Quotes & Tenders Supervisor (Nordics)

Boston Scientific; Helsingborgs kommun; Hybrid; SEK 700,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Boston Scientific in Helsingborg is seeking a Supervisor to lead a Quotes & Tender team, delivering Nordic bids and offers in collaboration with the sales team. The role involves ensuring compliance, process improvements, and strong team performance in a fast-paced environment.

You will coach, recruit, and develop the team, while coordinating with finance, legal, and procurement to meet deadlines and uphold governance standards.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Nordic procurement and tendering processes.
• Experience in commercial, bids, or operational roles.
• Familiarity with procurement frameworks and compliance in the Nordics.
• Experience working cross-functionally with internal stakeholders.
• Supervisory or team leadership experience preferred.
• High level of commercial awareness and attention to detail.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Resilience in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong leadership and people management capability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Degree or equivalent professional experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team to achieve operational and commercial objectives.
• Oversee daily workflow, ensuring tasks are prioritised and delivered efficiently.
• Ensure adherence to company policies, regulatory requirements, and quality standards.
• Monitor team performance against KPIs and service level agreements.
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements.
• Manage escalations, resolving issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Work closely with the sales teams to anticipate customer needs within compliance and quality guidelines.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across sales, finance, legal, and procurement.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing development of team members.
• Foster a high-performance, accountable, and collaborative team culture.
• Support successful implementation of European Quotes & Tender initiatives in the Nordic region.
• Show proactive interest in industry trends and their impact on bid strategy and execution.
• Oversee end-to-end tendering and quotation processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and competitiveness.
• Ensure submissions meet Nordic procurement regulations, contractual obligations, and governance standards.
• Review and validate pricing, cost models, and commercial proposals prior to submission.
• Manage tender timelines, ensuring all deadlines are consistently met.
• Identify risks, compliance gaps, and commercial opportunities within bids.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to ensure alignment on bid strategy and execution.

Job description

About the role:

The Supervisor is responsible for leading and overseeing the day-to-day operations of the team, ensuring the effective delivery of business objectives in line with organisational standards. This role plays a key part in managing team performance, driving operational excellence, and ensuring high-quality outputs across procurement and tendering activities.

In this key position, you will take responsibility for a highly motivated team of Quotes & Tender experts. Together with the sales team, you will be responsible for creating and managing offers, contracts, and tenders for our Nordic customers. You will not only optimise processes but, most importantly, lead a team that actively shapes the future of Boston Scientific.

This full-time permanent position is to be based from our office in Helsingborg and offers weekly hybrid working (three days in the office, two days remote).

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead, coach and develop a team to achieve operational and commercial objectives.
• Oversee daily workflow, ensuring tasks are prioritised and delivered efficiently.
• Ensure adherence to company policies, regulatory requirements, and quality standards.
• Monitor team performance against agreed KPIs and service level agreements.
• Proactively identify and implement process improvements.
• Manage escalations, resolving issues in a timely and professional manner.
• Work closely with the sales teams to anticipate customer needs and implement them in a best possible way, all while ensuring adherence to internal compliance and quality guidelines.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across sales, finance, legal, and procurement.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing development of team members.
• Foster a high-performance, accountable, and collaborative team culture.
• Support successful implementation of European Quotes & Tender initiatives in the Nordic region.
• Show proactive interest in general industry trends and their impact on our local and regional sales activities, especially in offer preparation, contract management, and tender processes.
• Oversee the end-to-end tendering and quotation processes, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and competitiveness.
• Ensure all submissions meet Nordic procurement regulations, contractual obligations, and governance standards.
• Review and validate pricing, cost models, and commercial proposals prior to submission.
• Manage tender timelines, ensuring all deadlines are consistently met.
• Identify risks, compliance gaps, and commercial opportunities within bids.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to ensure alignment on bid strategy and execution.

What we are looking for in you:

• Strong knowledge of procurement and tendering processes within the Nordic environment.
• Experience working in a commercial, bids, or operational environment.
• Familiarity with procurement frameworks and compliance requirements in the Nordics.
• Experience working cross-functionally with internal stakeholders.
• Proven experience in a supervisory or team leadership role preferred.
• High level of commercial awareness and attention to detail.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
• Resilience and can work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong leadership and people management capability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Degree or equivalent professional experience preferred.

What we can offer to you:

• Full-time position.
• Hybrid working model.
• Flexibility required to meet tender submission deadlines.