Schneider Electric
Senior Tender Specialist
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Senior Tender Specialist
As a Senior Tender Specialist, you'll be at the center of our commercial success, leading the development of complex proposals that help customers solve their toughest automation challenges. From software-defined automation and digital solutions to safety systems and control platforms, you'll bring together technical expertise, commercial strategy, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver winning bids.
What will you do?
- Lead strategic proposal development for complex automation opportunities.
- Build compliant and executable commercial and technical proposals.
- Assess customer requirements, project risks, schedules, and resource needs.
- Coordinate internal experts and external partners throughout the bid lifecycle.
- Develop proposal documentation, estimates, pricing inputs, and executive approvals.
- Support modernization, migration, upgrade, and greenfield projects.
- Drive continuous improvement by leveraging AI-powered proposal tools and best practices.
- Facilitate effective proposal-to-project transitions after award.
What qualifications will make you successful?
- Degree, diploma, or equivalent experience in engineering, industrial automation, or a related field.
- 8+ years of tendering, proposal management, or bid management experience in industrial automation or the electrical industry.
- Experience leading large, integrated project bids.
- Knowledge of DCS, PLC, SCADA, Safety Systems, and open automation technologies.
- Experience with CRM, estimating, and AI tools to support proposal preparation.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
- Proven ability to manage multiple deadlines and stakeholders.
- Experience with risk assessment methodologies and proposal governance.
- Ability to travel up to 10% nationally and regionally.
- For Quebec-based candidates functional French is required.
About Schneider Electric
At Schneider, we believe that every employee is a talent who deserves equal opportunities. This means you matter. Every individual needs to feel valued, supported, and treated fairly to do their best work.
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The expected pay range is CAD 114,750 - CAD 162,000 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives.
Our Total Rewards Package
- Care for yourself and your family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: insurance coverage for health, inclusive of medical, dental, vision, basic life, accident, and disability insurance; telemedicine program; paid family leaves; parental and care leave; employee assistant program with mental, family, and legal counselling and flexible work arrangements.
- Invest and plan your future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: base salary; incentive plans; employee share ownership plan; retirement plan with employer pension match.
- Grow your skills and career. We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, Senior Talent Program, global career opportunities, access to our Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms like Coursera to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.
- Team up in the workplace. We encourage teaming up through project opportunities on the Schneider Career Hub, smart ways to collaborate, celebrating contributions via a recognition program (including service anniversary), sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.
- Support your community. We make a difference in your community with volunteer leave, programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation, and initiatives that support youth education.
Looking to make an IMPACT with your career?
When you are thinking about joining a new team, culture matters. At Schneider Electric, our values and behaviors are the foundation for creating a great culture to support business success. We believe that our IMPACT values – Inclusion, Mastery, Purpose, Action, Curiosity, Teamwork – starts with us.
IMPACT is also your invitation to join Schneider Electric where you can contribute to turning sustainability ambition into actions, no matter what role you play. It is a call to connect your career with the ambition of achieving a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable world.
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€40 billion global revenue
+9% organic growth
150,000+ employees in 100+ countries
You must submit an online application to be considered for any position with us. This position will be posted until filled.
Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.
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