Head of Technical Sales & Project Management, Offshore APAC

Vestas Technology & Operations > Frontend Engineering & Technology > Regional Engineering & Technology APAC

Vestas Technology & Operations (VTO) represents Vestas’ entire industrial system from Technology to Procurement, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Quality. In relation to Technology, VTO interfaces with Vestas’ regional business units through its Frontend Engineering & Technology (FE&T) organization comprised of Regional Engineering & Technology (RE&T) teams and Global Functional Leadership teams.

Regional Engineering & Technology (RE&T) Asia Pacific (APAC) represents Vestas Technology in Asia Pacific (APAC), where we operate across the spectrum of Sustainable Energy Solutions with Onshore and Offshore wind at the core.

In RE&T APAC, we are responsible for technical requirements management, technical scoping and contracting, technical value engineering, technical risk management, technical execution throughout the life cycle of a project, from Development to Sales to Customer Project Execution to Service.

The Offshore Technical Sales & Project Management team works on some of the renewable energy industry's most exciting technical value propositions and contracts, providing the link between our projects in Sales and Execution phase, with our customers and stakeholders in the Regional Business Unit and with our global Research & Development teams. We are now looking for a leader for this team, comprised of Technical Bid Managers operating in the Sales project phase, Technical Project Managers operating in the Project Execution phase and Offshore Support Structure Engineers.

Responsibilities

You will be a member of the RE&T APAC Leadership team, and will lead the Offshore-focused department and portfolio, developing, motivating and engaging a highly-skilled technical team, ensuring full accountability for technical solutions within Offshore APAC projects, and securing technical deliverables during sales and execution phase. Your key responsibilities will be:

• People leadership, with high focus on people and talent development, talent attraction, diversity & inclusion. In developing your team, you will be a role model for Vestas' core values: Accountability, Simplicity, Passion, Collaboration.
• Managing a portfolio of projects from a technical perspective, including resource planning and allocation across Technical Bid, Technical Project Management and Support Structure Solutions.
• Technical leadership throughout the life cycle of an offshore project, providing guidance and steering while empowering a multi-disciplinary team of technical specialists to ensure an optimized, risk-assessed and risk-mitigated business case.
• Developing continuous improvement with customer focus, scalability and quality focus front-of-mind, through strategic and structural improvement initiatives across the team.
• Piloting technical market requirements capture for offshore APAC to contribute to wind power plant technology roadmap inputs.
• Collaborating with key stakeholders across the business, including but not limited to: direct peers across APAC and global technical teams; our global Frontend Engineering & Technology and R&D functions; Regional Business Unit stakeholders including Offshore Sales, Offshore Construction, Offshore Service, Supply Chain, Procurement and Legal.
• You can expect a strong external-facing component, getting involved in building and fostering technical customer relationships, including Technical Key Account leadership. Through your team, you will be the first point of contact towards customers related to technical matters throughout Sales and Execution phases of an offshore project.

Qualifications

• Masters in a relevant field of engineering with commercial exposure.
• Experience in wind / renewable energy technical functions.
• Experience in developing people and a team of direct reports.
• Experience in directing technical negotiations, ideally of heavy machinery, power plant equipment or similar.
• English is essential, additional Asian languages would be advantageous.

Competencies

• Team and people leadership: listen, motivate, support, empower your direct reports in a high-performance team culture.
• Results-oriented, with the ability to develop a team with high quality focus.
• Solid communication skills and prior experience interacting with a variety of technical and commercial stakeholders, at every level of an organization, internally and externally.
• Experience and ability to present at executive level.
• The ability to be creative, organised and collaborative with proven experience working in diverse, complex and pressured project environments within a matrix organization.
• High level of customer focus, with a holistic understanding of how technical solutions impact a business case commercially and contractually.
• High curiosity for multi-faceted technical content and challenges, and ability to navigate technical problem-solving effectively, building a holistic understanding of commercial and legal aspects of technical solutions.
• Flexibility for travel across the region.

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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.