Contracts Commercial Manager Corporate - Pre-Contract

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Job Description

Contracts/Commercial Manager (Corporate)

Dubai, UAE

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!

At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.

POSITION OVERVIEW: Manages all contracts and commercial activities for a Sector, a major market segment. Engages extensively with all the PMs and Directors and supports them on all ongoing business development activities, pre-contract commercial and also support on post-contract works.

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Contracts/Commercial Manager to join our team!

What Youll Be Doing

• Support to prepare consultancy fee proposal
• Participate in Division, Company, and Corporate strategic planning activities (e.g., risk assessment, bid/no bid analysis, participation in business plan development, etc.).
• Support for finalization of sub-consultancy agreements, in liaison with our legal team.
• Liaising with PMs and picking up potential VOs and submission of fee proposal and associated documentation
• Monitoring all the VOs and liaising with Client to get these approved.
• Supporting PMs for procurement of performance bonds, insurances etc. for the new projects
• Handling of post-tender clarifications/tender qualifications, in coordination with PMs, legal and client
• Handling of review of new contracts when received from clients and coordinate between client and legal to close the comments
• Leading assessment of technical submissions (submitted by the contractors) with support from representatives from construction, planning and design.
• Handling of contractual correspondence in case of any rejection (questioning merits) of variations from the client.
• Follow up with PMs for on-time invoicing
• Follow up with clients for payment of invoices
• Reviews requests for proposals to identify risks and contractual terms not conforming to Company policy.
• Negotiates the more difficult, complex, or sensitive issues with clients.
  
  
  

What Required Skills Youll Bring

• Bachelors Degree in Engineering or Quantity Surveying from a reputable organization
• Minimum 20 years of contract administration/management experience related to consultancy related matters within a large international organization
• Proven experience in analyzing contract variations, claims, initiating and reviewing written correspondence related to the program
• Experience in Contract Management pre award is essential
• Prior experience in managing design/build type contracts
• Ideally 5+ years Dubai/UAE contracts management experience
• Excellent written contractual correspondence and verbal communication skills in English.
• Must have a clear understanding of, and ability to work with, construction contract commercial documents, engineering drawings and specifications.
• Working knowledge of software typically associated with contracts management.
  
  
  

What Desired Skills Youll Bring

• Qualified and chartered by a recognized international body such as Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb).
• Experience with FIDIC
• Experience working for a Consultant providing internal and external advice
• Ability to work autonomously.
  
  
  

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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