Shipbuilding Commercial Coordinator

Kuok Group Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Kuok Group Singapore is seeking a commercially minded professional to support the Commercial Newbuild team in shipbuilding. Based in Great World City, you will coordinate tender activities, maintain records and help implement improved processes across engineering, contracts, procurement and finance.

The role offers exposure to live tenders, customer engagements and project commercial matters, with growing independence as you develop an understanding of maritime project economics.

Qualifications

• Degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Maritime Studies, Engineering or a related discipline.
• Organised and detail-oriented, with the discipline to follow through on multiple actions and deadlines.
• Comfortable with numbers and proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and Word; interest in process improvement and structured ways of working is a strong advantage.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the confidence to coordinate across different functions.
• A problem-solving mindset: able to question inefficient ways of working and propose practical improvements.
• An interest in developing commercial understanding of the maritime, shipbuilding or offshore industry

Responsibilities

• Support tender and project commercial activities by coordinating inputs, managing deadlines and following up on outstanding actions.
• Prepare and maintain commercial records, trackers, clarification lists, correspondence and supporting documents.
• Support documentation relating to contractual milestones, payment requests, guarantees and other commercial deliverables, with appropriate review and approvals.
• Prepare meeting agendas, minutes, action logs and follow-up communications; support customer visits, presentations and commercial events when required.
• Maintain accurate customer, opportunity and project-commercial information for internal reporting and follow-up.
• Compile and analyse commercial data such as tender pipelines, project costs, margins, variation status and key exposures for review by senior colleagues.
• Prepare concise management updates, dashboards, presentations and customer-specific materials.
• Conduct targeted market, customer and competitor research to support business development and commercial decisions.
• Develop and maintain practical templates, checklists, reporting structures and centralised trackers to improve consistency and reduce rework.
• Review recurring commercial workflows to identify duplicated, unclear or low-value steps that can be eliminated, simplified or standardised, and agree improvements with the relevant teams.
• Document agreed workflows, assess improvements in consistency, timeliness and accuracy, and support adoption across the team and interfacing functions while observing company data-security and approval requirements

Skills

Commercial coordination

Data analysis

Documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business

Others in Finance or Marketing

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Kuok Group Singapore is seeking a commercially minded professional to support the Commercial Newbuild team in shipbuilding. Based in Great World City, you will coordinate tender activities, maintain records and help implement improved processes across engineering, contracts, procurement and finance.

The role offers exposure to live tenders, customer engagements and project commercial matters, with growing independence as you develop an understanding of maritime project economics.