Commercial Coordinator - Subsea Cables

Company Description

Working at Boskalis is about creating new horizons and sustainable solutions. In a world where population growth, an increase of global trade, demand for (new) energy and climate change are driving forces, we challenge you to make your mark by finding innovative solutions for complex infrastructural and marine projects.

Boskalis has one of the largest global fleets of specialized offshore vessels, allowing us to carry out a broad range of offshore activities. We provide bespoke, sustainable, all-round solutions to tackle major worldwide maritime challenges. Our Offshore Energy division supports renewable energy development such as offshore wind as well as traditional fossil-fuel facilities. We engage in the entire journey from developing and transporting, to maintaining and decommissioning these facilities.

The Boskalis Subsea Cables Business Unit is responsible for the operations of the cable lay vessels. We work with state-of-the-art equipment like our cable layers Boka Ocean and Ndurance, and our trenching solutions Ndeavor with CBT2400, all supported by our large fleet of other vessels (survey, dredging, construction; transport and rock placement) through which we deliver integrated, multi disciplinary projects for our clients.

Job Description

The commercial coordinator is responsible for analysing market data, performing, and coordinating sales-related activities and deputising the Commercial Manager. This includes generating market/competitor insights to support intelligence-led decision making and coordinating inquiries from clients and internal stakeholders as well as support in preparing and negotiating proposals.

You will work with the broader commercial team to facilitate establishing and maintaining relationships with our present and future clients, third parties and internal stakeholders.

Imagine being the person responsible for first contact with an opportunity which grows into a ‘one of a kind’ project executed by your colleagues in the operations team and featured in the media! 

Your responsibilities as commercial coordinator:

• To support the commercial department in its tendering activities by consulting with colleagues. across the commercial, technical, legal, organizational, administrative, and operational disciplines at various levels.
• Produce relevant market, competitor, and administrative information for developing the commercial and / or business development plans.
• To gather pre-qualification and / or tender information from internal and external sources and support the preparation of proposals as part of a tender team.
• Maintain data and documents registration in internal and customer online portals and / or digital information systems.
• Ensure the timely availability of requested information and data, and in case of any deviation, informing the relevant (internal and external) stakeholders.
• To maintain contact with clients and third parties as a deputy to the Commercial Manager during pre-qualification, tender and commercial processes.

Your qualities 
You can move ahead as commercial coordinator if you:

• Degree qualified (preferably in Engineering, Business or Law).
• Excellent English communication skills – IELTS 8+ or equivalent.
• 2-3 years of prior working experience in a relevant setting.
• Are naturally curious and want to understand your own tasks and how (and why) they feed into the broader commercial objectives – you want to constantly improve.
• See connections that others miss and can distill them into meaningful information and actions.
• Have an eye for detail whilst appreciating the importance of understanding the bigger picture.
• Have an open, optimistic, and collaborative mindset.
• Understand and can navigate cultural and business practice differences, creating meaningful connections with global partners.
• Are fluent with digital systems and can use and develop tools to achieve complex tasks efficiently, including standard MS office, CRM systems, AI.
• Are a team-player able to communicate verbally, in writing and presenting at all levels of the organisation and to our customers.
• Are resilient, realising that not every proposal will be successful.
• Are willing to travel occasionally.
• Right to work in the UK or EU (as applicable). 

Qualifications

What you can Expect

• A dynamic environment: A job that allows you to collaborate with a talented team of experts from different backgrounds and contribute to making a significant impact.
• Rewarding conditions: A competitive package.
• Career development: We offer you plenty of opportunities to bring out the best in yourself.

Extra information

• Your team: You will work as a commercial coordinator in the business unit Subsea Cables in our office in Wynyard, UK. 
• Where you will work: You will be working at our office in Wynyard and at the campus in Papendrecht.
• Full/part-time job: The position of commercial coordinator is preferable a fulltime job - 40hrs a week.
• Next steps: Apply easily by completing the online application form. Interviews are held online or in the office. Once it’s clear we’re a good match, we’ll make you an offer – and look forward to welcoming you to the company.

Additional Information

We are more than happy to answer your questions about the position of Commercial Coordinator. Please contact Thijs Wanders, Corporate Recruiter, via thijs.wanders@boskalis.com

Interested?
Please apply by filling in your details and by uploading your cover letter and cv on our careers site. 

Disclaimer for recruitment and selection agencies
We appreciate your interest in our vacancies and understand that your candidate might be enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. However, our recruitment process is not structured this way, at Boskalis we handle recruitment ourselves. Therefore we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies. Any submission will be treated as a direct application.

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