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The role ensures that customer tenders and quotations are prepared accurately, competitively, and in compliance with customer, commercial, technical, and governance requirements, enabling successful order conversion and effective handover to Operations.\nThe role provides structured coordination across Sales, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Logistics, and external manufacturing units to ensure tender risk is understood, commitments are achievable, and post-order execution is enabled through disciplined contract and information management.\nJob Context\nThe Tender and Proposals Lead operates in a tender-driven, engineered-solutions environment, acting as the central coordination point for pre-order and early post-order commercial processes. 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