Regional Proposal Manager (f/m/d)

The Regional Proposal Manager is responsible for leading the end-to-end proposal process across DP World’s logistics business, ensuring high-quality, competitive submissions that align with customer requirements and company objectives. Working closely with cross-functional teams, this role coordinates the development, review, and delivery of proposals while driving proposal strategy and execution. The position plays a key role in securing new business opportunities, supporting customer retention, and contributing to the growth of the organization.

How you will contribute:

• Evaluating RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs to identify the key requirements that need to be met or exceeded in order to deliver strong customer proposals.
• Ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality, competitive proposals, mainly for Global Key Accounts, in close collaboration with the Lead Tender Manager and/or Bid Owner.
• Supporting the preparation and submission of compliant, professionally structured proposals within customer-defined deadlines, excluding pricing content.
• Coordinating with cross-functional teams such as Marketing, IT, Product, and other subject matter experts to gather and align proposal content.
• Ensuring compliance with proposal management processes, guidelines, and internal standards.
• Supporting the implementation and rollout of proposal management software across the team.
  Maintaining and updating the Content Management System used for tender management.
  

Your key qualifications:

• University degree in business administration, economics, logistics, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of relevant professional experience (tender management) with a solid business understanding, including basic financial awareness and sound commercial judgment.
• Previous experience in the logistics & supply chain industry, knowledge of global forwarding operations, and the broader freight and customer landscape would be considered advantages.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey information clearly, tactfully, and confidently across different audiences.
• Fluency in English is a must.
• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills, with a detail-oriented, proactive, and solution-focused mindset.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in multicultural teams while also working independently and managing priorities in a results-driven environment.
• Strong interest in innovation and continuous improvement. Good understanding of how AI and digital tools can support smarter, faster, and more efficient ways of working.
• Customer-oriented mindset, with the ability to understand needs, respond proactively, and build trust through clear communication and reliable delivery.
• Agile approach to work, with flexibility, curiosity, and a proactive attitude toward new ideas, challenges, and ways of improving processes.
  
  

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 120,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

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