Contract & Claims Manager
Job description
Contract & Claims Manager
Foundation Supply & WTG T&I packages
Offshore Windfarm
Remote Role
Freelance / Ltd Company
Competitive Rates
12 Month Contract
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage post-contract management activities for the Foundation Supply & WTG T&I packages.
- Manage claims and variations with support from legal and package management.
- Contract management including payment obligations, monitoring supplier and employer contract obligations.
- Ensure timely and close cooperation with the package manager.
- Follow project procurement and contract management procedures and good practices.
- Coordinate with finance team and insurance to ensure communication and compliance.
Major Tasks
- Manage contract management and procurement-related interfaces and activities.
- Continuous cooperation with other work streams, packages, and departments.
- Monitor contract time schedules and delivery.
- Conduct relevant supplier negotiations in procurement, contract management, and claims resolution.
- Proactively anticipate and avoid unexpected claims in Package's Contracts.
- Assess consequences of technical decisions by package team and define actions along development and execution of the package works.
- Managing claims and variations together with package managers, legal, etc.
- Consider all commercial aspects during contract negotiations.
- Negotiate economically advantageous deals with suppliers.
- Assess and monitor suppliers' performance and financial standing.
- Execute contract and procurement processes.
- Create and maintain contract tracker to track contract obligations and payments.
- Manage payment applications with package manager.
- Track commodity and indexation prices for the package.
- Report progress and status of contracts to Procurement and Contract Management Lead.
Key Deliverables
- Contract management trackers
- Package reporting (weekly/monthly)
- Commercial progress
- Claims/variations
- Procurement process documents
- Contract register updates
- Indexation tracking
- Knowledge sharing