Role: Lead Tender & Contract Specialist

Location: Milton Keynes (Hybrid working 3 days home & 2 days office)

 

Looking for a career that matters?   If you’re ready to have an impact in a career that makes a difference, Mölnlycke could be your next step. You’ll be helping to equip medical professionals around the world with solutions to improve outcomes for patients. And you’ll be developing yourself in a global environment with an inspirational culture, with lots of opportunities. All the while building a successful career, with real purpose.

  

The Lead Tender & Contract Specialist is responsible for overseeing end‑to‑end tender and contract delivery, ensuring efficient workflows, strong governance, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement to secure successful and compliant commercial outcomes.

 

Day to day activities are varied and will include:

 

• Lead and coordinate all Tender & Contract (T&C) activities, setting priorities, managing capacity, and driving consistent, high‑performance delivery.


• Own the full end‑to‑end tender lifecycle, from pre‑tender initiation through submission, evaluation, and post‑tender analysis.


• Define and implement tender strategies, frameworks, and best practices to optimise quality, compliance, and win rates.


• Provide strategic insights through KPI tracking, data‑driven analysis, and quarterly performance reporting to leadership.


• Partner closely with Sales, local markets, and the EMEA organisation to support tender execution and cross‑regional alignment.


• Ensure robust pre‑tender management, including stakeholder engagement, tender boards, and informed go/no‑go decisions.


• Oversee contract drafting, review, approval, and lifecycle management, ensuring legal compliance and risk mitigation.


• Monitor tender legislation and audit requirements, ensuring full regulatory compliance and timely audit responses.


• Drive continuous improvement through training, best‑practice sharing, process optimisation, and performance review.

 

What you’ll get

 

• Salary circa £50,000 depending on experience


• Performance related annual bonus


• Bupa healthcare


• Private pension up to 10% company contribution


• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays


• Life assurance and Income protection


• Employee Assistance Programme


• Wellbeing resource hub

 

What you bring

 

• Ideally degree educated in Business, Law, or another relevant discipline.


• Proven experience in tender management, preferably within the life sciences or healthcare sector.


• Strong project management and process development expertise, with the ability to deliver complex tenders on time.


• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across diverse personalities and functions.


• Solid understanding of tender legislation, with strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, SAP, and Salesforce.com. Ability to prioritise workload and effectively manage time

 

Your work-life / Your work-life balance

 

• Hybrid working – 2 days office and 3 days home

 

Our approach to Diversity & Inclusion

 

We strive to have a diverse mix of people from different cultures, ages, geographies and genders, to reflect the world in which we operate and to facilitate innovative thinking across the business.

Please contact Matthew Davitt if you have any questions about the role or wish to discuss opportunities at Mölnlycke further

 

About Mölnlycke

Mölnlycke is a world-leading medical products and solutions company that equips healthcare professionals to achieve the best patient, clinical and economic outcomes.

Our business is organised in the four business areas Wound Care, Operating Room Solutions, Gloves and Antiseptics, where customer centricity, sustainability and digitalisation are at the heart of everything we do.

Mölnlycke employs around 8,700 people. The company headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden and we operate in more than 100 countries worldwide.

Since 2007, the company has been part of Investor AB, an engaged owner of high-quality, global companies which was founded by the Wallenberg family in 1916. For more information, please visit www.molnlycke.com and www.molnlycke.com/careers