Commercial Contracts Manager

SYSTRA is one of the world's leading engineering and consultancy groups with 65 years of experience and employing more than 10,500 employees across 80 countries.

In Saudi Arabia, SYSTRA has been ever present for more than 20 years and continues to expand and play its part in helping the Kingdom achieve its 2030 vision. With 400+ employees SYSTRA is involved in many of the Kingdoms iconic projects

Within our Consulting business, we have an opportunity to establish a PMO to assist in the delivery of an urban regeneration project here in Riyadh, we are seeking a Commercial Contracts Manager to join this programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish and lead implementation of strategic commercial project plans.
• Manage a team of commercial, procurement, and contract staff as required, including the management of subconsultants, who are qualified to analyze, evaluate and manage project finances, contracts, as well as assuring commercial performance against established schedule, budgets, and other critical project data.
• Provide guidance, direction, and specialized assistance to project team for the resolution of project commercial and contracts related issues.
• Oversee the commercial performance of assigned project areas to ensure project commercial procedures and objectives are maintained by sharing best practices and continual improvement techniques with staff, monitoring, and reporting to senior management concerning compliance with client business objectives.
• Lead development of work plans and budgets.
• Review project proposals or work plans to determine time frame, financial objectives, and procedures for accomplishing work.
• Evaluate risks and contractual terms not conforming to project policy and procedures.
• Directly contribute to optimizing and overseeing the implementation of the program's procurement strategy
• Keeps subordinates up to date relative to the availability of resource materials dealing with current commercial issues.
• Upskill and train client and internal team members on best practices, trends and empowering them to become individual contributors.
• Review changes in scope or differing conditions and securing appropriate change orders for project cost and time if approved
• Review project progress reports and status of contracts, indicating current status with regards to financial situation and provide guidance and recommendations for improvements.
• Review of contractual notices of claims and providing contractual advice to the project delivery teams, where appropriate.
• Review contract close-out procedures to ensure that all terms and conditions of contracts have been complied with prior to final payment to contractors/consultants.
• Advise client management of ways to limit any potential claims deriving from the failure to strictly adhere to project contract terms and conditions.

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills

• 20+ years experience in commercial and contracts management for large-scale multi-disciplinary projects, within dynamic and fast paced environments, ideally within development organisations, with a proven track record of deploying forward-looking strategic, managerial, and operational methods.
• Demonstrable experience in leading the full contract development and management process, including coordination with Legal and timely and effective reporting of any issues or ambiguities to the relevant management or authorities.
• Strong expertise in evaluating contracts and commercial-related processes, procedures and other documents to make sure that they are in line with the applicable legal framework to best protect the organisation’s interests.
• Expertise in all aspects of commercial and contracts management, with ability to address complex contractual problems and investigate any key issues/contract breaches throughout the full cycle of projects, to ensure that the right action plans and measures are taken, mitigating any relevant risks for the company.
• Comprehensive working knowledge of governing bodies, committees, and regulatory organisations for the development sector within KSA
• Relevant professional certification(s).
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder engagement, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.