Senior Manager - Construction Law

Job description / Role

Job Summary:
- Working closely with the Procurement team to identify risks and implement risk mitigation solutions
- Management of legal aspects of competitive tendering processes
- Negotiation of, and drafting, project documentation / amendments
- Provision of commercially-useable, legally sound ad hoc legal advice to the Department

Roles and Responsibilities:
* Risk identification / mitigation: Proactively engage with the business throughout the project life-cycle to:
- identify key risks on each project and across projects
- make recommendations to mitigate identified risks
provide robust drafting and contract structuring solutions to implement risk mitigation strategies
* Negotiation of contracts terms with individual bidders and with multiple bidders in a competitive tendering environment
* Competitive tender process: legal evaluation of bids received, response to bidders legal requests for clarifications, drafting legal addenda to RFPs
* Maintain standard RFPs and Agreements templates and improve periodically.
* Enhance the terms and conditions of templates based on users feedback after implementation and completion of agreement.
* Contract documentation:
- Drafting all legal project documentation to (a) reflect commercially agreed principles and (b) address identified risks
* Negotiating / drafting contract amendments
- Review of technical schedules to ensure consistency with legal terms and commercially agreed positions
* Advice: ad hoc advice which (a) is legally sound and (b) facilitates commercial solutions, to ensure seamless delivery of projects / resolution of issues on site

Requirements

Business capabilities:
- 12 years PQE (Post qualification experience) in construction law
- Ability to manage budget and control costs
- Reporting to senior management

Interpersonal skills:
- Good analytical skills
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Great understanding of policies, procedures & work methods
- Demonstrated skills in building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Key Performance Indicators:
- Meet the timelines / deadlines provided by the head of the department.
- Provide qualitative agreements, which are loophole free.
- Minimize the risk exposure of contracts to minimizes the cost impact.

Qualifications:
- Essential: Bachelors Degree in Law
- Highly regarded: post graduate qualifications relevant to the role

About the Company

Budge is a leading professional Recruitment and HR Consultancy covering the Construction, Real Estate and Asset Management Sectors in the UAE and across the GCC. Established in 2003 with offices in both the UK and Dubai, we apply nearly 15 years of local knowledge working with experienced consultants and an unparalleled network of clients and applicants from around the world, bringing you a refreshing approach to recruitment.

Our specialist consultants act for every class of organisation including investment funds, developers, consultants, contractors and specialist sub-contractors. We are the preferred supplier for a number of world renowned organisations both in the UK and Middle East.

Budge is a privately owned company that prides itself in offering a complete and professional solution to like-minded organisations across the globe.