Senior Category Specialist/Manager (CAT1)

Techconnect; Asia; Presencial; PEN 202.000 - 302.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Techconnect is seeking an experienced procurement and contract management professional to act as a strategic partner in Lima, driving tender processes and contract optimization. You will oversee end-to-end tender development, negotiate complex contracts, and guide operational teams with contractual advice.

The role emphasizes strong analytical, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills, with a focus on cost reduction and risk mitigation in high-value tenders.

Formación

• 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.
• At least 3 years managing complex contracts.
• Strong knowledge of contract terms, risk allocation, and procurement governance.
• Ability to interpret contracts and advise stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Manage tendering processes from request to final contract in line with company standards.
• Handle major complex contracts and resolve significant issues.
• Clarify, evaluate, and recommend tenders; negotiate to achieve best cost.
• Provide analytical and negotiation skills to optimize cost.
• Facilitate resolution meetings and coordinate cross-functional stakeholders.
• Interpret contracts and advise operational personnel in contract management.
• Support continuous improvement of ongoing contracts.
• Analyze opportunities and issues to drive improvements in tenders and post-contracts.
• Administer performance-based agreements.

Conocimientos

Analytical skills

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Cost optimization

Communication

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Law/Engineering/Procurement

Descripción del empleo

Strategic Role

• 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

• 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.