Are you ready to take a leading role in transforming tender excellence across the Nordics? Berner MedLab is now looking for a Nordic Tender Manager for a newly created position in a dynamic phase of transformation and growth. In this role, you will have a unique opportunity to shape the future of our tender business across both public and private sectors.

You will step into a key position where you drive strategic alignment, influence the market, and enable strong cross-functional collaboration. As the leader of the Nordic Tender function, you will take ownership of developing and leading tender operations, ensuring they are closely integrated with the business and deliver measurable results.

This is your chance to bring in new ways of working – championing automation, playbooks and decision filters to streamline processes and increase efficiency. You will play a central role in building and professionalizing Berner MedLab’s tender approach in the Nordics, combining strategic vision with hands-on execution. Working closely with a cross-functional team, you will create impact through insight, influence, and leadership, and contribute directly to profitable growth.

Basic Information

• Location: Helsinki (Hitsaajankatu 24)

• Working model: Flexible hybrid model, you can work remotely 2 days per week

• Travel requirement: The role includes occasional travel within the Nordics. The amount of travel will evolve as the role develops, but it is estimated to be approximately quarterly

• Employment type: Full-time, permanent position

• Start date: As agreed, but as soon as possible

In this role, you will

• Shape and influence the market: Build strong relationships with procurement authorities, private healthcare providers, and industry organizations across the Nordics. Influence tenders and frameworks to reflect Berner MedLab’s strengths and support growth. Engage key stakeholders and contribute to policy discussions to help create a favorable market environment.

• Drive strategic alignment: Develop and align tender strategies across Nordic countries and business lines, ensuring a unified approach. Use data-driven decision criteria to prioritize high-impact opportunities. Own tender processes and outcomes, while supporting local Tender Managers with insights and best practices.

• Foster cross-functional collaboration: Act as a connector between commercial, product, service, and regulatory teams to ensure tender readiness. Enable knowledge sharing, lead the Nordic Tender team, and promote accountability and performance. Drive adoption of automation and digital tools to improve efficiency.

• Professionalize and improve: Use market feedback and tender outcomes to continuously improve ways of working. Gather pretender insights to anticipate trends and shape proactive strategies. Develop training materials, playbooks, and tools, and maintain a forward-looking tender pipeline.

• Champion compliance and ethics: Ensure all activities meet Berner’s standards for ethics, compliance, and sustainability. Promote a responsible approach that considers broader social impact.
  

What Berner expects from you

• Strong experience in strategic, tactical, and operational tendering, market access, or public affairs within healthcare, medtech, or related fields, with an understanding of the Nordic market or experience working at a Nordic level

• An entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to develop and implement new approaches in a dynamic environment

• Proven ability to influence both internally and externally, align stakeholders, and shape market conditions (experience in advocacy or policy engagement is a plus)

• Strong analytical and commercial capabilities with a focus on sustainable, profitable growth

• Experience in implementing automation, decision-making frameworks, and digital tools

• Excellent leadership, project management, and communication skills

• A strategic yet hands-on and results-driven approach

• Fluency in English and Finnish, Swedish is considered an advantage

What Berner offers for you

• Berner is a well-established and stable Finnish family-owned company with a long history and a track record of profitable growth across several business areas. Its long-term and responsible approach to business provides employees with a secure and stable working environment.

• The role offers a responsible and versatile position where you will have the opportunity to develop and align ways of working across the Nordics. You will act as a key connector between commercial, product, service, and regulatory teams, ensuring the organization’s readiness for future tenders. The role provides a high level of independence and the opportunity to influence the Nordic market while supporting Berner’s growth ambitions.

• At Berner, values are reflected in everyday actions and interactions. Employees find their work meaningful and are strongly committed to Berner’s values—work, honesty, and people—which guide daily operations. Employees are rewarded for living these values, as well as for new ideas, innovations, and bold experimentation. Berner also invests long-term in leadership development, job satisfaction, and continuous professional growth.

• Employee wellbeing is supported through comprehensive occupational healthcare from the start of employment, including specialist and dental care after six months. In addition, employees receive a sports, culture, and wellbeing benefit (400 € per year), a commuting benefit, and subsidized lunches on working days. Berner also offers opportunities for training and professional development, a shared performance-based bonus model, and an employee discount at the Berner Shop.

• Modern premises in Herttoniemi, along the metro line, provide a pleasant working environment.

• Berner is committed to increasing diversity and promoting equality through its sustainability programme. Everyone is encouraged to join as they are, with an inclusive environment and necessary accommodations ensured. More about Berner employees can be found in career stories on the company website.

Have we got your interest?
We would love to hear from you! Please submit your application via the link as soon as possible or latest by Sunday, May 17, 2026.

The recruitment process is carried out in cooperation with Avila. For more information on the position, please contact Avila's Recruitment Consultant Sini Okkonen, sini.okkonen@avila.fi.

Berner is a growing and internationalizing Finnish family-owned company established in 1883. Its diverse product portfolio is managed through four business areas: Consumer Goods, Healthcare and Laboratories, Industries, and Agricultural Trade. The company’s main customers include the private sector, the public sector, and consumers. Berner’s headquarters, product development, and production facilities are based in Finland, and the company operates subsidiaries in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and the Baltic countries.