Tenders Specialist - Maidenhead, United Kingdom - Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories

Verified Company

Maidenhead, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

We're empowering smarter medical and economic decision making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life.

Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott's diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

The Opportunity

What You'll Do

Supports the Field based Sales Team, known as the Enterprise Team (Enterprise Account Managers and Sales Executives) daily to help and support their activities to win and retain business.
Responsible for coordinating internal and external procedures, to assist in the Sales Cycle, Tender process, and tender award phase with the Enterprise Team.
Pivotal key driver in the winning of tendered and RFP business working with the Enterprise Team.
Identify, evaluate, and support delivery of highly complex pathology laboratory solutions across core Blood Sciences and up to full panpathology repertoire comprising of both Abbott and thirdparty solutions.
Project manage all tender opportunities starting with the sales cycle, through tender and to post award handover providing more capacity to the sales team for value added sales business.
Provide comprehensive training and support to Enterprise Team on Tender Process and TenderEyes

Required Qualifications

Educated to degree level or equivalent, ideally in a science based or economics/business studies related discipline.
Project management qualifications are desirable but not essential.
Laboratory medicine experience desirable from NHS, private Laboratory or Commercial industry.
Tenders/RFP/Bid writing/Sales Proposal experience desirable TenderEyes/SharePoint experience desirable
Effective communication and leadership skills
Collaborative worker that enjoys completing projects to a high standard within strict deadlines
Excellent organizational and time management skills.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage the tender process alongside the Enterprise Team (Enterprise Account Manager and Sales Executive) including opportunity pipeline
Attend all required external customer engagement with the Enterprise Team
Responsible for taking the Minutes of Meeting to distribute to the team and store on the Tender Portal (TenderEyes)
Support Field visits with the Enterprise Team to help map out current 3rd party solutions where required.
Formulates strategic solutions along with the Enterprise Team for panpathology tenders comprising of multiple third parties which supplement the Abbott offering and meet the customers technical, contractual, and financial specification.
Supports the Enterprise Team to manage pretender activities and provide sales/technical knowledge to help gain insight to be successful in the tender/RFP.
Responsible for searching and identifying all opportunities including frameworks and tenders.
Leading from a tender document and project management perspective on everything from small single Instrument tenders all the way to Multisite, Pan Pathology Tender opportunities. Value from £125K to £500m+ in the most extreme examples once experience and competence allows.
Manage the Abbott relationship with third party suppliers to get the best bid from them for Abbott, including training and support for technical responses.
Supporting the Enterprise Team in the handover of successful bids to the Implementation Team, Contracts team and Customer Experience team to ensure

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.