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Chef de projet offre

English translation: Bid Manager or Bid Project Manager

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French term or phrase:Chef de projet offre
English translation:Bid Manager or Bid Project Manager
Entered by: Louisa King

11:33 Mar 18, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources / job title - industrial services sector
French term or phrase: Chef de projet offre
Hi, has anyone come across this job title before please? It is in a list of contact names and job titles in a short announcement from an industrial services company about the winning of a contract. It's a bit difficult to give more context as it is in a list, but I was wondering if it could perhaps be rendered as 'Project manager - bids' or 'Project manager - proposals'. Has anyone come across it before please?

The full list of job titles is:

Commercial
Chef de projet offre
Ingénieur procédés
Ingénieur etudes
Ingénieur realisation

Thanks & best wishes
Louisa King
United Kingdom
Local time: 18:52
Bid Manager or Bid Project Manager
Explanation:
Just a suggestion...

http://www.careerstructure.com/careers-advice/profiles/bid-m...
http://www.indeed.co.uk/Bid-Project-Manager-jobs
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Gaurav Sharma
India
Grading comment
Great, thanks very much for all your input everyone.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +5Bid Manager or Bid Project Manager
Gaurav Sharma
3 +1proposal project manager
Sandra & Kenneth Grossman
4Project Manager (Tender Stage)
B D Finch


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
Bid Manager or Bid Project Manager


Explanation:
Just a suggestion...

http://www.careerstructure.com/careers-advice/profiles/bid-m...
http://www.indeed.co.uk/Bid-Project-Manager-jobs

Gaurav Sharma
India
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Great, thanks very much for all your input everyone.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard
12 mins
  -> Merci philgoddard
agree  Mario Freitas:
2 hrs
  -> Merci Mario
agree  B D Finch: Looking at this again, I think this is probably the best fit for industrial services.
3 hrs
  -> Merci B D Finch
agree  Francis Marche: That's the term I would use
11 hrs
  -> Thnx Francis Marche
agree  KMPrice
17 hrs
  -> Thnn KMPrice
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
proposal project manager


Explanation:
I don't think this refers to "bids" as they have already submitted a bid containing a proposal and have won the contract.
This person would manage projects within the proposal, or would manage the proposal itself as a project.

Alternatively, it could be the person that manages proposals in general for submission in bids.


Sandra & Kenneth Grossman
Israel
Local time: 20:52
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RomanianRomanian
PRO pts in category: 30

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lorraine Dubuc
8 mins
  -> Thanks!
neutral  Gaurav Sharma: I don't understand from where you have assumed it. It is just a job title.
30 mins
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Project Manager (Tender Stage)


Explanation:
I think that, in the UK, we would use the term "tender" here, rather than "bid".

Presumably, they only manage the project until the contract is let and then somebody else takes over. So they are really dealing with the business development side of things.

http://www.xpatjobs.co.uk/jobs/ Senior-Project-Manager-Tender-Stage/10332x200160650
"Senior Project Manager (Tender Stage)
Hertfordshire, England
Senior project manager with pre contract tender experience with uk top 10 Main ... need for an experienced Senior Project manager to work with the existing Directors /..."



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Note added at 3 hrs (2014-03-18 15:02:41 GMT)
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From your context, I would guess that the reason this post appears in the list when the contract has already been won is to credit the person who had the leading role in winning the contract. It would also be useful for prospective clients to be familiar with their name.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2014-03-18 15:10:01 GMT)
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On second thoughts, this is perhaps more suitable for the client company project manager, rather than the contractor's project manager.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 19:52
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 83
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