Strategic Commercial Bid Specialist

Acorn Strategy; Jakarta Selatan; On-site; IDR 300,000,000 - 420,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Acorn Strategy is seeking a Commercial Specialist to ensure clear commercial commitments before proposals. You will review scopes, build defensible cost models, and identify risks while collaborating with Finance, Operations, PM, and Account teams.

You will coordinate timely submissions, support change requests, and maintain structured commercial records to enable sustainable agency growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Commercial Management, Project Management or related field.
• 5 years of agency-side experience in a commercial, scoping, bid-management or proposal-management role.

Responsibilities

• Read RFPs, tenders and client briefs in full, extracting every deliverable and submission requirement.
• Build defensible cost models against rate cards, documenting assumptions.
• Identify gaps between budgets and true cost of delivery; escalate concerns.
• Interrogate ambiguous scopes, raise clarification questions during tender windows.
• Review terms and NDAs for commercial impact and routing for approvals.
• Coordinate input from senior stakeholders to keep submissions on track.
• Submit approved proposals and resolve issues before deadlines.
• Maintain a library of proposals, costings and commercial records.
• Hand approved scopes to Account Management with clear deliverables and boundaries.
• Support change requests and re-costing with commercial impact.
• Use AI tools to improve speed and quality of scope review and proposals.

Job description

Acorn Strategy is seeking a Commercial Specialist to ensure clear commercial commitments before proposals. You will review scopes, build defensible cost models, and identify risks while collaborating with Finance, Operations, PM, and Account teams.

You will coordinate timely submissions, support change requests, and maintain structured commercial records to enable sustainable agency growth.