Senior Category Specialist/Manager (CAT1)

Techconnect.id; Jakarta Pusat; On-site; IDR 600,000,000 - 900,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Techconnect.id in Jakarta, Indonesia seeks a Senior Category Specialist/Manager (CAT1) to lead tendering and contract management, drive cost optimization, mitigate risk, and ensure long-term value creation.

The role requires handling end-to-end tendering, major contracts, and cross-functional collaboration with stakeholders, using strong negotiation and analytical skills to secure favorable outcomes for the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Law, Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in tendering, procurement, commercial, or contract management, incl. at least 3 years in complex contracts.
• Ability to manage full tender and contract lifecycle from request to award and finalization.
• Experience handling major, high-value, complex contracts and resolving contractual issues.
• Excellent analytical, cost-optimization, and negotiation skills.
• Strong knowledge of contract terms, risk allocation, governance, and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to interpret contracts and advise operational stakeholders.
• Facilitate resolution meetings and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders during tendering and post-contract stages.
• Experience in performance-based agreements, contract administration, and continuous improvement.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, influencing, and stakeholder-management; fluent in English and Bahasa Indonesia.

Responsibilities

• Handling and management of tendering process and contract development from receiving tender request until finalization.
• Handling of major complex contracts and solving major complex problems.
• Clarification, evaluation, and recommendation of tenders.
• Delivery of analytical and negotiation skills to achieve the best cost.
• Facilitation and driving of resolution meetings to obtain improvements across tenders and contracts.
• Interpretation of contracts providing advice and support to operational personnel.
• Facilitation of continuous improvement in ongoing contracts.
• Analysis of opportunities and issues to capture improvement.
• Administration management of performance-based agreements.

Skills

Tendering

Contract management

Negotiation

Cost optimization

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Job description

Senior Category Specialist/Manager (CAT1)

• 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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
• Handling of major complex contract and solving of major complex problem.
• Clarification, evaluation, recommendation of tender.
• Delivery of analytical and negotiation skill to achieve the best cost
• Facilitation and driving of resolution meeting to obtain improvements for each issue in tendering process, ongoing contracts and post-contracts.
• Interpretation of contracts providing advice and support to operational personnel in contracts management
• Facilitation of the continuous improvement process of on-going contracts.
• Analysis of opportunities and issue to capture improvement.
• Administration management of performance based agreement

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Law, Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in tendering, procurement, commercial, or contract management, including at least 3 years managing complex contracts.
• Proven ability to manage the full tender and contract-development lifecycle, from request receipt through evaluation, negotiation, award, and contract finalization.
• Strong experience handling major, high-value, and complex contracts and resolving significant commercial or contractual issues.
• Excellent analytical, commercial-evaluation, cost-optimization, and negotiation skills.
• Strong knowledge of contract terms, risk allocation, procurement governance, company procedures, and relevant legal or regulatory requirements.
• Ability to interpret contracts and provide practical commercial and contractual advice to operational stakeholders.
• Proven ability to facilitate resolution meetings and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders during tendering, contract execution, and post-contract stages.
• Experience managing performance-based agreements, contractor performance, contract administration, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills, with proficiency in English and Bahasa Indonesia.