HVDC Capture Team Leader

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HVDC Capture Team Leader

GE Vernova is looking for an exceptional HVDC Capture Team Leader to join our GSI Sales Team based in the Northern / Southern Europe.

GE Vernova - The Energy to Change the World

With over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy. We are electrifying the world while working to decarbonize it. Our name reflects our mission. “GE” carries a legacy of quality and ingenuity. “Ver” signals Earth’s lush ecosystems, while “Nova” nods to a new era of lower-carbon energy we are helping to deliver.

Focused on the future, GE Vernova is accelerating the shift to reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy. We help customers power economies and deliver electricity vital to health, safety, and quality of life.

Electrification

Our Electrification solutions modernize grids, enable renewable integration, and strengthen energy systems. From software to power conversion and storage, we help create smarter, more resilient energy networks.

Let’s Talk about the Role

The Capture Team Leader (CTL) leads the tendering and sales lifecycle for GSI Large & Complex projects, with a strong focus on HVDC opportunities, ensuring commercially robust, strategically aligned bids.

You will be responsible for orchestrating all non‑technical global business disciplines required to secure major opportunities, acting as the central driver of tendering strategy, pricing governance, and commercial and legal negotiations. Operating as the primary interface with external customers and partners throughout the tendering process, the CTL ensures that every bid is aligned with internal validation requirements and the Delegation of Authority, while cultivating strong, trust‑based relationships that position the organisation for long‑term success. This role blends strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and stakeholder leadership to maximise win probability on complex, high‑value projects.

Your Impact

• Drive commercial strategy — Deliver order intake, contribution margin and cash targets by shaping winning commercial approaches for large and complex tenders.
• Lead multi‑disciplinary tender teams — Coordinate regional commercial teams, product groups, Grid Solutions businesses and consortium partners to produce high‑quality, on‑time proposals.
• Shape winning bid strategies — Define competitive positioning, target costing and value differentiation to maximise win probability while ensuring executable, profitable deals.
• Own customer and partner engagement — Build trusted relationships, drive clarifications, and lead negotiations with customers and consortium partners through to contract signature.
• Ensure governance and risk rigour — Lead deal reviews, secure approvals within Delegation of Authority, and uphold ITO policy, risk management and compliance standards.
• Develop high‑performing teams — Provide hands‑on leadership, attract talent, and cultivate a culture of excellence across ITO tendering teams.
• Improve processes and performance — Enhance productivity, proposal throughput, cost accuracy and cycle times while contributing to global simplification and continuous‑improvement initiatives

Special Role Requirements

• Able to travel extensively to various field assignments across the region

What Success Looks Like in This Role

You should be a seasoned commercial leader with deep experience in complex tendering environments, capable of shaping winning strategies, guiding multi‑disciplinary teams, and building trusted customer relationships across large‑scale Grid Solutions projects.. You should also have…

• The ability to lead complex commercial pursuits — directing multi‑stream tendering activity, resolving issues quickly, and maintaining governance discipline.
• The capability to shape competitive, executable deals — including target costing, risk assessment, contract structuring and negotiation strategy.
• An understanding of Grid Solutions and turnkey project dynamics — particularly the commercial levers, contractual obligations and lifecycle risk drivers.
• An expertise in customer engagement and consortium management — forming strong relationships that enable aligned, viable and value‑driven solutions.
• A keen interest in driving business growth — through high‑quality proposals, market insight, and continuous improvement of ITO processes.
• A strong command of communication and presentation — able to articulate strategy, influence stakeholders and represent the business with credibility.
• A commitment to team development and leadership — fostering high performance, collaboration and capability building across tendering teams.

Where and how you'll work

• This is a fully remote position. We are open to the role being located anywhere in the region where we have an attached office  – for example Oslo, Glasgow, Stafford, Villeurbanne, Paris, Madrid.

Our Culture

Every action shapes our future. That’s why our north star is a culture of impact, where everyone is empowered to thrive and achieve.

Addressing the urgent need to build a more sustainable electric power system while improving the trajectory of climate change emissions are global priorities, and we take our responsibility seriously. That is our mission at GE Vernova: continuing to electrify to thrive and decarbonize the world We play a significant role in leading a new era of energy.

Our technology helps generate approximately twenty-five percent of the world’s electricity today, and we are working to power the rest. If we want the future of energy to be different, then join us and be the difference. Together, we are the Energy of Change!

We're determined to be the best place to grow

We believe that strong careers are built on a variety of experiences, strong connections, and continuous development. We’re committed to providing you the tools to navigate and shape a strong career journey that aligns with a healthy work-life balance. No two careers are the same, and yours should reflect your personal and professional goals. Your people leader and trusted mentors will support you through navigating your journey.

We also prioritize fair pay, performance-based rewards, and wellbeing programs for you and your family. With opportunities to move across teams and functions, your career can keep evolving while sustainability stays at the core of everything we do.

Inclusion & Diversity 

We are passionate about creating an inclusive work environment. By valuing the ideas and contributions of a diverse workforce we help inspire others to grow, succeed, and raise the bar for everyone.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, GE Vernova is committed to support disadvantaged groups whilst providing equal opportunities for both GE Vernova associates and applicants alike.

Join us at GE Vernova where results can be achieved by embracing a community of belonging.

Due to the high volume of candidates we receive, we will only contact successful applicants for the interview stage.

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