Commercial Proposals Business Partner

haemonetics; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Haemonetics is seeking a Commercial Proposals Business Partner to lead end-to-end responses for RFPs, RFIs, and tenders. You will design a centralized content library, coordinate cross-functional teams, ensure regulatory and brand alignment, and drive governance and efficiency across proposal workflows.

This role requires strong project-management discipline, attention to risk, and the ability to manage timelines, ownership, and dependencies while delivering high-quality proposals within tight

Qualifications

• End-to-end proposal management experience is required.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage timelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle for commercial proposals, RFPs, RFIs, and tenders.
• Coordinate cross-functional response teams with clear timelines and owners.
• Monitor tender portals and identify opportunities to ensure timely engagement.
• Provide proactive status updates on progress, risks, and decisions.

Skills

Proposal management

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Job description

We are constantly looking to add to our core talent. If you are seeking a career that is challenging and rewarding, a work environment that is diverse and dynamic, look no further - Haemonetics is your employer of choice.

Job Details

The Commercial Proposals Business Partner is responsible for leading Haemonetics' end-to-end commercial proposal, RFP, RFI, and tender response capability, with a focus on building a scalable, compliant, and technology-enabled response model. This role will manage complex proposal and tender responses while designing and maintaining a centralized commercial proposal content library/repository, ensuring responses are accurate, current, legally approved, and aligned with Haemonetics' commercial, regulatory, compliance, and brand standards. The position will partner closely with Sales, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Product, Finance, Pricing, Quality, Regulatory, and other functional stakeholders to streamline response processes, improve governance, reduce cycle time, and drive automation across proposal intake, content reuse, approvals, and submission workflows. While not titled as a project management role, the position requires strong project-management discipline, including the ability to establish timelines, coordinate deliverables, drive accountability, ensure completeness, manage risks and dependencies, and deliver high-quality responses within required timeframes.

Responsibilities/Essential Duties

Commercial Proposal Intake, Planning & Execution:

• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle for commercial proposals, RFPs, RFIs, and tenders, including intake, qualification, requirements review, workback planning, stakeholder assignment, content development, approval coordination, submission, and post-submission follow-up.
• Coordinate cross-functional response teams by establishing clear timelines, owners, deliverables, review gates, escalation paths, and decision points to ensure complete, high-quality, on-time submissions.
• Monitor customer, GPO, IDN, health system, and public tender portals to identify opportunities, confirm submission requirements, assess deadlines, and initiate timely engagement with the appropriate commercial and functional teams.
• Provide proactive status updates on progress, risks, dependencies, decisions, and next steps to stakeholders and leadership to maintain transparency, alignment, and execution discipline throughout the proposal process.

Proposal Content Library & Knowledge Management:

• Design, implement, and continuously improve a centralized commercial proposal content library, including approved response language, standard clauses, product information, compliance statements, supporting documentation, ownership assignments, and refresh cadences.
• Establish content governance processes to ensure repository materials remain accurate, current, searchable, version-controlled, legally reviewed where required, and aligned to approved Haemonetics messaging and business standards.
• Partner with subject matter experts to develop, update, approve, and maintain standard responses and supporting documentation for recurring proposal, RFP, RFI, and tender requirements.

Compliance, Legal & Risk Review:

• Establish and manage review processes to ensure proposal responses are accurate, compliant with applicable requirements, legally approved where needed, and aligned to Haemonetics' risk standards.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, Regulatory, Quality, Product, Finance, Pricing, Sales, and Marketing to review response language, exceptions, representations, commitments, and supporting documentation before submission.
• Evaluate commercial, contractual, compliance, legal, and operational risks within proposal requirements and coordinate appropriate review, escalation, mitigation, and documentation with internal subject matter experts.
• Research applicable public tender requirements, customer procurement terms, and industry expectations to anticipate risks, support compliant responses, and improve proposal readiness.

Process Optimization, Automation & Reporting:

• Identify, recommend, and implement automation opportunities to improve proposal intake, content retrieval, approval routing, version control, reporting, and response development efficiency.
• Develop standardized playbooks, templates, intake criteria, metrics, dashboards, and reporting routines to improve scalability, visibility, accountability, and consistency across Haemonetics' commercial proposal response model.
• Maintain current knowledge of Haemonetics' products, services, standards, commercial models, customer requirements, industry trends, and applicable tender or procurement expectations to improve response quality and readiness.
• Lead or support related commercial operations, process improvement, and enablement initiatives that advance proposal response effectiveness, governance, and scalability.

Skill Sets

• Strong response management skills, including planning, timeline management, risk