Contract Manager

As a Contract Manager you will be based at the project site in SaudiArabia reporting directly to the Project Manager and functionally to the Headof International Contract Management. Your role includes:

1- Preparation, update and monitoring of the obligations register.
2- Follow up with the project manager and the project team on a daily basis to ensure timely fulfillment of company's obligations.
3- Spreading awareness amongst the project team. Explaining the importance of meeting the contractual obligations and the necessity of seizing opportunities and rights
4- Review on daily basis communications exchanged at all levels, whether vis-à-vis the client, with key subcontractors and even internal.
Preparing and proposing contractual correspondence to be issued on the project, including notices, advance warning, instructions to subcontractors etc.
5- Preparing and proposing responses to all contractual correspondence to be issued on the project, including responses to the client and subcontractors' letters.
6- Preparing contractual notices and claims and pursuing the same.
7- Anticipate risks of claims and setting defensive strategies with the project manager and the team
8- Ensure that defensive strategies are being implemented by the team and that the intended target is achieved
9-Identification and brainstorming with the project team on contractual opportunities
10-Implementing with the project team all measures necessary to seize such opportunities, including amongst others, initiation of variation orders and value engineering and negotiating and settling the same with the concerned parties
11-Promoting amicable settlement with all parties concerned until resolving all disputes
12-Evaluating strengths and weaknesses on the project and proposing with the project manager resolution strategies
Maintaining cordial communication amongst the disputed parties and participate to all negotiation meetings
13-Participating to alternative dispute resolution procedures when disputes are not solved amicably
Tracking of pre-requisites for contract closing and ensure that all obligations linked to taking over and final completion certificates are timely achieved
14- Monitoring and following up the clearance of remaining defects
15- Ensuring that all company's liabilities on the projectare relieved and unconditional final completion certificate are obtained