Head of Tenders

Join Fastned at the forefront of Europe’s electric vehicle and charging infrastructure revolution! As our Head of Tenders, you’ll support our growth across Europe, securing new locations and paving the way toward our goal of 1,000 stations. Together with 400+ colleagues from over 40 nationalities, spread across 10 countries, we drive change in the energy transition. What sets us apart is our focus on reliability, sustainability and clean energy. We have been awarded “Best Charging Network” in the UK, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands, further establishing Fastned as a leading player in the field. This is your opportunity to make a lasting impact!

We stand out from other charge point operators with our high-power charging, drive-through model, and commitment to super-reliable infrastructure. Our stations provide fast, seamless charging experiences, allowing drivers to charge their EVs in minutes, not hours. As a leading provider of ultra-fast charging, we’re focused on delivering exceptional service and innovation to accelerate the transition to electric mobility, and it all starts with securing the best locations!

Role

As Head of Tenders, you’ll play a pivotal role in steering Fastned’s success in an increasingly competitive tender landscape across Europe. Acting as the strategic bridge between the country based expansion teams and the central business functions, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the tendering process across all countries while ensuring quality, compliance, competitiveness, and alignment with our Fastned objectives.

You’ll set up and lead a team of tender specialists, empowering them to develop global standards, build knowledge libraries, provide tools and guidance for country teams and support complex or strategic bids. You’ll also play a key role in cross-functional governance and tender performance visibility to senior leadership.

This is a high-impact role at the heart of Fastned’s mission to accelerate the transition to electric mobility. Tenders are at the core of Fastned’s location strategy: they create access to our most valuable sites, they are detrimental for new market entries and they give us an opportunity to stand out from our competitors.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead our Tender practice: embed and improve our tendering framework and roll out across the company

• Develop standardised tools and templates, as well as a central knowledge database, to build a strong foundation for knowledge management

• Ensure all country teams follow consistent quality standards, review protocols, and compliance guidelines

• Cross-functional coordination: Serve as a connector between Network Development and the wider organisation, and implement cross-functional governance and decision making

• Represent the business: Act as the voice of central teams in local discussions, ensuring local needs are met while aligning with  global Fastned priorities

• Drive quality and excellence: conduct reviews of strategic tenders and capture lessons learned to continuously improve our bid strategies

• Support local teams with bid strategies, guidance and secure organisational support for their tender applications

• Drive performance: track and report on tender performance

• Manage & develop team: Build a team of high-performance experts and coach them in their personal growth.

Who are we looking for?

We’re looking for a Head of Tenders who’s ready to grow and make an impact. If you have a passion for creating new strategies, driving performance, and working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, this could be the perfect role for you.

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in tenders or proposal management, ideally in a regulated or project-based industry (e.g., construction, infrastructure, IT, energy)

• Proven track record of managing complex, high-value projects

• A sharp analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.

• Ability to manage and synthesise complex information from diverse sources and integrate it into a coherent, compelling narrative

• Great at bringing stakeholders along on the journey - exceptional communication and interpersonal skills are a must.

• Experience in building a new team and motivating people to give their best

• Growth mindset - a strategic thinker who isn’t afraid to get creative and think outside the box.

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to juggle multiple priorities and willingness to dive into both strategy and execution.

• Comfortable using industry-specific software and tools.

• Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment.

• Open for regular travel within Europe

• English is a must, and any additional European languages (German, French, Dutch) are a bonus!

Join us in building a better future!

We work hard to change the world, but we don't forget to recognise & celebrate our successes, big and small. We focus on work-life balance, provide genuine work flexibility, and have family-friendly policies in place. Electric mobility is new territory for you? Don’t worry! As part of your onboarding, you will participate in a series of exciting workshops where you will learn everything about our industry and fast-charging infrastructure. Our benefits package includes:

• Stock option plan - we believe in shared value creation.

• Pension plan (fully covered by Fastned).

• A training and development budget of €3,000 per year per employee, because development and training are important to us and our sector offers endless opportunities.

• In order to experience and enjoy the EV life, you get access to our fully electric vehicle fleet (all charging expenses covered), which is also for private use.

• 29 holidays. Additionally, we give you two mission days you can use to contribute to Fastned’s mission or to support a cause that is important to you.

• Daily lunches, snacks & drinks are provided at our office locations.

• Next to fun events year-round, we throw notorious Christmas parties and organise an amazing yearly trip abroad with all employees.

• Other perks include flexible working hours, full travel compensation and the working gear of your choice.

We’re looking forward to your application!

Fastned stands for equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, gender identities, sexual orientations, religions, neurodiversity, disabilities, parental status or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique.