Project Contracts Manager

We require a Project Contracts Manager to work along side with one of our top Client for managing contracts from outset to completion with customers, vendors, partners, and colleagues, ensuring compliance with terms and conditions, as well as documenting any changes or amendments that may arise during implementation or execution.

Additionally, negotiate sub-contracts, and orders, monitor sub-contractors, plan critical dates, and organise people resourcing levels, consulting closely with other internal and external stakeholders.

Furthermore being responsible for agreeing additional scopes of work, successfully managing contract changes post-award, resolving disputes, and identifying areas for improvement in contracting processes

Accountabilities:

* Ensure alignment with the Project Management team on project contract administration need, objectives, and requirements.

* Manage contract creation and provide support to the business to ensure risk is minimised

* Reviewing of contracts from suppliers, associations, tendering companies, and sub-contractors - including but not limited to framework agreements, individual works programme agreements, and sub-contractor agreements

* Responsibility for contract risk assessment with mark-up and comment tracking, through to finalisation of documents

* Manage contracts, including but not limited to sales, procurement, partnership agreements, trade agreements, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, and intellectual property agreements

* Responsible for review of contracts on an ongoing basis ensuring that any required changes are implemented and appropriate, so that the whole contract remains enforceable etc.

* Maintaining contract files in a secure, and version-controlled format

* Conducting reviews of all contractual business interfaces to highlight contractual gaps and delivery risks

* Working with business appointed external Solicitors - or internal legal and commercial professionals and other stakeholders - to review application of existing contracts, and writing of replacement contracts

* Maintain compliance with the contracts and ensure their proper understanding and management.

* Support in negotiations of claims, variations, changes, and disputes with contractors in collaboration with Project Management, Legal Department, and others as required.

* Evaluate and prepare claims, variations, and changes as required.

* Ensure communication of changes to contracts to all key stakeholders.

* Ensure the project team understands and utilizes all the contracts properly.

* Facilitate contract life cycle management from planning to execution and performance stewardship and feedback.

* Ensure the Contractor’s contract administration and subcontracting procedures and processes meet contract requirements.

Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications Requirements:

* Proven experience of working with and managing contracts – particularly NEC type contracts - inclusive of contract reviews, amends and mark-up, applying contractual challenge and negotiation, liaison with legal bodies and contract file maintenance

* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence others to deliver results

* Demonstrate knowledge of Health and Safety, CDM, and compliance

* Capable of working to deadlines, and with incredibly detailed information

* Ability to write clear and precise reports, and to relate complex information simply to a diverse range of people

* Excellent negotiation and team-working skills

* Knowledge of past and current Engineering Construction technology, business, and contract law

* Experience of using SAP system

* Educated to a minimum of Degree level in a relevant subject, or equivalent experience in Contracts Management

* Full clean driving licence

* Occasional flexible working required

* Occasional lone and/or home working required

* Regular UK travel required