About the Role
The Tender Specialist manages tender and contract processes end-to-end, overseeing bid processes from opportunity identification through to contract implementation across Public and Private Hospital sectors. This role is crucial for protecting revenue, improving tender win rates, and ensuring contract compliance through effective execution, pricing support, and strong cross-functional collaboration. It also contributes to revenue retention and growth by supporting competitive tender submissions aligned with business objectives. This is a fixed-term maternity leave backfill role supporting continuity of tender and contract management activities within the ANZ Commercial CoE.
Responsibilities
- Manage the end-to-end tender lifecycle (planning, submission, and implementation)
- Coordinate tender responses and stakeholder contributions
- Maintain tender tools, databases, calendar, and reporting outputs
- Maintain and develop tender response library and knowledge repository
- Support delivery of tender outcomes that contribute to revenue retention and growth targets
- Maintain hospital agreements and pricing governance
- Provide commercial and pricing analysis to inform and influence decision-making
- Monitor competitor activity and pricing trends to inform tender strategy
- Track, analyse, and report on contract performance (e.g. win rates, compliance, pricing performance)
- Identify trends and actions to improve tender outcomes and contract performance
- Collaborate with Sales, Corporate Accounts, Marketing, Legal, Pricing, and Finance
- Support engagement with customers and procurement stakeholders where required
- Align tender activities with broader commercial strategies and priorities
Requirements
- Tertiary qualification in relevant field
- Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to develop relationships with internal and external customers
- Good analytical and documentation skills (Process orientated)
- High attention to detail and accurate with written correspondence
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of tender and contract management practices
- Computer proficiency in MS Office, specifically expert MS Excel
- Include a cover letter addressing it to Talent Acquisition Lead ANZ
Skills
- MS Office
- MS Excel
- Analytical skills
- Documentation skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Written communication skills
- Verbal communication skills
- Tender management practices
- Contract management practices
Work Type
- Fixed-term
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Tertiary qualification
About the Company
- Smith and Nephew develops technology to break health barriers, empowering people from farmworkers to grandparents to accept limitless possibilities.
- Our purpose: Life Unlimited.
