Overview
Innovation starts from the heart. Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader of patient-focused innovations for structural heart disease and critical care monitoring. With millions of patients served in over 100 countries, each team makes a meaningful contribution by improving patient outcomes and discovering lasting solutions for unmet patient needs. Our Manager, Bids, Tenders & Contracts Benelux/France position is a unique career opportunity that could be your next step towards an exciting future.
Location: Belgium or France
Please apply in English!
The main purpose of this role is to provide overall leadership and direction to the Bids, Tenders and Contracts organization with an ability to analyze, develop tender strategies and handle tenders and contracts with customers and commercial partners while ensuring quality and legal compliance.
You will make an impact by:
1. Effectively managing a cross-country team towards a common goal in line with company strategy
2. Being accountable for productivity and quality metrics of staff, and providing regular standard progress reports and quality metrics to management and cross-functional stakeholders
3. Closing partnership with the business; sharing data, leveraging solutions and best practices across BUs
4. Performing Tender identification and assessment
5. Performing Tender submission, outcome analysis and full contract lifecycle management
6. Representing Bids, Tenders and Contracts department on regional projects with medium complexity; Exploring alternative models, system and tools efficiency and continuous process improvements
7. Defining and leading the implementation of key strategies in collaboration with senior leadership
8. Performing routine and ad-hoc data analysis and generating reports
9. Responding to inquiries and requests from stakeholders and resolving issues with some complexity
10. Being responsible for internal/external audits for B&T; cooperation with auditor; development of risk mitigation strategies
11. Other incidental duties as assigned by Leadership
What you’ll need:
12. Bachelor's Degree in a related field and min. 2 - 3 years of related experience in tender and contract management required
13. 2 - 3 years of experience in people management
14. Experience working in a regulated industry highly preferred
15. Fluent English and French required, Dutch highly preferred
16. Proven successful project management skills and expertise in Microsoft Office Suite and related tools and systems
17. Excellent problem-solving, organizational, analytical, and critical thinking skills including high discretion/judgment in decision making
18. Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal relationship skills including negotiating and relationship management skills
19. Knowledge of financial mechanism that relates to offer management
20. Demonstrated ability to manage team and provide coaching and feedback, including responsibility for all employee actions including hire and partnering with HR on all aspects of employee relations
21. Ability to develop and integrate metrics into the projects and operations that clearly demonstrate the value of B&T to the business
22. Strict attention to detail
23. Ability to interact professionally with all organizational levels and proactively escalate issues to appropriate levels of management in the organization, ability to influence
24. Ability to work and excel within a fast paced, dynamic, and constantly changing work environment