Strategic Proposals Lead (RFP/RFI/Tender)

Haemonetics; Colorado; On-site; USD 90,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Haemonetics is seeking a Commercial Proposals Business Partner to lead end-to-end proposals, RFPs, RFIs, and tenders. You will design a centralized content library, drive governance, and collaborate with Sales, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Product, Finance, Pricing, Quality, Regulatory, and other teams to ensure compliant, timely responses.

The role emphasizes project management discipline, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement of proposal processes to scale and optimize performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience required, including experience in complex tender handling.
• 5–7 years professional experience leading complex cross-functional processes and proposal operations.
• 3–5 years experience in healthcare, life sciences, or public tender environments preferred.
• Experience designing or administering proposal content libraries, knowledge repositories, or workflow tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle for commercial proposals, RFPs, RFIs, and tenders, including intake, qualification, requirements review, workback planning, content development, approval coordination, submission, and post-submission follow-up.
• Coordinate cross-functional response teams by establishing 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.
• 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.

Skills

Proposal management

Cross-functional leadership

Timeline management

Risk tracking

Written communication

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

SharePoint

Teams

CRM

Automation tools

Job description

Haemonetics is seeking a Commercial Proposals Business Partner to lead end-to-end proposals, RFPs, RFIs, and tenders. You will design a centralized content library, drive governance, and collaborate with Sales, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Product, Finance, Pricing, Quality, Regulatory, and other teams to ensure compliant, timely responses.

The role emphasizes project management discipline, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement of proposal processes to scale and optimize performance.