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About the Role

The Senior Tender & Contract Specialist role at Medtronic involves coordinating tender submissions, contract negotiations, and managing the customer supply contract lifecycle for public and private healthcare sectors in ANZ. You will interact directly with external stakeholders, representing Medtronic in tender and contract management.

Responsibilities

• Manage the identification, preparation, coordination, and submission of all tender responses.
• Provide commercial guidance regarding customer procurement activities to support bid/no bid decisions.
• Manage the coordination and consolidation of all clarification and negotiation requests.
• Attend customer meetings as required.
• Manage the coordination and outcome of the post tender process for respective regions, including following up unsuccessful tenders.
• Package tender documents for timely submission to tender boards in both hard and soft formats.
• Create and maintain a central database of company information needed for tender submissions.
• Provide visibility, guidance, and communication to Sales, Marketing, and other functions involved in a tender submission.
• Develop and maintain a continuous communication channel with Sales, Marketing, and customer procurement departments.
• Operate as a backup for other team members in case of absences.
• Attend customer meetings and business review meetings, and facilitate them with internal teams.
• Preparation, co-ordination and review of all contract and customer agreements, extensions and variations.
• Liaise with legal department, functions & internal stakeholders for any terms and conditions in conflict with Medtronic standard terms and conditions.
• Execute variations accurately and within agreed upon timeframes.
• Provide pro-active support to Sales and Marketing through contract activity reports, expiration notifications, and other contract information.
• Maintain the contract log in to our contracts repository, ensuring records are complete and up to date.
• Maintain and update internal trackers on a regular basis.
• Ensure that all quality requirements and objectives are achieved.
• Participate in projects as required, to improve systems and processes for tender and contract management activities, reviews and maintenance.
• Continuous education on changing market conditions and customer requirements.
• Exhibit behaviours aligned to the Medtronic Mindset standards.
• Observe health & safety policies & procedures and take all reasonable care that actions or omissions do not impact on the health & safety of others.
• Work within and actively promote the Medtronic mission, corporate strategies, policies, procedures and Business Conduct Standards.

Requirements

• Degree in Business Administration, Law, or any contract-related discipline.
• Proficient in MS Office applications, especially Word and Excel.
• Highly effective interpersonal skills with the ability to build credible working relationships with customers and employees.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong analytical skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Proven problem solving and decision-making skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Strong commercial acumen.
• Strategic Agility.
• Effective organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to multi task and manage complexity.

Skills

• Vendavo application knowledge and experience (Preferred).
• Hands-on experience with CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) software preferred.

Location

• ANZ

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 3-5+ years in a “Tender Specialist” or “Tenders & Contracts Specialist/Analyst” role within a medical or highly regulated industry preferred.

Education Level

• Degree in Business Administration, Law, or any contract-related discipline.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package.
• Short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

About the Company

• Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life.
• Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first — developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year.
• We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people.
• We change lives.
• Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people.
• Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives.
• We build extraordinary solutions as one team.
• With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work.
• Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA.
• Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way.
• And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough.
• Experiences that put people first.
• Respect for people is the hallmark of our humanity.
• It fuels our team to positively impact even a single life.
• And it means we put our people first at Medtronic as well, creating a culture of belonging and always pushing to get you the career-building resources you need.
• Life-transforming technologies.
• No matter your role, you contribute to technologies that transform lives.
• What we build empowers patients to live life on their terms.
• Better outcomes for our world.
• Here, it’s about more than the bottom line.
• Our Mission to improve human welfare drives us.
• We advance healthcare, society, and equity with every design, inside and outside our walls.
• Insight-driven care.
• Fresh viewpoints.
• Cutting-edge AI, data, and automation.
• You're shaping the future of healthcare technology and defining the next generation of breakthroughs in care.

Equal Opportunity

• It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
• In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
• For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.
• This employer participates in the federal E-Verify program to confirm the identity and employment authorization of all newly hired employees.