Tender Manager

At WSP, we work on the challenges of today and tomorrow. From sustainable mobility and energy transition to climate adaptation, the built environment, and infrastructure. Behind every successful project stands a strong tender team that turns opportunities into winning propositions.

As a Tender Manager, you play a key role in this. You bring together experts, project leaders, and commercial teams, manage complex tender processes, and ensure that our distinctive knowledge and experience are convincingly translated to the client. At the same time, you contribute to the further professionalization of Sales, Business Development, and Tender Management within WSP Netherlands.

As Tender Manager, you are responsible for organizing, guiding, and successfully completing tenders and commercial processes. You move effortlessly between content, process, and stakeholder management.

Your responsibilities include, among other things:

• Leading and coordinating complex tenders, MEAT (Most Economically Advantageous Tender) processes, framework agreements, and commercial propositions.

• Developing distinctive client strategies and persuasive win-themes.

• Organizing kick-offs, strategy workshops, reviews, and lessons learned sessions.

• Monitoring planning, quality, compliance, risks, and decision-making throughout the entire tender process.

• Bringing together multidisciplinary teams from different Business Units to arrive at the best solution for the client.

• Performing market and client analyses to support business development and bid/no-bid decisions.

• Managing and further developing knowledge bases containing reference projects, CVs, client insights, and best practices.

• Actively connecting Dutch tender opportunities to expertise and references from our European and global WSP network.

In addition, you play an active role in the further development of uniform tender and sales processes within WSP Netherlands.

Within WSP, we believe that technology helps us work smarter and more effectively. Therefore, you will be given plenty of room to utilize digital innovations and AI applications within the tender process.

You will be involved in:

• Applying AI and digital tools for market analyses, tender detection, competitor research, and content development.

• Testing and implementing new technologies within tender teams.

• Translating available data into actionable insights for Business Units and commercial teams.

• Ensuring the responsible, safe, and high-quality use of AI within tenders.

You are a structured and connecting professional who switches easily between different stakeholders and disciplines.

At WSP, you get the chance to work on some of the most challenging and socially relevant projects in the Netherlands.

In return, we offer:

• A visible and impactful role within a leading international consultancy and engineering organization.

• Collaboration with experts from the Netherlands, Central Europe, and our global WSP network.

• The opportunity to contribute to the further growth of Sales, Business Development, and Tender Excellence within WSP Netherlands.

• Working on projects that contribute to a more sustainable, safer, and better-connected world.

• Ample opportunities for professional and personal development.

• Growth perspective towards Senior Tender Manager or other commercial and strategic roles.

• An attractive employment benefits package that matches your experience and ambitions.

When considering a career change, it is essential to work for a company that aligns with your values and goals, a place where you can feel at home.

We are one of the world's leading engineering and professional services companies. Our trusted employees share a common purpose to make a positive and lasting impact on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion.

Hesitating to apply? Just do it! We are proud of promoting diversity, equal opportunities, and professional integration within our teams, and we are convinced that our differences and an inclusive work environment contribute to our development. All applications will be carefully considered.

With us, you can.