Contracts/Commercial Manager (Corporate)

Parsons Corporation

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 You'll 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 You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's 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 You'll 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.