Senior Contracts Manager (Claims)

Job description / Role

Linum Consult’s client is currently seeking a Senior Contracts Manager with strong Claims Management experience to be involved on a significant highway construction project in Qatar.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Managing and guiding the process of contract to ensure that all contracting and claims requirements are met in order to achieve the company’s business objectives
- Managing the preparation of contract documentation to ensure clarity of scope, requirements, project deliverables and timing are in line with the business objectives
- Approving variation orders to ensure they are submitted to the department head for sign off
- Administering post-contract correspondence, deed of assignments, novation agreements, and warranties
- Reviewing of contemporaneous records and time impact analyses to establish and report on validity of claim proposals
- Developing the claim narrative in coordination with site-based teams and negotiating claims with the employer’s team
- Monitoring and coordinating contractual claims and variations orders, and claims against the Government/client in conjunction with other Senior Managers and the Head of Contracts
- Drafting claim documents, supervising their compilation and representing the company at claims-related meetings with clients and consultants

Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant Engineering subject with a full membership to the RICS, ideally with an MBA or equivalent post-graduate qualification
- At least 20 years’ experience in contract management for large scale highway construction projects, with significant experience of post-contract management and claims management
- Strong experience of working for consultancies or PMCs
- Extensive knowledge of FIDIC and time impact analyses
- Excellent communication skills in spoken and written English

About the Company

Linum Consult is a niche global consultancy specialising in international recruitment of white collar workers across the Construction & Engineering, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors. We provide a full 360 consultancy service for clients, candidates and partners to eliminate the potential pitfalls of international mobilisation.

All Linum Consultants are industry experts with in country, international, multi-cultural experience. We provide precise market information combined with local knowledge to help facilitate informed decisions that are often life changing.