GEBS Proposal Lead - SEA

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Job Description

Job Summary:

The GEBS Proposal Lead is responsible for ensuring seamless coordination between the Regional Proposal Team and the GEBS Engineering Delivery Team to develop accurate, aligned, and executable engineering proposals. This role creates the single point of accountability for scope clarity, estimation validation, forecasting, and use of standardized tools, ensuring proposals are executable within approved budgets.

You will report to the Manager - Proposal Engineering.

Your Responsibilities:

Scope Alignment & Control

• Lead Sub‑Regional/GEBS Scope Agreement process for every assigned proposal.
• Establish the baseline for project execution by providing formal sign‑off on scope and estimations if you win the order.
• Ensure complete scope clarity between Region and GEBS teams to avoid misunderstandings, missing elements, or rework.

Estimation & Proposal Governance

• Review and validate GEBS Engineering Delivery Team's estimation, checking for completeness, effort logic, and align with customer requirements.
• Ensure both teams use the same approved estimation tools, templates, and calculation methods for consistency.
• Ensure that no task is estimated twice across teams by preventing duplicate scoping or estimation.
• Be a technical auditor for high value proposals.

GEBS Forecasting & Workload Management

• Provide accurate forecasting of upcoming proposals to GEBS Engineering, including win probability, estimated workload, technical complexity, and expected delivery timelines.
• Maintain a rolling forecast, improving visibility and resource readiness within GEBS.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration

• Be a primary bridge between Proposal, GEBS‑Proposal, and GEBS‑Engineering teams to ensure information exchange.
• Facilitate clarification meetings, scope reviews, and early‑risk identification discussions.
• Escalate conflicts or misalignments early and drive resolution.

Process Compliance & Continuous Improvement

• Ensure adherence to global proposal standards, workflows, and governance models.
• Identify recurring issues in scope communication or estimation accuracy and propose corrective actions.
• Maintain organised documentation for scope agreements, estimation validations, and forecasting logs.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering (Electrical/Electronics/Instrumentation or related).
• 10 years and above experience in Proposal Engineering, Cost Estimation, Project Engineering, or Technical Coordination roles.
• Strong understanding of engineering estimation and project scoping practices.
• Strong understanding of engineering estimation methodologies.
• Familiarity with automation, controls, or process systems engineering.
• Proficiency in MS Office and engineering estimation tools.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Strong coordination and follow‑through skills.
• Experience working with global engineering support teams (GEBS or similar shared services model).
• Ability to work with global teams and different time zones.
• Improve estimation variance between proposal and execution.
• Number of duplicate scoping issues identified/prevented.
• Accuracy and timeliness of GEBS forecasting.
• Audit of high value proposal and provide improvement plugins to Proposal Team
• Quality and speed of scope alignment across teams.
• Global collaboration may require flexible working hours.
• Open to travel for coordination workshops or alignment meetings.
• Could be short-term or Permanent stationed at satellite location.

What We Offer:

Our benefits package includes …

• Comprehensive mindfulness programmes with a premium membership to Calm.
• Volunteer Paid Time off available after 6 months of employment for eligible employees.
• Company volunteer and donation matching programme – Your volunteer hours or personal cash donations to an eligible charity can be matched with a charitable donation.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Personalised wellbeing programs through our OnTrack programme.
• On-demand digital course library for professional development.

... and other local benefits!

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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