Supplier Contract Manager

We are currently supporting a leading engineering company with their search for a Supplier Contract Manager to join them on a permanent expatriate basis in Dubai.

Objectives

1. The Supplier Contracts Manager owns the Supplier Contracts process from the moment the tender evaluation commences up until the closure of the execution Contract Product, Services, and Construction and engineering services.
2. Ensures and promotes compliance with company policies, standards, procedures, and contractual obligations.
3. Closely works with Contracts and/or Legal function to help review and assess the liabilities present in Customer Contracts, Subcontracts, or Supplier Contracts to understand contractual risks and lead the supplier T&C negotiations.

Activities

1. Establish supplier contracts to implement the chosen business strategy of the project effectively, maximizing contractual protection to the company through client/prime contract back-to-back flow downs.
2. Assists in the drafting, revisions, negotiations, and approval process of global and/or strategic supplier contracts for the assigned tender and/or packages.
3. Collaborate with the Contracts & Legal Department, Finance Department (including Tax), HSE, Sourcing & Procurement, and Operations (or any other department/function) as appropriate, to ensure contractual and commercial risks and exposures are clearly identified, analyzed, and properly addressed.
4. Participate and contribute to all tender and execution PLG and CME gates where applicable.
5. Engage key stakeholders as required, including Executive Company Sponsors.
6. Propose, draft, revise, negotiate, approve processes, and implement agreement templates, terms and conditions, and contracts standards appendices, processes, practices, procedures, and guidelines for the assigned tender and/or packages.
7. Finalize contracts for signature once all stakeholders and parties agree.
8. Negotiate and close contractual disputes for the assigned Global Category, being responsible for negotiation strategies, resolution, and follow-up in coordination with the Legal Department and the Supply Chain Management teams.
9. Review and discuss proposed draft contracts with all relevant stakeholders to ensure compliance with tax, HSE, and all other functions involved.
10. Benchmark performance and audit suppliers with assistance from key stakeholders.
11. Provide contracts guidance and support to Sourcing Specialists.
12. Ensure expert management of Global Category contacts in Ariba and produce reports while continuing to monitor contracts status in line with Global Category strategies (i.e., contracts coverage, etc.).
13. Ensure and monitor compliance with all company policies, standards, and procedures, and contractually assumed obligations.
14. Contribute to the legal department's knowledge management program by capturing and sharing lessons learned from legal matters and making useful legal content available on the Legal KM Portal.

Processes

1. Contract and Pricing Management
2. PF SC Digital Ecosystem
3. Local Regulations and TCC planning/assurance
4. PLG
5. Risk assessment
6. Internal service delivery
7. Continuous process improvement

Key Indicators

1. Contract Management
2. CLMP KPI
3. On-time delivery for PLG Tender gates contracts functional deliverables
4. Project KPI's

Interfaces

1. This list is not exhaustive:
2. Construction Manager
3. BL/GU Legal Counsel
4. Project Manager
5. Project scheduler/controller
6. Engineering
7. Suppliers
8. Quality
9. Risk Management team
10. Tender Manager
11. Supply Chain Contracts Team

Prior Experience/ Expertise Required

Experience:

1. More than 5 years of Contracts Management or Project execution experience, with demonstrable knowledge of construction SOW.
2. Prior work experience in Production Facility / EPCC Projects.
3. Civil engineering background is an advantage.

Examples:

1. EPCC experience
2. Contract management
3. Variation order management
4. Contract / Legal Review

Our Role in Supporting Diversity and Inclusion

As an international workforce business, we are committed to sourcing personnel that reflects the diversity and values of our client base but also that of Orion Group. We welcome the wide range of experiences and viewpoints that potential workers bring to our business and our clients, including those based on nationality, gender, culture, educational and professional backgrounds, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, and age differences, job classification, and religion. In our inclusive workplace, regardless of your employment status as staff or contract, everyone is assured the right of equitable, fair, and respectful treatment.