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Orlando, Florida, United States

Lead technical Bid Management organization for the North American and Latin American Regions. Responsible for Global Aeroderivative turbine offers and management of small and medium turbines for the Americas market.• Coordinate with sales leadership to define proposal strategy and project offerings• Key interface with order management organizations for manufacturing capacity and cost support• Provide input for product development strategies and R&D engineering direction• Member of local site leadership team.

Mount Vernon, Ohio

Lead responsibility for the financial and commercial aspects of project acquisition, bid preparation, and contract negotiation phases for the New Equipment Aero Derivative business. In addition, accountable for all Project Management Office (PMO) processes, scheduling and management reporting. The site PMO organization focuses on monitoring and measuring the overall project execution financial performance, scheduling and risk management. •Lead team of up to 20 project management and commercial financial individuals that focus on project governance, commercial finance business support and project scheduling.•Participate in contract negotiations and manage commercial and financial areas of bid proposals including currency / hedging risks, financial security, payment terms, state and country specific tax issues. •Maintain strong key relationships with business unit leaders in supply chain, engineering and manufacturing.•Oversee the project quality assurance process for projects and ensure that effective risk and escalation process is established.•Lead team of up to 20 project management and commercial financial individuals that focus on project governance, commercial finance business support and project scheduling.•Maintain strong key relationships with business unit leaders in supply chain, engineering and manufacturing.•Oversee the project quality assurance process for projects and ensure that effective risk and escalation process is established.•Participate in contract negotiations and manage commercial and financial areas of bid proposals including currency / hedging risks, financial security, payment terms, state and country specific tax issues.•Prepare annual and monthly new intake forecast with cash flow and profit impact for approximately $800 million yearly sales for Power Generation and Oil & Gas New Equipment sales.

Mount Vernon Ohio

Partnered with global sales organization to win projects while positioning the Distributed Generation (DG) organization to execute commercially sound and competitive contracts. Direct global team that provides commercial bid preparation support for throughout the sales and proposal phase. •Lead DG North American team that supports customer facing commercial support for negotiations of new equipment orders. •Validate organization is putting forward the most competitive offers by ensuring cost reductions on product baselines are measurable and translate to the bottom line.• Provide a global perspective of commercial product strategy and lesson learned as an input to project sales strategies.

Mount Vernon, Ohio

Financial lead of Rolls-Royce Energy’s projects financial accounting, reporting and control activities. This includes managing and governance for all project financial activities for original equipment and installation contracts globally while providing functional support to VP of Projects.•Manage Oil and Gas & Power Generation global OEM project financials across multiple legal entities and tax jurisdictions.•Integrate budgets and forecasts into business level plans and pro-actively work to ensure optimal performance and achievement of business targets & strategy.•Oversee P&L, balance sheet for projects organization with approximately $800 million of annual sales.•Key interface with external audit (KPMG) for project related accounting and annual audits.•Evaluate future business opportunities and make proposals/recommendations.

B.S., Business

Mba, Business