CONTRACT ADVISOR

Main Responsibilities

Contract Advisory and Lifecycle Management

• Serve as the Company’s specialist focal point within SCM for contract advisory and contract lifecycle management matters.
• Provide advice to SCM, Management, contract owners, and end-user departments on contract structure, contracting approach, scope clarity, deliverables, obligations, commercial terms, timelines, and contract administration requirements.
• Support the full contract lifecycle, including contract planning, tender and award support, contract drafting coordination, contract administration, vendor performance monitoring, variations, claims, renewals, disputes, and close-out.

Tender, Award and Contract Planning Support

• Lead contract planning discussions with SCM and end-user departments to ensure requirements, scope, deliverables, commercial expectations, evaluation considerations, and risk areas are properly defined.
• Review tender and contract-related documentation to ensure clarity, completeness, consistency, and alignment with business requirements and governance expectations.
• Provide advisory support during tender preparation, bidder clarification, evaluation coordination, negotiation, recommendation for award, and contract finalization.

Contract Drafting, Review and Administration

• Coordinate the preparation, review, and finalization of contracts, service agreements, purchase agreements, framework agreements, addendums, extensions, variations, amendments, and other contractual documents.
• Review contractual documents from a commercial, operational, governance, and SCM perspective to ensure business requirements and approved terms are properly reflected.
• Liaise with Legal & Corporate Affairs on legal clauses and matters requiring legal review, including liability, indemnities, confidentiality, termination, dispute resolution, and governing law.

Contract Governance, Risk and Performance Monitoring

• Ensure contract-related activities comply with the Company’s internal governance requirements, SCM procedures, Manual of Authority, Code of Conduct and Ethics, and applicable laws or regulations.
• Identify, assess, and escalate contractual, commercial, operational, financial, delivery, compliance, or vendor-related risks in a timely and structured manner.
• Work with contract owners and end-user departments to monitor vendor and contractor performance against agreed scope, service levels, timelines, contractual requirements, and performance standards.

Stakeholder Engagement and Continuous Improvement

• Build strong working relationships with internal departments to understand contract requirements, operational priorities, delivery challenges, and business needs.
• Provide clear and practical contract guidance to internal stakeholders to improve understanding of contractual obligations, timelines, deliverables, approvals, and compliance requirements.
• Develop and improve contract management tools, templates, checklists, registers, workflows, and guidance materials.

Position Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Law, Business Administration, Commercial Studies, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Professional qualifications in contract management, procurement, supply chain, commercial management, or project management would be an added advantage.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in contract management, procurement, supply chain, commercial management, legal support, vendor management, or project contract administration.
• CIPS certification is an advantage.
• Demonstrated experience providing contract advisory support in a structured governance environment.
• Strong experience in contract planning, tender support, contract drafting coordination, contract negotiations, contract administration, variations, claims, renewals, disputes, vendor performance monitoring, and contract close-out.
• Experience managing or advising on high-value, high-risk, operationally critical, or complex contracts.
• Demonstrate strong capability in contract strategy and lifecycle management, contract advisory and commercial review and contract drafting coordination and document review.
• Strong commercial judgement and business acumen.
• High integrity and accountability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

General Requirements

• Strong personal drive, leadership skills, technical acumen and able to manage wide variety of activities and projects;
• Strong sense of responsibility and accountability with positive working attitude;
• Must be well organized, work independently & have the ability to multi-task, lead and work in teams;
• Must be able to work well under pressure to meet strict deadlines;
• Good command of spoken and written Malay and English languages.

Interested candidates can contact Brunei Energy Services & Trading Sdn Bhd at bestrecruitment@be.com.bn for further details on the position.
All submissions must be accompanied with recent passport-sized photograph, copy of identity card (IC) and a comprehensive resume (accompanied by copies of certificates and references).
A competitive remuneration package and attractive fringe benefits will be offered to successful candidates.
Applications are open to Bruneian citizens only.

Closing date is on 15^th May 2026 and only short-listed candidates will be notified.