
Tender Planning Manager
- Valenciennes, Nord
- CDI
- Temps-plein
- Analyze bid documentation to understand schedule management requirements, including schedule structure, reporting constraints, and contractual requirements.
- Set/contribute to set a timeline for bid preparation (the bid schedule) and ensure its adherence until the bid submission.
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to integrate inputs and define project schedule interfaces.
- Contribute to formulating the project execution strategy and formalize the schedule key assumptions.
- Organize and lead the future Project schedule development based on contract requirements, subsystem commitments, gap analysis, and the bid execution strategy.
- Facilitate ALSTOM tooling available for bids.
- Organize and lead regular scheduling meetings.
- Identify the project schedule's critical path and risks, proposing optimization and mitigation actions.
- Highlight differences between the Customer expectation, the feasible project schedule and the to-be offered schedule.
- Produce the future Project schedule narrative (internal and customer version).
- Ensure on-time delivery of bid schedule-related deliverables.
- Present scheduling information during bid gate reviews.
- Involve the PL planning experts and Group Planning to enable the future Project schedule verification (Planning verification board) when applicable.
- On-time delivery of bid deliverables.
- On time delivery of schedule analysis for decisions by the Bid Team: critical paths for main milestones, planning risks and mitigation actions.
- Develop the schedules in line with defined quality metrics.
- Engineering or Business degree.
- Planning- / Project Certification.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in full time planning and scheduling role
- Industry related background
- Knowledge of different scheduling tools and techniques
- Fluency in English
- Experience in contract management or managing contractual obligations.
- Strong knowledge of scheduling theory and critical path methodology
- Proficiency in one or two scheduling tools (Primavera, MS-Project, Planisware, TILOS, etc.)
- Advanced skills in MS Excel or other data analysis tools
- Knowledge of time-related contractual obligations and principles of delay analysis.
- Solid comprehension of railway industry products and technologies.
- Good written and verbal communication skills; an effective team player.
- Ability to challenge and guide teams and be proactive in proposing solutions.
- Adaptability in a multi-cultural and rapidly changing environment.
- Good capability to manage efficient team working to produce the bid deliverables within a limited time and under stressful conditions.
- Customer oriented.