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KION Group

Forklift, warehouse equipment and software solutions

Solution Development Lead

Proposal ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-time$102.4k - $130k

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts in a related discipline, or an advanced degree.
  • Five to eight years of successful experience in a related field; an advanced degree may substitute for experience where applicable.
  • Ability to lead, direct, motivate, and coordinate proposal-team activities.
  • Ability to manage multiple opportunities with various deadlines simultaneously.
  • Ability to reliably forecast and report proposal status.
  • Ability to travel up to 20% of the time.

Responsibilities

  • Work on medium to large individual projects involving complex designs that integrate hardware and software.
  • Analyze customers’ business requirements and application objectives, and develop application designs using products to meet customer needs and uptime guarantees.
  • Understand customer operations and Dematic products to derive staffing levels needed for success, as required.
  • Bundle service offerings to complement new-business system solutions.
  • Generate costing workbooks for assigned opportunities and services.
  • Develop and document the data needed to generate proposal documents and work with the proposal team to ensure accuracy.
  • Assist in developing new proposal content for new services.
  • Monitor assignment schedules and partner with Sales to obtain missing information for assignment completion.
  • Assist with maintaining Dematic proposal boilerplate materials as assigned.
  • Respond to semi-complex inquiries about iProposal tool design, functionality, and usage.
  • Initiate reviews with Operations stakeholders on costing methodologies and adjust them as needed.
  • Coordinate meetings with Sales and Operations to discuss renewals outside standard costs and document agreements.
  • Manage multiple priorities and work with stakeholders to ensure assignments are accurate and completed on time according to target completion dates.
  • Conduct training sessions for the Business Development department on specified areas such as estimating standards and sales proposal standards.
  • Perform complex technical interchange and knowledge transfer related to processes and product application in system design.

About the Company

KION Group

Forklift, warehouse equipment and software solutions

KION Group provides forklifts, warehouse equipment, and integrated automation, along with software to optimize supply chains. It sells and leases industrial trucks, offers automated storage/retrieval and warehouse management software, and provides financing and digital transformation services through KION Digital. Its strength comes from a broad brand portfolio (Linde MH, STILL, Dematic, Baoli, Fenwick, OM, Voltas) delivering end-to-end intralogistics across hardware, software, automation, and services for real-time, secure operations. The goal is to help customers improve efficiency, accuracy, and visibility in their supply chains by tightly integrating material handling with digital tools and services.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Wiesbaden, Germany
Founded
2006

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