Business Support Specialist - Tenders

at  Agilent Technologies Inc

JOB DESCRIPTION

Agilent inspires and supports discoveries that advance the quality of life. We provide life science, diagnostic and applied market laboratories worldwide with instruments, services, consumables, applications and expertise. Agilent enables customers to gain the answers and insights they seek, so they can do what they do best: improve the world around us. Information about Agilent is available at agilent.com.
As our next Business Support Specialist, you will be responsible to ensure tender legal compliance for private & public contracts in Belgium, working closely with legal and sales departments.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for a motivated individual with great communication skills and the following:

• University degree, ideally in a legal or business field
• First experience in managing/working with tenders, either in a similar position or in sales
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools
• Proficiency in Flemish, French and English
• Proficiency with analysis/reporting tools would be an advantage

On a personal level, you are proactive, autonomous and a team player. You also have great communications skills to interact with a lot of internal and external partners. You show problem solving skills and you have the ability to make quick decisions.

• Perform tender admin & coordination activities, drafting documentation & quotation and checking formatting, completeness, accuracy, consistency and compliance
• Work closely with internal Product Specialist, Sales & Legal teams
• Analyze tenders & sales data, creating dashboards, files and templates according to local needs.
• Liaising with Buyers, Procurement/Market Analysts, and Transaction Procurement Specialists to provide contractual and compliance advice
• Monitor price dynamics, ability to identify price discrepancies, communicating effectively with Contracts and Orders colleagues to fix issues.
• Follow up on third party products, check customers consumption and payments, supporting sales on approval processes with procurement and finance departments.
• Provide pre-sales and/or post-sales consulting to benefit Agilent customers in areas such as product/service order fulfilment processes, customer service requests such as end-to-end order status management,
• Work on customer service assignments with broadly defined objectives
  This position is based in our offices in Brussels (Diegem), where partial remote work would be an option (up to 2 days a week).