Digital Bid Technical Manager

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling, and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

Your future role

Take on a new challenge and apply your engineering expertise in a new cutting-edge field. You’ll work alongside passionate, motivated and dedicated teammates.

Job Title

• Digital Bid Technical Manager

Purpose of the Job

• Responsible for the Bid Technical Management activity and completion of digital cross-functional activities leading to the delivery, fulfilling both customer requirements and Quality Cost Delivery Performance (QCDP) activities during Project (contract execution).
• Ensure Digital Bid deliverables are aligned with Tender expectations.

Organisation structure (job belongs to..) 

Digital Services 

Reports directly to: 

APAC Cybersecurity Domain Leader

Functinal Reporting to:

Sr Manager BP & DS

Network & Links

Internal 

• DS departments 

• DS Regions 

• Bid manager, Bid Technical manager 

• Bid teams (PM, sub-system manager, …)
• Commercial Director  

External 

• Customer 

• Supplier  

• Partners (if any) 

Key responsibilities:  

On Digital scope of bid activities / Tender Work packages: 

• Tender planning:  

• Secure the Tender initialization for the Digital Tender Kick-off: Digital scoping (TrainTracer, Health Hub, AMA, Driving Simulator, Maximo,..), tender planning definition, review / allocation of requirements, review of interfaces with other sub-systems, QCDP allocation within Digital scope 

• Set-up of the governance with Digital stakeholders (Regions and Central) 

• Support the elaboration of the Digital Management Plan during Bid submission 

• Tender steering:  

• Monitor key dimensions of the tender for Digital WPs and raise alert in case of deviation: Planning deliverables, QCDP objectives, Risks / Actions, Resources,… 

• Manage the governance processes (incl. activity planning, monitoring and communication) 

• Provide strategic arbitration between and within system levels based on project constraints. 

• Support solution optimization initiative at Digital scope level 

• Manage the alignment with contractual requirements and variation orders.  

• Arbitration of QCDP baselining at tender level and change management at variation orders. Manage claim and litigations if needed  

• Ensure tender documentation is up to date and aligned with quality standards 

• Customer management:  

• Key Customer point of contact on the Tender demands Digital scope.  

• Collect, cascade and allocate customer feedbacks/modifications to all relevant stakeholders. 

• Coordinate the Variation Orders 

• Contract management:  

• Support discussion with licenses providers and third parties, especially for service level and support. 

• Performance Measurement 

• OTD of Digital Design Review and  QCDP delivery.

MAIN REQUIRED COMPETENCES

• Educational Requirements

• Engineering Graduate or equivalent on-work experience.

• Experience  :  

• Minimum 5 years in a managing position in an operational environment, in Digital solutions context 
• Experience of working in and with multi-national companies and in different business cultures 

• Competencies & Skills 

• Bid management and digital technology knowledge in the railway industry 
• Good Knowledge of Project management and Bid management processes 
• Good knowledge of railway products and systems 
• Strong leadership, coordination and communication skills and capacity to orchestrate cross-functional activities in a multi-cultural and multi-level (system & sub-systems) environment. Result-oriented.  
• Drive to push new topics throughout the organization and in front of the customer. 
• Rigorous, autonomous, capacity to learn fast complex technical topics 
• Good inter-personal skills, need to animate work of composite teams over several locations 
• English mandatory
•  Competencies & Skills
• Project management and digital technology knowledge in the railway industry
• Good Knowledge of Project management and Bid management processes
• Good knowledge of railway products and systems
• Strong leadership, coordination and communication skills and capacity to orchestrate cross-functional activities in a multi-cultural and multi-level (system & sub-systems) environment. Result-oriented. 
• Drive to push new topics throughout the organization and in front of the customer.
• Rigorous, autonomous, capacity to learn fast complex technical topics
• Good inter-personal skills, need to animate work of composite teams over several locations
• English mandatory.

Things you’ll enjoy

Join us on a life-long transformative journey – the rail industry is here to stay, so you can grow and develop new skills and experiences throughout your career. You’ll also:

• Enjoy stability, challenges and a long-term career free from boring daily routines
• Collaborate with transverse teams and helpful colleagues
• Contribute to innovative projects
• Utilise our hybrid working environment
• Steer your career in whatever direction you choose across functions and countries
• Benefit from our investment in your development, through award-winning learning
• Benefit from a fair and dynamic reward package that recognises your performance and potential, plus comprehensive and competitive social coverage

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63  countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.