Head of Contracts Management

Cobalt

Muscat, Oman

Ref: KP112-449

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

One of the largest construction companies in the UAE is looking for a Head of Contracts Management for their projects in Muscat, Oman.

Job responsibilities:
- Ensure compliance with corporate commercial procedures and standards regarding contracts, tendering and projects
- Monitor commercial aspects of projects (owner of commercial procedure) via performance reports, receivables, etc. to ensure project delivery is in-line with contractual client agreements; directly resolve any discrepancies
- Ensure accuracy of Value of Work Done reports
- Support business units regarding contract design and negotiation (commercial elements) with customers, suppliers, and subcontractors; liaison with central Legal to align involvement
- Proactively support Tendering in commercial aspects of tenders
- Ensure that clients requests are as per original scope of work and highlight if clients change requests will incur additional costs
- Ensure stringent claims management towards clients (receivables collection) in alignment with Accounting (while maintaining good relationships with clients)
- Support projects/Business Units in arbitration cases
- Make sure project risk assessment is conducted with project management and central risk department
- Create reports for internal audit on a project based commercial assessment
- Manage, train and develop direct reports and conduct periodic performance reviews

Requirements

- Bachelor degree in business engineering
- Master degree in business engineering advantageous
- Related professional experience
- 15+ years of experience in regional construction companies with 8+ years of experience in contracts and commercial management

Business and technical skills
- Professional contract drafting and reviewing
- Quantitative and qualitative risk analysis
- Claims management and strict enforcement of claims
- Strong service orientation towards business units
- Proven negotiation skills
- Strong communication skills and ability to resolve disputes
- Highly results oriented

About the Company

Cobalt is part of a leading international recruitment provider with offices in Europe, Singapore and New Zealand. Cobalt offers high quality HR consultancy, executive search, contingency recruitment and Emiratization services in Dubai and the wider MENA Region. It works extensively within the fields of Construction & Engineering, Banking & Finance and HR & Business Support.

Contributing to the regions development, we play a key role in identifying and attracting the very best talent to ensure the regions potential is realized. We also understand the importance of Emiratization in ensuring the long-term success of the UAE economy and have therefore pro-actively developed a strong network of UAE Nationals within our specialist areas.

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