Associate Tenders & Contracts Specialist (Temporary)

Stryker; Roma; On-site; EUR 28,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Stryker is seeking a Tender & Contracts Specialist in Italy to manage the end-to-end tender process, coordinating with Legal, Sales, Finance, and Product Management. You will oversee identification, qualification, response, and evaluation, ensuring timely and compliant submissions.

You will support pricing, maintain contract databases, and drive improvements in the tender lifecycle, while updating stakeholders on timelines and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, or Law preferred.
• 1–3 years of experience in Tenders & Contracts.
• Experience with tender processes and contract management in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Scout tender opportunities through relevant platforms.
• Coordinate a multidisciplinary team in tender activities to create the commercial offer.
• Pro-actively communicate timelines and status updates with stakeholders.
• Maintain and update contract management systems and databases.
• Review tender requirements and terms and conditions.
• Support pricing specialists with tender information.
• Register tenders in Nexus for direct and indirect tenders.
• Obtain approvals according to the DOA (Delegation of Authority).
• Highlight contract renewals and monitor contract compliance.

Skills

Tender coordination

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Contract management

Legal liaison

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration / Economics / Law

Job description

Job's Mission .

In collaboration with the tender and contracts team, you will administer the entire tender process (identification, qualification, response and evaluation). You will coordinate the tender process, key requirements in collaboration with Legal, Sales, Finance, Product Management and other relevant business functions specific to each tender submission terms and conditions.

For customer contracts, you will provide information to support all sales related legal inquiries. You will work closely with Stryker’s legal counsel and your sales colleagues in effectively managing the contract database. The goal is to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the contract compliance tracking and contract management process.

Position Summary

• Scout tender opportunities (internal/external) through the relevant platforms and websites.


• Provide information to support the Go/No-Go decision process and record consensus.


• Register all identified tenders in Nexus for direct and indirect tenders.


• Review and understand key tender requirements and terms and conditions.


• Prepare information for tender kick-off meetings, pricing meetings and lessons learned meetings when possibile.


• 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.


• Get approvals on the final tender submission according to the DOA (Delegation of Authority) 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, if needed


• Support pricing specialists in price evaluations, providing current and previous tender award info (if not available to the business using local current tool).


• Support the divisions and pricing teams with publicly available competitor information (if available).


• Evaluate the tender outcome (win/loss).


• 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.


• Distribute draft and finalized contracts (internal and external).


• Highlight contract renewals through Nexus (or using other local tools) and the contract compliance tools.


• Maintain the internal contract management system, providing easy access to tenders and contracts.


• Update, maintain and optimize the opportunity tracker and pipeline.


• Nexus compliance


• Accurate visibility of tenders and contracts in your region/country

Education

• Bachelor’s degree level of working and thinking (preferably BusinessAdministration/Economics/Law)is a plus

Experience

• 1-3 years of relevant work experience in Tenders & Contracts

Italy Pay Ranges

• Italy: €27.900 - €46.600 EUR Annual

At Stryker, we believe transparency helps candidates make confident decisions about their next career step. Compensation is an important part of that process and we want to be clear about how pay is determined. The compensation information posted for this role may be presented as a salary range or a fixed amount depending on the role. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for incentive compensation (such as bonus and/or commissions where applicable), along with Stryker’s comprehensive benefits package.

Stryker is a global leader in medical technologies and, together with its customers, is driven to make healthcare better. The company offers innovative products and services in MedSurg, Neurotechnology, Orthopaedics and Spine that help improve patient and healthcare outcomes. Alongside its customers around the world, Stryker impacts more than 150 million patients annually.