The Contracts Manager is responsible for the preparation, review, and administration of contracts. He is accountable to safeguard the Company's interests in contracts from the proposal development stage to contract administration during delivery.
This includes preparing/reviewing design and supervision contracts, addressing contractual matters, resolving disputes, and providing expert advice.
The job holder is responsible to monitor the organization’s contractual risk exposure from supervision projects in Saudi Arabia and devising mitigation measures to address these risks.
The job holder is also responsible to attract, develop and standardize the Contract's capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Supervise analysis, negotiation, and development of final contracts and ensure alignment with legal and contractual policies and regulations.
• Conduct contract negotiations on terms and conditions for projects while liaising effectively with relevant stakeholders including, but not limited to, Central Engineering, Projects, Legal, Finance, suppliers, and contractors to ensure compliance with the organization’s requirements and maintain projects within schedules and budgets.
• Assess areas of potential risk during contract development such as ambiguities, omissions, and conflicts.
• Review contractual requirements, provisions, terms, and conditions to ensure compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and the organization’s policies and procedures.
• Closely monitor ongoing contractual work and recommend corrective actions as necessary while working closely with the Projects and other business units.
• Review and ensure contract variation order requests have minimal impact on projects’ schedules and costs while the satisfaction of relevant stakeholders is maintained.
• Conduct random audits on existing contracts to ensure conformity to the organization’s standards, templates, terms, and conditions, and detect any breaches or risks.
• Analyze findings raised as a result of the contract management audit process and recommend corrective actions to close all relevant findings.
• Support relevant stakeholders, including Projects and Central Engineering, in the preparation of requests for proposals and tender documents to ensure all contractual requirements and specifications are included in accordance with the organization’s policies, procedures, standards, and lessons learned.
• Ensure performance is monitored for each active contract of the organization.
• Assess and adopt new changes in laws, regulations, and contract trends and determine the potential impact on the organization’s business.
• Lead complex contract negotiations with suppliers and contractors in collaboration with relevant stakeholders such as Projects, Legal, Finance, and Central Engineering.
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