks, features, competition, winning price and any other area impacting bid content and strategy.

• Collect and analyze business intelligence data relevant for the bids.

• Provide timely response, optimizing project cost, protecting margin and supporting bid pricing strategy which maximizes the chance to win the deal.

• Conduct Reviews with Management and make bid pricing recommendations

• Interface with cross functional departments (Sales, Systems Engineering, Project management, Procurement, Product Group, Finance, legal, etc)

• Generate the opportunity financials and P&L and present them to management for informed bid decisions.

• Degree in Business, Economics or equivalent with a minimum of 4 years of working experience (experience in telecommunications industry would be an asset),

• Experience in project cost analysis and knowledge in competitive pricing,

• Able to work independently with good analytical and judgement skills, 

• Team player with strong communication skills and ability to work under pressure, 

• Attention to detail,

• Fluent in English as a minimum and fluent in other languages will be highly valued,

• Good Excel and/or Google Sheets knowledge

EEO Statement

Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. 

We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.