Bid Manager - Customer Services

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Why you’ll love working for Siemens!

• Freedom and a healthy work- life balance– Embrace our flexible work environment with flex hours, telecommuting and digital workspaces.
• Solve the world’s most significant problems – Be part of exciting and innovative projects.
• Engaging, challenging, and fast evolving, cutting edge technological environment.
• Opportunities to advance your career and mentorship programs on a local and global scale.
• Competitive total rewards package.
• Profit sharing available.
• Rewarding vacation entitlement with the opportunity to buy and sell your vacation depending on your lifestyle.
• Contribute to our social responsibility initiatives focused on access to education, access to technology and sustaining communities and make a positive impact on the community.
• Participate in our celebrations, social events, and offsite business events.
• Opportunities to contribute your innovative ideas and get paid for them!
• Employee perks and discounts.
• Diversity and inclusivity focused.

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Position Overview

Together we move people and goods efficiently and sustainably.

At Siemens Mobility, we are shaping the future of transportation. Our Customer Services business ensures the reliability, availability, and performance of rail systems across their entire lifecycle—supporting our customers with innovative service solutions and digitalization.

We are looking for a Bid Manager to join our Customer Services team in Canada. In this role, you will lead the development of competitive service proposals for rail and mobility projects, contributing directly to the growth and success of our service portfolio.

What will you do?

• Lead the end-to-end bid management process for Customer Services opportunities (e.g., maintenance contracts, lifecycle services, digital services)
• Analyze customer requirements (RFQs/RFPs) and define winning bid strategies aligned with Siemens Mobility’s service portfolio
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including Sales, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Legal to develop high-quality, compliant proposals
• Drive the development of technical and commercial concepts, including service scope, delivery models, and pricing strategies
• Identify and assess risks and opportunities, ensuring appropriate mitigation and value creation measures are incorporated into bids
• Ensure compliance with Siemens Mobility governance, export control, and quality standards throughout the bid lifecycle
• Manage bid schedules, reviews, and approvals to ensure timely submission
• Support customer clarifications, negotiations, and contract finalization, as well as handover to project execution teams
• Contribute to continuous improvement of bid processes, tools, and knowledge management within the Customer Services organization

What will you need to succeed?

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field
• Several years of experience in bid management, proposal management, or commercial project management, preferably within rail, transportation, or industrial services
• Strong understanding of service business models (maintenance, long-term service agreements, lifecycle management)
• Proven ability to manage complex, multidisciplinary bids in a matrix organization
• Strong commercial acumen, including pricing, costing, and contract fundamentals
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Structured, detail-oriented mindset with the ability to work under tight deadlines
• Knowledge of rail systems, signaling, rolling stock, or infrastructure services is a strong asset

Salary is commensurate with experience, and ranges between $ 118,000 CAD - $ 133,000 CAD, excluding bonus and benefits. In addition to base salary, this role includes eligibility for an annual discretionary bonus based on Company performance metrics.  

About us.

We share our ideas and champion the people behind them.

Siemens Mobility is a separately managed company of Siemens AG. As a leader in transport solutions for more than 175 years, Siemens Mobility is constantly innovating its portfolio. Its core areas include rolling stock, rail automation and electrification, a comprehensive software portfolio, turnkey systems as well as related services. With digital products and solutions, Siemens Mobility is enabling mobility operators worldwide to make infrastructure intelligent, increase value sustainably over the entire lifecycle, enhance passenger experience and guarantee availability. In fiscal year 2022, which ended on September 30, 2022, Siemens Mobility posted revenue of €9.7 billion and had around 38,200 employees worldwide. Further information is available at:

In Canada, Siemens Mobility has been providing solutions to the transportation industry for more than 40 years, including railway infrastructure maintenance services on the rail networks in Quebec and Ontario, light rail vehicles in Edmonton and Calgary, trainsets delivered to VIA Rail Canada, new trainsets for Ontario Northland that will bring back Northeastern passenger rail to Ontario that are expected to be delivered in 2026, an order for locomotives for Montreal’s exo and the rail electrification and overall system maintenance of the light rail transit network in Kitchener-Waterloo. Our footprint also includes dispatching services operated from Dorval, Québec, to more than 25 railways across Canada covering over 3,400 miles of track.

Today, Siemens Mobility provides customers with full-service capabilities for the entire life cycle of their projects to help evolve our growing cities while supporting Canada’s sustainability goals.

To learn more about Siemens Mobility, visit our website at  Siemens Mobility | Canada | Siemens Mobility Canada