Key Responsibilities
1. Tender, Quotation & Commercial Preparation
- Manage tender preparation for engineering, construction, maintenance, and related service packages.
- Review invite-to-tender documents, specifications, drawings, scope of work, terms, and submission requirements.
- Prepare tender clarifications, technical queries, commercial proposals, and quotation documents.
- Coordinate with internal departments to obtain costing, manpower plans, equipment requirements, schedules, and technical inputs.
- Ensure tender submissions are accurate, competitive, complete, and submitted on time.
- Follow up with customers after submission and support tender negotiations or clarification meetings.
2. Business Development & Customer Management
- Identify and develop new business leads from existing and new industries.
- Contact, arrange meetings, and build relationships with potential customers.
- Maintain good business relationships with existing customers and follow up on future opportunities.
- Understand customer requirements and propose suitable engineering, construction, or maintenance solutions.
- Support senior management in customer engagement, business presentations, and commercial discussions.
3. New Market & Business Expansion
- Explore opportunities beyond the company’s current business areas, including semiconductor, data center, power, infrastructure, and other growth sectors.
- Study possible new scopes, tender packages, and service opportunities that the company can participate in.
- Identify gaps in internal capability and propose ways to bridge them through internal resource planning, collaboration, subcontracting, or external partnerships.
- Work with internal teams and external parties to develop new service offerings or business models.
- Support strategic planning for business expansion and diversification.
4. Internal Coordination & Execution Support
- Align internal resources such as manpower, engineering capability, project teams, procurement, subcontractors, and management support.
- Coordinate with operations teams to assess project feasibility, risks, schedule, costing, and execution requirements.
- Support handover from tender stage to project execution stage when jobs are awarded.
- Monitor business opportunities and update senior management on progress, risks, and required decisions.
5. Sales Target & Performance Management
- Work towards achieving new sales, new customers, and new business opportunities.
- Track leads, tender status, quotation submissions, customer follow-ups, and award outcomes.
- Prepare regular reports for senior management on business development activities and tender pipeline.
- Support company growth targets through proactive lead generation and commercial follow-up.
Requirements:
Experience
- Relevant experience in engineering, construction, maintenance, industrial services, or related sectors.
- Experience in tender preparation, quotation making, commercial proposal preparation, or project costing.
- Experience dealing with customers, suppliers, subcontractors, or project stakeholders.
- Prior exposure to plant maintenance, construction projects, industrial facilities, semiconductor, data center, power, or infrastructure sectors will be an advantage.
Skills & Competencies
- Strong ability to read and understand tender documents, scope of work, and commercial requirements.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to prepare clear quotations, proposals, clarification replies, and management updates.
- Good business sense with ability to identify customer needs and commercial opportunities.
- Able to coordinate across internal departments and external partners.
- Independent, proactive, and comfortable working in a dynamic environment.
- Strong follow-up discipline and ownership of assigned tasks.
- Able to work directly with senior management and support strategic business decisions.
Preferred Candidate Profile
- Must be at least 3 years of relevant experience to qualify for Executive level.
- Candidate holding over 6 years of relevant experience may qualify for placement at the Manager position.
- Experiences in engineering, construction, maintenance, or industrial services.
- Must be stable employment history; no frequent job changes.
- Self-starter with strong drive to find new opportunities and close follow-up actions.
- Commercially aware and willing to learn new industries or technical scopes.
- Comfortable meeting customers and representing the company professionally.
- Able to balance tender preparation, customer engagement, and internal coordination.
- Practical, resourceful, and able to work with limited guidance.
- Interested in business growth, market expansion, and long-term company development.