Tender Manager at Hutten - 32 - 38 hours

• A gross monthly salary between € 4,250 and € 5,500 based on 38 hours per week, depending on your knowledge and experience.
• 25 vacation days and 8% holiday allowance.
• A good pension scheme and a net expense allowance.
• The possibility to work hybrid, including an appropriate home office allowance.
• A laptop and phone to perform your work well.
• A (delicious) lunch every day when you work at the office.
• Space to develop yourself and help build the further professionalization of our Tender Desk.

Do you know what it takes to win a tender? Do you like to take control of complex processes and do you get energy from writing a strong and convincing story? Then this is your chance to make a direct impact on the growth of Hutten as a Tender Manager, but also to truly make a difference for our clients within the corporate catering sector.

As Tender Manager, you are the linchpin in our tender and procurement processes. From analyzing the request for proposal to submitting the final quote: you bring strategy, content, planning, and the right people together. You safeguard quality and ensure that we present a strong and distinctive proposal.

You work closely with sales managers, tender specialists, and experts from various parts of our organization. Together, you work toward one goal: winning the contract.

A good tender is about more than just answering a request. It is about understanding what a client truly seeks and translating this into a proposal that convinces. That is where your strength lies.

You analyze the tender, bring the requirements and assessment criteria into sharp focus, and contribute to the strategy. Subsequently, you ensure that the right colleagues join in at the right time. You gather their knowledge and translate complex information into a clear, understandable, attractive, and commercial story.

At the same time, you maintain control. You monitor the planning, organize the various consultation moments, and ensure that quality and deadlines remain on track. Even when multiple tenders are running simultaneously, you know what takes priority and maintain an overview.

• You take control of challenging tender and procurement processes from A to Z.
• You combine commercial insight with project management and strong writing skills.
• You have a direct influence on the quality and persuasiveness of our quotes.
• You collaborate with experts from various disciplines and bring their knowledge together into one strong story.
• You will be given space to contribute ideas regarding strategy and the further professionalization of our Tender Desk.
• You identify relevant tenders and procurements on public platforms.
• You analyze procurement documents and know how to quickly get to the core of the request.
• You assess requirements, assessment, and award criteria and identify relevant legal points of attention.
• Together with the involved colleagues, you draft the tender strategy and test it against our commercial objectives.
• You assemble project teams and guide the entire tender process from A to Z.
• You organize and lead qualification meetings, strategy sessions, review meetings, and pricing meetings.
• You collect, structure, and monitor all substantive input and translate it into a convincing quote.
• You safeguard quality, consistency, and planning, and ensure that the quote is submitted on time and professionally.
• You proactively support sales managers and contribute ideas on how we can continuously improve our proposals.
• You contribute to the further professionalization of the tender process within the Tender Desk.

You will primarily work from our Service Office in Veghel. Additionally, depending on the work, there is room for hybrid working. For this position, it may occasionally be necessary to travel to other locations.

• A challenging position in which you have a lot of responsibility and influence.

You are a strong interlocutor who switches easily between strategy, content, and execution. You maintain an overview when many things are happening at once and know how to bring different interests together. You are critical regarding content and quality, but never lose sight of the ultimate goal: winning a tender.

Do you largely recognize yourself in this profile, but don't tick every single box? Then we cordially invite you to respond.