Senior Contracts specialist

Senior Contracts Specialist are responsible for managing medium risk and/or small to medium-size contracts and supporting commercial /contracts negotiations in an autonomous manner. Typically assigned to assist a Contracts Manager. Senior Contracts Specialist personnel perform a key role in the Project Contracts Team or Corporate Contracts Team. They bring together contractual, commercial and technical knowledge in order to provide contractual and commercial guidance to the project team and/or corporate team for the benefit of the wider organisation.

Key Accountabilities

1. Contract Management & Administration

Organise and manage logs and files (both in terms of acentral database and hard copy filing systems) in a systematic manner to allowfor easy access.

2. Pre-Contract Execution & Post Contract Execution

Assist the pre client contract award i.e., during pre-FEED /FEED as well as during the proposal phase for seeking proposals fromsubcontractors on major packages. Post client contract award, preparation ofRFQs/RFPs for medium risk contracts, and work on them independently. Ensureprequalification requirements are adhered to when contracting with newsubcontractors as well as reverting of existing or expired subcontractorswithin the MODEC approved list of subcontractors.

3. Contracting & Negotiation Skills

Lead negotiations and manage low to medium risk contracts.Exposure to negotiations and drafting of high risk contracts. Drafting ofinternal approval sheet and obtaining the various levels of approval for allcontracts. Responsible for managing medium risk and/or medium-size contractsand supporting commercial / contracts negotiations.

4. Contract Administration

Post award subcontract management, drafting and/or reviewand approval of subcontract notices, amendments, change requests and changeorders, warranty claims, and formalization of subcontract closeout.

5. Financial Exposure

Handles contracts that are less than USD 10 Million in valuein an independent role from bidding to contract award to contractadministration as well as its closeout.

6. Data Analysis & Management

Ability to monitor as well as manage large amounts of dataset and interpret the correlations amongst them and discern patterns andrelations. Responsibility to run reports and generate commercial data sets onmajor packages and monitor commercial data on non-major packages.

7. Stakeholder Management

Interacts with external stakeholders. Effectively leading engagement opposite contractors for small to medium sized (value, risk,complexity) contracts. Develop insights during engagement process to deliver value-addition. Frequent interaction with internal stakeholders. Starting to lead and influence others in a team environment.