Senior Contracts & GPO Manager

Senior Contracts Manager

Who We Are

Essity is a global leader in health and hygiene headquartered in Stockholm Sweden with a North American headquarters located in Philadelphia PA. We are a multi-billion-dollar company with a purpose to break barriers to well-being for the benefit of consumers patients care givers and customers across the globe. We do this through innovations in our Professional Hygiene Consumer

Goods and Health & Medical business units that provide hygiene and health solutions to over a billion people every day worldwide.

Working at Essity is more than a career it is where you will play your part in a better future to improve well-being for people and have opportunities to drive positive change for society and the environment. As an employee at Essity you will belong to a team where you feel valued are safe supported to grow and challenged to generate business results in a friendly and open atmosphere.

About the Role

The Contract & GPO Manager is responsible for leading and optimizing the organizations contracting and GPO account execution to drive compliant revenue growth margin performance and customer access. This role provides strategic and operational leadership across commercial contracts GPO relationships and government accounts while managing and developing a high performing team.

The role has direct responsibility for 4 Contract Support Specialists and 3 GPO Managers ensuring strong cross functional alignment with Sales Marketing Pricing Finance and Legal.

Were looking for people who embody our values arent afraid to challenge innovate experiment and move at a fast pace. Were always looking for ways to improve our products and ourselves. If this is you wed love to talk.

What You Will Do

Leadership & People Management

• Lead coach and develop a team of 7 direct reports fostering accountability capability development and continuous improvement.
• Set clear performance objectives monitor execution and ensure workload prioritization aligns with commercial strategy.
• Build a collaborative serviceoriented culture that enables Sales and Key Account teams to win while maintaining compliance and margin discipline.

Contracting & Commercial Excellence

• Own the endtoend contract lifecycle including contract review approval implementation maintenance and renewal.
• Ensure contract terms pricing rebates and eligibility are executed accurately and consistently across systems and customers.
• Partner with Legal Pricing and Finance to mitigate risk ensure compliance and protect profitability.
• Drive standardization simplification and process efficiency across contracting workflows.

GPO Strategy & Execution

• Lead the organizations GPO strategy and execution ensuring alignment with commercial priorities and therapy area growth strategies.
• Manage relationships with national and regional GPOs overseeing contract compliance performance tracking and opportunity identification.
• Support GPO Managers in negotiations contract implementation and performance optimization.
• Translate GPO agreements into actionable field guidance and ensure effective downstream execution.

CrossFunctional Partnership

• Serve as the central commercial interface between Sales Marketing Pricing Finance Legal and IT for all contract and GPOrelated matters.
• Enable Sales and Strategic Accounts with clear contract guidance tools and training.
• Support deal structuring and complex negotiations while balancing growth risk and margin objectives.

Who You Are

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree preferred
• 710 years of experience in contracts GPO management pricing or commercial operations (healthcare/medtech preferred)
• Proven people leadership experience
• Strong understanding of GPO and IDN contracting environments
• High attention to detail with strong executive communication skills

What We Can Offer You

At Essity we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

Compensation and Benefits:

Expected Compensation

Competitive annual salary annual incentive bonus benefits

Pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors such as knowledge skills and experience.

Along with competitive pay you will be eligible for the following benefits:

• United Healthcare PPO / EyeMed Vision Insurance / Delta Dental Insurance
• Wellness program provided through Rally
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) with employer match and annual employer base contribution
• Company paid Basic Life AD&D short-term and long-term disability insurance
• PTO offering with Paid Holidays
• Scholarship program for children of Essity employees.

Additional Information

The Company is committed to equalemployment opportunity and providingreasonable accommodations to qualifiedcandidates and employees pursuant toapplicable law. We value and encouragediversity and solicit applications from allqualified applicants without regard to racecolor gender sex age religion creednational origin ancestry citizenship maritalstatus sexual orientation physical or mentaldisability medical condition military andveteran status gender identity or expressiongenetic information or any othercharacteristic protected by federal state orlocal law.

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Together we are improving lives every day

Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier more hygienic and safer place. With impactful innovations coupled with sustainable solutions we strive to reach more people every year with the necessary and essential solutions for well-being.

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