Offshore Sales Quality Specialist

Specialist | Full-Time | Quality, Health, Safety and Environment

Join our Sales Quality team as an Offshore Sales Quality Specialist! You’ll play a crucial role in ensuring quality standards throughout the entire sales process for global offshore projects. Represent Vestas Quality, collaborate with regional functional management, and contribute to our business targets.  If you’re excited about contributing to sustainability apply now!

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Sales Quality is a department within Vestas Quality that aims for quality excellence throughout the entire sales process, from early deal negotiations to contract signing and handover for project execution. Sales Quality represents Vestas Quality at all sales stages, ensuring that we provide products and services to our customers with premium quality and performance. The department includes Sales Quality representatives in all sales regions, Offshore Sales and Project Certification Leads, and Inspection & Audit Specialists for Onshore and Offshore projects. As a member of our Sales Quality department, you’ll play a crucial role in helping Vestas achieve its ambitious business targets.” 

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for quality topics during all sales stages of our global offshore projects, representing Vestas quality in regional functional management and other quality teams, like construction and service.

In detail:

• Support the offshore contracting team in delivering and negotiating customer quality requirements, being the interface between global quality and offshore sales in the regions, supporting sales in submitting bids and closing contracts within the Vestas quality and specific contractual-related governance policies.
• Provide input on updates of Vestas´ global quality and specific contractual-related governance policies.
• Understand quality risks early in the sales phase, provide awareness to the sales organization and propose actions to mitigate impact across value chain.
• Support, develop and deploy global level sales quality strategies within functions and across the regions.
• Creation and maintenance of global and regional quality contracting supporting material and tools
• Ensure internally the delivery of customer quality requirements to reach contractual fulfilment. Provide relevant training to stakeholders in Vestas quality and specific contractual-related governance policies. Align customer quality requirements with Vestas´ abilities to comply.
• Support continuous improvement of Net Promoter Score.
• Facilitate alignment, standardization, implementation and continuous improvement of sales quality process, and procedures and support alignment, standardization, implementation and continuous improvement of other Sales process procedures and tools.
• Lead or support the global and regional organization in planning and hosting internal and customer audits and assessments (including internal audits).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Project Management, Engineering, Business Administration or other related fields
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in Quality Management, Sales, and handling quality within large, complex projects in a global project organization, ideally in the Offshore wind industry.
• Good knowledge of ISO 9001:2015 and related quality standards.including wind industry standards (i.e. IEC, BSH)
• Formal Quality Management training and certification.
• Training and certification in Project Management is beneficial but not a must.
• Fluent in English, and other languages are beneficial.
• Willingness to travel.

Competencies

• Well organized and the ability to work in a fast-growing business area with limited global supervision.
• Motivated, versatile, and team-oriented curious learner with good quality and business understanding.
• Focused personality with the ability to balance customer requirements and organizational capabilities, stipulated in an appropriate contractual agreement.
• Great stakeholder management skills and ability to create a positive and collaborative working environment both in the sales projects and in the sales quality department.

What We Offer

We offer a diverse workplace with solid professional and personal development opportunities in an inspiring, international work environment as a global leader in sustainable energy. We value initiative, responsibility and the right balance between creativity and quality in all solutions. You will become part of a highly professional, multi-cultural and ever-growing environment and play a leading role in contributing to quality excellence of the most prestigious projects in the renewables industry.

Additional Information

By joining Vestas, you will become part of the Supplier Quality & Development team, working out of our office in Hamburg, Germany or Aarhus Denmark. Applications are handled on an ongoing basis. Please apply online with your letter of motivation and CV as soon as possible, but no later than September 1, 2024. For any additional information, please reach out to recruiter Vips Patel, Vippa@vestas.com

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DEIB Statement At Vestas, we recognize the value of diversity, equity, and inclusion in driving innovation and success. We strongly encourage individuals from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those who may hesitate due to their identity or feel they do not meet every criterion. As our CEO states, "Expertise and talent come in many forms, and a diverse workforce enhances our ability to think differently and solve the complex challenges of our industry". Your unique perspective is what will help us powering the solution for a sustainable, green energy future.

About Vestas Vestas is the energy industry’s global partner on sustainable energy solutions. We are specialised in designing, manufacturing, installing, and servicing wind turbines, both onshore and offshore.  Across the globe, we have installed more wind power than anyone else. We consider ourselves pioneers within the industry, as we continuously aim to design new solutions and technologies to create a more sustainable future for all of us. With more than 173 GW of wind power installed worldwide and 40+ years of experience in wind energy, we have an unmatched track record demonstrating our expertise within the field.  With 29,000 employees globally, we are a diverse team united by a common goal: to power the solution – today, tomorrow, and far into the future.  Vestas promotes a diverse workforce which embraces all social identities and is free of any discrimination. We commit to create and sustain an environment that acknowledges and harvests different experiences, skills, and perspectives. We also aim to give everyone equal access to opportunity.  To learn more about our company and life at Vestas, we invite you to visit our website at www.vestas.com and follow us on our social media channels. We also encourage you to join our Talent Universe to receive notifications on new and relevant postings.