Contracts Manager

Faithful+Gould are currently looking for an experienced Contracts Manager to KSA. The projects include high rise towers, mixed use developments, hotels & hospitality projects, large retail schemes (malls), airports and healthcare.

Requirements

• Degree Qualified and preferably chartered

• Minimum of 10 years post qualification experience

• 3 years experience working in a similar role in the Middle East

• Ability to relate and interact successfully with a multi-cultural workforce at all levels is essential

• Must have outstanding communication skills in written and spoken English and be capable of representing the company on commercial issues with the client.

• Must be familiar with FIDIC forms of contracts

• High degree of accuracy required

• Must be able to work both independently with a proactive approach and collaboratively as part of a team.

• Should be able to demonstrate the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• The Contracts Manager will report to the Senior Contracts Manager and will be responsible for managing a team of professionals at various discipline levels, delivering the contract administration services.

• Liaising with the Contract/Client and Project Management team.

• Responsible for submission of F+G deliverables on time and in accordance with F+G Quality standards.

• Ensuring that each Senior Contracts Administrator runs his section to the highest professional standards, that all information is current, and that every member of the team is receiving the information he needs to fulfil their responsibilities.

• Maintaining consistent and adequate procedures.

• Coordinating and managing individual Senior Contract Administrators

• Analyze information and produce overall reporting and recommendations for their sections of the works.

• Prepare and present monthly project expenditure to the Contractor.

• Prepare progress payment tools for the management and monitoring of the above mentioned registers. Monitor progress both on and off site. Identify deviations in both construction and procurement progress and suggest possible courses of corrective action

• Working closely with the ‘Project team’ to ensure that the contractor’s contracts administration programmes and reporting is feasible, complies with the clients contractual obligations.

Rewards & Benefits:

We offer an excellent package which includes:

• A competitive salary

• Transportation allowance

• Medical and life insurance cover

• Annual leave

• Medical and life insurance cover

• Company gratuity scheme

• Discretionary bonus scheme

• Annual flight allowance to point of origin

SNC Lavalin’s Faithful+Gould business is one of the world’s leading integrated project and programme management consultancies, with over 2,400 professionals operating worldwide.
Our aim is to protect and maximize our clients’ interests throughout the planning and delivery of projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget. We pride ourselves on collaborating with client teams and developing long-term relationships.

Key services include - Project management, programme management, project controls, commercial management, cost management and expert scheduling and construction planning. Our industry is going through a digital transformation and we have been investing in and pioneering digital methods to improve all aspects of our service.

We have focused our digital transformation around platform modernization and product development and through standardization and automation, we are achieving efficiencies that are directly passed on our clients who benefit from a consistent quality of service as well as the savings.

Active in the Middle East for over 20 years, we have offices in the UAE, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. We hire and retain only the best people in the industry. Our success is built on recruiting – and then developing – brilliant people from a broad range of professional and cultural backgrounds. It’s precisely this diversity of talent that sets us apart.