Contract Manager

Contract Manager

You as a Contract Manager will be part of Hitachi Energy business based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ensuring the portfolio of contracts in the business follows contract and claim management methodologies in accordance with internal standards and guidelines.

Your responsibilities

1. Ensuring the portfolio of contracts in the business follows contracts and claims management methodologies in accordance with internal standards and guidelines.
2. Tender preparation and negotiations, including reviewing and commenting on commercial and technical tender terms and conditions.
3. Developing contract strategy based on Hitachi Energy policies, customer requirements, and the overall execution strategy considering risk, pricing, scope, and schedule.
4. Contract execution (from project kick-off to project closure), identifying the contract baseline (including terms and conditions, specifications, drawings, estimate, proposal, schedule, and other documents incorporated in the contract) and highlighting areas of potential risk.
5. Providing the project management team with a summary of the key terms and conditions and flow down strategy to suppliers or subcontractors.
6. Ensuring timely and accurate execution of commercial aspects in the portfolio of contracts (i.e., payments, claims, variation orders, warranties, provisions, guarantees, etc.).
7. Reporting on a regular basis to management critical claims and attending and presenting claims identified as critical for the business.
8. Contract closure, verifying that both parties to the contract have fulfilled their contractual obligations and that there are no outstanding responsibilities.
9. Assessing the success of the contract and determining if there are any lessons learned for future contracting.
10. Documenting and communicating to all appropriate parties any deficiencies found as part of the closeout process.
11. Establishing and enforcing standard change methodologies in the portfolio of contracts to identify changes and quantify the additional time and compensation due to Hitachi Energy per the contract.
12. Defining approval requirements and communicating changes to the customer.
13. Enforcing and defending Hitachi Energy contractual interests against customers and suppliers during the whole project life cycle, including monitoring and assessment of changes and deviations, as well as defending and enforcing claims.
14. In concert with Legal, developing the negotiation strategy and supporting negotiations.
15. Supporting Legal in handling formal dispute resolution, litigation, and arbitration, and notifying and liaising with Legal to report major claims.
16. Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background

A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field is required. Minimum 10 years of experience is preferred. Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.