Tender & Contracts Co-ordinator

Hatfield, England, United Kingdom

4/25/2025

Viatris UK Healthcare

At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via:

Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;

Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and

Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services.

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

As a Tender and Contracts Manager, you will play a pivotal role in managing all UK Hospital Generic and branded contracts and tenders from initiation to submission. This includes coordinating and managing tender submissions, conducting thorough award analysis, ensuring accurate contract initiation with wholesale distributors, and diligently monitoring stock levels. You will also contribute to the development of pricing strategies for hospital contracts and provide essential support to the Portfolio Business Manager.

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the Tender & Contracts Co-ordinator role will make an impact:

• End-to-End Tender & Contract Management: Take full ownership of the UK hospital tendering and contracts process for the Viatris UK business, driving it from initial stages through to successful completion.
• Market & Competitive Analysis: Conduct in-depth analysis of hospital tender results, translating data into actionable intelligence on competitor activity and market pricing strategies.
• Contract Compliance & Issue Resolution: Proactively monitor contract performance against agreed volumes, swiftly identifying and resolving any internal or external challenges, and collaborating effectively with tendering authorities to maintain forecast accuracy.
• Lifecycle Management (LCM): Expertly manage the LCM of all hospital contract-related submissions, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Forecasting & Strategic Input: Collate, review, and critically assess forecasts for hospital contracted lines, providing informed recommendations for changes and strategic actions to optimise outcomes.
• Reporting & Communication: Prepare and deliver concise, insightful reports on activities, progress, and key issues for monthly team meetings and Board Packs, ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.
• Financial Accuracy & Validation: Validate monthly hospital reclaims files from wholesale and homecare with meticulous attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and timely payment processing.
• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Cultivate and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with core wholesale distributors, with a focus on ensuring continuity of supply and service.
• Tasks, Projects & Initiatives: Contribute to and lead other key accountabilities and strategic projects as defined by the Portfolio Business Manager, demonstrating flexibility and a proactive approach.
  
  
  

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

• Bachelor’s degree (Preferred)
• ABPI Medical Representative (Preferred)
• Experience of the pharmaceutical industry, generics preferred e.g knowledge of NHS, market place, funding of drugs.
• Ability to plan strategically and logically.
• Ability and experience in planning, preparation, and presentation.
• High-level numeric skills and demonstrates initiative.
• Articulate, able to communicate at all levels of an organisation.
• Creative Thinking - Able to demonstrate the ability to come up with new and innovative ways of looking at problems
• Strong interpersonal skills required as well as excellent communication and presentation skills.
  
  
  

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Benefits At Viatris

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. Some of our benefits include the following on top of a competitive salary:

What we offer:

• Top Employer Accreditation, demonstrating that we provide excellent people policies and practices
• Competitive compensation package inclusive of annual discretionary bonus and stock options*
• Focus on career progression with growth and development opportunities
• Hybrid work model *
• Emphasis on Health and Wellness programmes
• 100% paid medical insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
• Life cover
• Excellent employer-matched pension scheme with Viatris contributing up to 11%
• 2 paid volunteer days per year
  
  
  

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others.

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.