CPQ and Engineering Tools Specialist Cluj-Napoca

CPQ and Engineering Tools Specialist
Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania

Who are we?

At Vertiv, we’re on a mission to empower the people that will power the future. From a simple swipe to
- changing medicines, from push notifications to generative AI. We design, manufacture, and service the products and solutions that keep the world connected.  With $5 billion in sales, a strong customer base and global reach spanning nearly 70 countries, we are uniquely positioned to deliver greater value to our customers and create new opportunities for our people.

We are now looking for a colleague to join our team in Cluj-Napoca, Romania as a CPQ and Engineering Tools Specialist.

Position Summary

The CPQ and Engineering Tools specialist will report to the EMEA Process Improvement Manager within the Technology Application Engineering and Market Development function. He will develop new product configurators and work more generically on new tools definition, development, and maintenance in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Sales and Application Engineering Teams. This includes current applications, mainly Configure One (C1), Solution Designer, Power
Bi, Oracle Sales Cloud (OSC) and Oracle EBS and integrations among them, and any future applications supporting the Opportunity to Order processes.  

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to work and understand
  - edge technologies and innovative projects in the data centre space.
• Dynamic and collaborative work environment.
• Career growth and development opportunities.
• 13th salary;
• Meal Tickets;
• 10 additional days of annual leave;
• Private medical subscription at Regina Maria;
• Sabbatical leave;
• Gift tickets for Easter and Christmas;
• Flexible start working hours;

What you'll do?  As a key team player, your responsibilities include:

• Contribute to technical design, prototyping and developing products or solutions or tools in the current opportunity to order process.  
• Participate in activities to
  - test and release products or Solutions directly developed in any tools under the Responsibility or developed by other functions but with an impact on products.
• Support the
  -
  - day administrative functions pertaining to the sales applications, especially CPQ software and integrations among them, with a special focus on Price revisions and the changes required to permit a price revision to be successfully implemented by the pricing team.  
• Work in close collaboration with the offering teams to define the specifications for new product configurators and ensuring the integration within IT ecosystem;
• Ensure solution is scalable and meets overall business requirements, translate business requirements into technical specifications and identify/document functional gaps.  
• Participate in solution architecture reviews with project teams prior to design and development activities.  
• Keep on top of tracking assigned tasks/deliverables, risks & issues, and report to Management as needed.  
• Monitor and drive issues to resolution.  
• In coordination with Application Engineers develop new tools (web based or other) to automate their activities 
• Facilitation of, and direct involvement with content creation and data management enabling customers, partners, and internal / external stakeholders as appropriate to grow revenue and profitability.  
• Effective understanding, leverage, and guidance of the Configure-Price-Quote, ERP and other relevant tool, the configuration pricing logic, the Price approval process.
• Supporting creation of various KPIs using Power
  Bi/Smartsheet tools for reporting and ad hoc engagement in improvement of other processes within the AE community 

What makes you successful?  Bring your passion and expertise with:

• Diploma or bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or Systems 
• Fluent in English (spoken and written) 
• Work experience in an international environment is a plus
• Experience with PL SQL and or MS SQL is required.  
• Previous experience with HTML, Java and Java
  Script is preferred.  
• Experience with web service development (REST & SOAP) working with API and Integration frameworks is preferred.  
• Previous experience with Configure, Price, Quote tools is preferred (experience with Configure One (C1) and Oracle CPQ cloud would be a great advantage)
• Previous experience with structured web application tools with several users 
• Experience with Quote-to-order applications is preferred.  
• Excellent practical use of Microsoft Office 365 Suite, especially MS Excel, MS Power
  Point, Power BI, Visio 
• Experience with Microsoft Sharepoint is preferred.  
• Experience with Smartsheet is preferred.  
• Required to travel across EMEA for the performance of required duties. The estimated travel amount will be up to 10%.

The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.  

OUR CORE PRINCIPALS:   Safety.   Integrity.  Respect.   Teamwork.   Diversity & Inclusion.

OUR STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

• Customer Focus
• Operational Excellence
• High-Performance Culture
• Innovation
• Financial Strength

OUR BEHAVIORS

• Own It
• Act With Urgency
• Foster a Customer-First Mindset
• Think Big and Execute
• Lead by Example
• Drive Continuous Improvement
• Learn and Seek Out Development