Commercial Manager

Manage the Contract/Commercial Department of the Project efficiently
- Review and provide a substantiated report with the resolution for Claims and Disputes and Variation Orders
- Create and establish processes, procedures, and standards governing the Contract/Commercial Department
- Prepare Contracts and Agreements, Commercial Deals
- Check commercial deals related to the procurement
- Provide weekly and monthly reports on the Projects contractual status
- Represent the Client and the Consultant
- Review and approve the Interim Payments, Payments Certifications (Contractors’ and Consultants’, Vendors and Suppliers) on behalf of the Client
- Create and maintain a register (with the help of his teams) for Cash Flows, Bonds, Retention, Insurance, License, and Business Registration data
- Issue of Practical Completion/Taking Over and Final Completion Certificates
- Advise on Scope gaps, orders not placed, and provisional sums relating to any contracts.
- Assist in the preparation and production of tender documents, including all appendices, annexes, and tender addenda required
- Prepare, with his/her teams, a Schedule of Preliminaries / Employer’s Requirements for incorporation with the Tender Documents.
- Issue tender documentation and instructions to tenderers.
- Train his team and colleagues and transfer knowledge and report the progress of his team

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

- Manage all contractual aspects of a Project from the inception (business case) up to the final close out.
- Analyze, evaluate, and manage project finances, and contracts, as well as assuring commercial performance against established schedules, budgets, and other critical project data.
- Overseeing and managing a large number of separate Projects Contracts
- Establishing and maintaining procedures and processes related with Contract and Commercial Management.
- Establishing and maintaining Contractual and Claim Registers
- Review, analyze, and diagnose Contractors’ Claims. Prepare the Claim Report with the proposed resolution based on the Project’s Contract, the Country’s Laws, and Client’s legitimate interests
- Review existing contracts and identify risks and contractual terms not conforming to project policy and procedures.
- Collect all the information and ensure that the resources are available for dealing with all contractual issues and claims.
- Realize the critical data and describe the current situation accurately.
- Recognize the hidden or possible contractual and financial issues.
- Forecasting, based on his experience, of possible contractual implications.
- Draft a Contract or a Commercial Deal taking under consideration the Client’s legitimate interests, the governing laws, and the fairness criteria for all parties.
- Be proactive and forecast terms and conditions for the mutual gain of the parties.
- Create and add value to agreements.
- Negotiate with different parties in an efficient and productive manner and method.
- Resolute conflicts with sustainable agreements
- Protect the Client’s interests and advise him appropriately and accordingly on an ethical basis.
- Provide guidance, direction, and specialized assistance to the project team for the resolution of project commercial and contracts-related issues,
- Oversee the commercial performance of assigned project areas to ensure project commercial procedures and objectives are maintained.
- Sharing best practices and continual improvement techniques with staff, monitoring, and reporting to senior management concerning compliance with client business objectives.
- Attends regular meetings with the required people for contractual and commercial issues.
- Provide critical project updates/ reports and presentations.
- Interface with the Client’s team as required
- Manage a Contracts Administration Team
- Manage a Commercial team (Quantity Surveyors), procurement, including sub-consultants
- Supervise the operations of the Cost Department
- Advice the Client or the Project Director, present, and report the status of the program’s commercial and contract well-being.
- To make an evaluation of Risk Assessments
- Review and evaluate the projects’ progress, Planning Schedules, Critical Paths, S-Curves

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

- Bachelor of Science degree, as a minimum, in Contract Management, and/or Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Law, Procurement and Finance, or related technical/business field from an accredited internationally recognized university.
- Qualified and Chartered by a recognized international body such as the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, or other internationally recognized similar institution.
- Experience exceeding twenty (20) years, with at least fifteen (15) years working for large international construction engineering consultancies and/or construction companies.
- Must possess:

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