Tenders and Contracts Specialist

at  Stryker Corporation

WHY FINANCE AT STRYKER?

Are you looking for a profitable and growing company with a great culture and reputation? Stryker was recently named one of the Best Workplace in the WORLD by Fortune! Here, you will have many opportunities to learn and grow as we offer development opportunities unique for each employees needs including training, certifications, mentorship, leadership programs, tuition reimbursement, one-on-one coaching and more!

POSITION SUMMARY

• Scout tender opportunities (internal/external) through the relevant platforms and websites.
• Manage the Go/No-Go decision process with relevant stakeholders, and record consensus.
• Register all identified tenders in Nexus for direct and indirect tenders.
• Review and understand key tender requirements and terms and conditions.
• Initiate and lead tender kick-off meetings, pricing meetings and lessons learned meetings.
• Create tender action plans with gant chart (tasks, docs, RACI and deadlines).
• Co-ordinate a multidisciplinary team in tender activities to create the commercial offer.
• Review total tender submission and get approvals according to the DOA approval matrix..
• Pro-actively communicate timelines and status updates with all stakeholders.
• Create teams channels for tenders-where gant chart tracker and other docs can be uploaded
• Support pricing specialists in price evaluations, providing current and previous tender award info.
• Support the divisions and pricing teams with publicly available competitor information.
• Evaluate the tender outcome (win/loss). Provide an award analysis to the business.
• Continuously evaluate the tender process and propose improvements.
• Communicate customer feedback on Stryker’s performance on tenders and contracts to the business as part of lessons learned.
• Manage and continuously update the COE content library for your region/country.
• Maintain the Tender forecast and pipeline for senior management.
• Manage the distribution of draft and finalized contracts (internal and external).
• Manage contract renewals through Nexus, and the contract compliance tools.
• Maintain and develop the internal contract management system, providing easy access to all proposals and contracts.
• Contract compliance tracking of sales and volume performance against customer commitments.
• Update, maintain and optimize the opportunity tracker and pipeline.
• Together with sales, gather publicly available market information on competitor contracts.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 6 years of relevant work experience in Tenders & Contracts
• Bachelor’s degree level of working and thinking (preferably Business Administration/Economics/Law)
• Good knowledge of MS Office (Word, PPT & Excel)
• Very good knowledge of Oracle software and PowerBi.
• The ability to multi-task and juggle multiple projects simultaneously
• A high level of discipline and be able to meet strict deadlines
• To be a structured and organizational planner
• To be articulate, numerical, process oriented
• To be detailed and results driven
• To be a diplomatic team player focused on hitting deadlines in a high pressure environment
• To be a strong communicator with strong writing/bid text authoring skills

Please refer the Job description for details