Senior Category Specialist/Manager (CAT1)

<h2>Strategic Role</h2><ul><li>Strategic commercial partner to the business, ensuring that tendering and contract management activities drive cost optimization, risk mitigation, operational excellence, and long-term value creation.</li></ul><h2>Key Responsibilities</h2><ul>
<li>Handling and management of tendering process and contract development from receiving of tender request until contract document finalization in timely manner complying with the company standards and procedures</li>
<li>Handling of major complex contract and solving of major complex problem.</li>
<li>Clarification, evaluation, recommendation of tender.</li>
<li>Delivery of analytical and negotiation skill to achieve the best cost</li>
<li>Facilitation and driving of resolution meeting to obtain improvements for each issue in tendering process, ongoing contracts and post-contracts.</li>
<li>Interpretation of contracts providing advice and support to operational personnel in contracts management</li>
<li>Facilitation of the continuous improvement process of on-going contracts.</li>
<li>Analysis of opportunities and issue to capture improvement.</li>
<li>Administration management of performance based agreement</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul>
<li>Bachelor’s degree in Business, Law, Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, or a related field.</li>
<li>Minimum 8 years of experience in tendering, procurement, commercial, or contract management, including at least 3 years managing complex contracts.</li>
<li>Proven ability to manage the full tender and contract-development lifecycle, from request receipt through evaluation, negotiation, award, and contract finalization.</li>
<li>Strong experience handling major, high-value, and complex contracts and resolving significant commercial or contractual issues.</li>
<li>Excellent analytical, commercial-evaluation, cost-optimization, and negotiation skills.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge of contract terms, risk allocation, procurement governance, company procedures, and relevant legal or regulatory requirements.</li>
<li>Ability to interpret contracts and provide practical commercial and contractual advice to operational stakeholders.</li>
<li>Proven ability to facilitate resolution meetings and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders during tendering, contract execution, and post-contract stages.</li>
<li>Experience managing performance-based agreements, contractor performance, contract administration, and continuous-improvement initiatives.</li>
<li>Strong communication, problem-solving, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills, with proficiency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.</li>
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