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Haworth Inc.

Bid & Design Associate

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In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
In-Office
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, IND
Senior level
Support the sales team by preparing designs and specifications, managing tender submissions, training junior associates, and ensuring timely project completion.
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Job Purpose:

Support the sales team on design and specification work and supervise the Bid & Design team in finalizing typical system and floor plan layouts and cost estimations on all products to offer in a tender bid for local and remote markets in the most timely and accurate manner.

A glimpse of your daily mission

  • Work with the sales team to understand the tender requirements/expectations.

  • Prepare design and specification works on the typical system configuration and floor plan layout.

  • Once drawings are finalized, prepare a bill of quantities and strategize product solutions to meet the tender’s specifications.

  • Work with Haworth factories and 3rd-party suppliers to specify non-standard products to customer's specifications for pricing.

  • Ensure tender is completed and submitted on time.

  • Support Bid & Design Manager on liaison with remote markets

  • Prepare data qualification for order entry and order file

  • Understand the project requirements/expectations from the remote market manager and work closely with the Bid & Design team to finalize the drawings and proposals.

  • Create presentation boards for a mockup exercise

  • Provide rendering work to enhance proposal bids

  • Create presentation materials in Microsoft PowerPoint format for a sales presentation.

  • Maintain all drawings and files in the archive library

  • Ensure the drawings and quotations are submitted on time.

  • Prepare weekly & monthly reports requested by BRC.

  • Independently support the Bid & Design Manager to coach a team of Bid & Design Associates (junior) or interns in developing the skills of using specification tools/drawing systems and tender document preparation and product knowledge.

Job Requirements and Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree/diploma/BE

  • 5-12 years of corporate experience, minimum 5 years in commercial furniture, with good computer software knowledge (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, AutoCAD, 3D Max, PCON, Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, CorelDRAW, Sketchup & Project Symbols)

  • Willing to work for extended hours to complete project deadlines, dedicated, meticulous, with great attention to detail.

Travel Requirements

NA

About us
Haworth is one of the world's largest manufacturers of office furniture, providing solutions for tomorrow's customers worldwide. At the center of our work is the human being: What does a person need to work, what pushes them, motivate them and what makes people feel comfortable at work? Only if we can answer that question, we are able to introduce designs to our customers that will make them achieve their goals. To stay one step ahead, we invest in our own research, have a worldwide network of interesting partners and are part of think tanks around the world who are trying to think ahead. The family-owned company, headquartered in Holland, Michigan/United States, employs more than 8,000 people and is represented in more than 150 countries in Asia, Europe and America with subsidiaries and partners.

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