Tender Strategist Dutch Market

You will actively participate in tenders for Dutch projects in the field of dyke reinforcement, quay walls, ports, and multidisciplinary infrastructure works, the Afsluitdijk, and the HWPB dyke reinforcement projects. Important projects for a water country like the Netherlands. In the Dutch market, the most economically advantageous tender (MEAT) is often the decisive factor. Furthermore, you’ll help with the strategy for tenders in other markets. Together with the tender team, you analyze the customer's request by organizing and facilitating strategic sessions. You’re capable of seeing our solutions through the client lens. You know how to translate the tender strategy to a winning bid where technical solutions are brought back to comprehensible measures.

Your workplace

You are part of an enthusiastic and committed tender strategy team, where we help and strengthen each other. Van Oord tenders for projects in various sizes worldwide. As part of the tender team, you’re the one who knows how to highlight the added value of Van Oord. You like working in a technical environment and taking complex matters head-on. You’ll work in varying tender teams consisting of experts from Van Oord, external advisors, and partners.

In the tender strategy team, we continue to learn from each other, challenge one another and help each other to continually improve the tender process. You will write MEAT-bids (In Dutch known as EMVI or BPKV) but also review the written plans of your colleagues. Van Oord is an internationally oriented, family-owned company where people come first. The business where we operate is dynamic and always evolving; as a team, we constantly challenge each other to grow as a team as well as individually.

About you

You are a skilled writer who enjoys setting their teeth into technical topics and gathering information and knowledge. You get energized when working with groups and like leading workshops. You are curious, critical, creative, a good listener, and quick at connecting people and ideas. You take a central and coordinating role in the EMVI process, seeing the bigger picture while keeping an eye for details.

• You have an affinity with (maritime) infrastructure.
• You have demonstrable experience with writing, tender strategy, and/or EMVI.
• You have excellent command of the Dutch language, both written and spoken.

We offer

We offer you a position in which you make an important contribution to our mission 'building a better world for future generations' in an organization that focuses on exclusive parts of the market. You will be part of a professional and collegial working environment where innovation, quality, flexibility, and creativity are key to success. In addition, we offer you:

• A salary that matches your responsibilities and experience;
• 32 holiday days (of which max. 7 collective);
• a variable bonus, depending on the company result among other things;
• a lease car or an attractive travel allowance (€ 0.31 per km) and home working allowance (€ 2.15 per day);
• flexible home working arrangement; on a full-time basis you can work 2 days from home;
• extensive development opportunities, including a very extensive online academy of Goodhabitz;
• an attractive pension scheme;
• unlimited use of our fitness room at our head office in Rotterdam;
• various communities to become a member of, such as: Young Van Oord, Van Oord Women, and the Van Oord staff association;
• various events and sports activities, such as winter sports, sailing weekends, cycling, and motorbike riding;
• option of collective health insurance (Van Oord pays for your supplementary package).