Bilingual Tenders and Contracts Specialist

**Empowering careers at ARJO**:
**At Arjo, we know what moves us. We go above and beyond for people facing mobility challenges. We take every opportunity to work and grow as one team and take pride in sharing our knowledge and experience. Does that sound like something that moves you too?**

**This could be your chance to initiate an exciting and rewarding career in a healthcare company that empowers movement for people with mobility challenges.**

Location: Mississauga, ON

Job type: Full Time, Permanent

**The impact you will have**:
**The Bilingual Tenders and Contracts Specialist will function as an integral part of the Sales Operations team to provide central coordination of the company’s sales tendering business process. Day to day activities will vary as demanded by the market, customer needs and team assignments.**:
**As the Bilingual **Tenders and Contracts Specialist**, you will**:

- **Monitor all tender websites to identify Requests for Proposals (RFP), Requests for Quote(RFQ), Requests for Information (RFI) and work with sales, marketing and project management to ensure timely submission of completed proposals.**
- **Communicate and establish timelines and set kickoff meetings to begin tender review and assignment of tender tasks.**
- **Prepare submissions for tenders by working with the sales and marketing teams to ensure complete and accurate submissions of all tender responses, gathering all the required documentation, literature, pricing, signatures and certificates and meeting deadlines for each submission.**
- **Check for amendments and addendums for all relative tenders and forward accordingly.**
- **Physical assembly and/or electronic uploads of submissions.**
- **Courier bid packages as proposed by sales with management signoff to meet customer deadlines.**
- **Track outcomes of sales tenders and distribute to Sales Managers / Marketing Director.**
- Establish and maintain communication of contract, pricing and product including updates to Syspro & M3 with appropriate company departments and personnel. Add appropriate customers to individual and specific buying groups as required.

**The skills you will need**:

- Post-secondary education and related experience are required.
- Bilingual (French/English).
- Advanced skills with Microsoft Excel.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to prioritize and problem solve.
- Must be detail orientated.
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills.

**What we will offer in return**:
You will support our vision to be the most trusted partner in driving healthier outcomes for people facing mobility challenges. In return, we recognize and value our global employees. We provide full support, training and opportunities for professional development, along with working in a highly engaged and vibrant workplace - our most recent employee engagement survey score was 8.2/10 In addition, you will be eligible for:

- Full benefit coverage - medical, dental, vision, life insurance
- Pension plan with company contribution and match
- Company paid vehicle
- Incentive program
- Flexible work
- Tuition Reimbursement Program
- December 24 and your birthday as extra paid days off
- Volunteer Time Off Program
- Social events

**Why diversity matters to us**:
We believe in the power of diversity. We strongly encourage applicants from all parts of society, which means building a more diverse, equitable, inclusive and engaging environment - not only in the workplace, but also within the communities that we serve, work in and live in. We value the uniqueness of all our people.

Great discoveries happen when people from a diverse set of backgrounds come together. The people at our company support one another. At Arjo Canada Inc. we are committed to implementing, maintaining and enhancing accessibility with respect to employment and the use of all Arjo goods, services, programs and facilities in a timely manner for all persons with disabilities in a manner that:

- Respects their dignity and independence;
- Ensures reasonable efforts are made to provide an opportunity equal to that given to others; and
- Provides opportunities for persons with disabilities to benefit from the same services, in the same place, and in a similar way to others, to the greatest extent possible
- Providing an environment where we empower and work as one team

Arjo Canada is proud to be an Employer Partner with the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion (CCDI) which provides us with a number of benefits that will support us on our diversity and inclusion journey.

**About Arjo**:
**We believe that empowering movement within healthcare environments is essential to quality care. Our products and solutions are designed to promote a safe and dignified experience through patient handling, medical beds, personal hygiene, disinfection, diagnostics, and the prevention of pressure injuries and venous thromboembolism. With over 6000 people worldwide and 60 years caring fo