Apq Contract Manager

MEET-KSA-Dhahran**Job Description and Qualifications**

**PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITIES**:

- The development and implementation of Project contracting strategy
- Develop, negotiate, and manage all commercial agreements/contracts to mitigate risk and optimize opportunities.
- Mitigate project expenses without compromising quality.
- Provide ongoing commercial/contract support, ensuring commercial practices comply.
- Support the pre/post contracts awards process
- Competent understanding of contract(s) and the required administration thereof.
- Ensure contracts staffing requirements, both numbers and quality, are adequate to meet project requirements.
- Utilize professional experience to verify, oversee, negotiate and/or approve commercial agreements with clients and third parties.
- Comply with Lines and Limits of Authority.
- Analyze and report on complex situations and potential opportunities/risks of Variations to cost and schedule.
- Provide forward impact analyses and budgetary reporting internally and externally.
- Ensure that Procedures are followed and suggest changes if there is scope for improvement
- Maintain good relations and facilitate exchange of information between company and contractors and internally to assure alignment of strategic objectives.
- Lead and ensure the effective collation of data and information, provide analyses and reporting in a timely and periodic manner.
- Review contract specifications, works with Stakeholders (PM/PD) to identify risks or gaps in the Project Plan and support PM in the development and implementation of Risk Management Plan
- Ensure for each Project that there is a proper 1) business case, 2) risk management, and 3) compliance component
- Analyze monthly progress situations against previous forecasts to understand trends
- Support the Project Director in analysis and decision-making regarding milestones and invoicing
- Prepare feasibility studies with recommendations on cost-effective measures
- Proactively manage and enact the change control process to agreed quality and timescales in order to maximize the commercial and operational benefit to the Program
- Ensure that Projects proceed with respect to the agreed contractual / optimal deadlines (giving ample notice to the main Functions involved so that timely recovery strategies can be devised)
- Maintain commercial tools such as key bidding documents and Proposal templates post award updated and logically structured so that they are readily available as required
- Fully understand and consequently brief relevant parties on the interpretation of the commercial obligations on both the Contract and the Client, and the commercial/contractual impact of any failure to achieve these obligations
- Be an active member in the cross-functional project team, liaising with Engineering, Procurement, Operations and other Functions; identify potential areas of concern and resolve them before they become issues
- Interface with Finance department to develop best financial metrics in relation to bonds, payment and bank guarantees
- Follow and comply with Company, Project and Project Controls Department procedures and techniques, suggesting updates or integrations deemed beneficiary
- Ensure good practice and strict controls are implemented in relation to change orders, variations, claims, etc. (including the assessment of fee claims and advising on dispute resolution)

**EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE**:

- 10+ Years working experience
- Preferable; 3rd Level qualification in Quantity Surveying, Economics, Business, Engineering, Accounting or related disciplines
- Industry Sector Experience, Oil & Gas, Energy, Industrial Gases
- Contractual Form(s) experience
- Extensive technical comprehension of Construction & EPC jobs and markets, of the industry (ideally in Oil & Gas & Industrial Gas sectors)
- Competent knowledge & understanding of contract law and commercial/contracts management
- Ability to quickly assimilate and retain data and information
- Versatile, with ability to grasp broad variety of issues (technical and economic) that span from risk management to procurement, financial reporting and management of the supply chain
- Flexibility and capability of identifying solutions
- Demonstrated awareness to details in commercial agreements and implications in highly complex environments (impact on schedule, early identification of risks and opportunities).
- Commercial writing skills to illustrate briefly, clearly and exhaustively the facts, the points of friction/misunderstanding, the probable outcome of such situation/behavior and the suggested solutions (addressing Client, Subcontractors and Vendors, partners and colleagues).
- Ability to work with or without legal resources to draft contract clauses which capture the essential commercial issues of any situation
- Conversant with operating in a ‘Functionally’ structured organization.
- Analytical skills associated with developing and utilizing performance mea