Corporate Commercial Manager
Keo International Consultants - Qatar
Total years of experience :7 years, 9 Months
Supervision Consultants:
• Change and claims management - Evaluating and reviewing changes/variations and claims through change management procedure, including attending to any queries raised by PWA and bring to closure or approval.
• Client engagement and reporting to advise and resolve commercial and contractual matters.
• Budget management and forecast final account for the managed projects.
• Ensuring consistencies and QA/QC of the commercial and financial delivery across all the managed PWA projects.
• Provide monthly report on commercial or financial issues for all the managed projects.
• Analysing and reviewing bid documents, cash flows, and forecasts to complete work packages.
• Assist PWA in identifying potential savings on the construction projects.
• Advise on procurement and tendering strategies for internal and stakeholder approval.
• Ensure pre-qualification and qualification process and procedures for the selection of consultancies and contractors are implemented.
• Managing the timely submissions, processing and conclusion/ approval of time and cost impact assessments (TIA/CIA) of all instructions and claims.
• Management of the challenge / dispute of claims and advise on the Engineers determinations.
• Prepare and review contract documents for final approval and ensure alignment with LOA requirements.
Commercial Manager for Ashghal on the Expressway Program which involves the design and construction of some 30 major road and infrastructure projects for the strategic road network of Qatar. All projects are of a very large scale and have a value of up to several billion Qatari riyals each. Projects are typically multi-lane, dual carriageway with grade separated interchanges. The projects include the provision of the major trunk utility services, typically underground including drainage, power, water reticulation, sewerage, treated sewage effluent (TSE), telecommunication services, and others.
Mixed used development for Internal Security Forces:
Prepared an independent assessment and recommendation for the Engineering Services Department and President of Ashghal on a Contractor’s claim of QAR1, 4 billion: Claim for extension of time (including schedule concurrency analysis), prolongation costs and additional costs.
Project Controls Manager and Commercial Lead on a 1.2 bil Euro Integrated hospital project in Turkey. Manage a team of 20 (planners, cost engineers and quantity surveyors) in the EPC office. The design, engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, testing and final handover of a 3, 577 bed (1, 150, 000m2) integrated healthcare campus in Etlik, Ankara.The project includes a main hospital, a rehabilitation hospital, a high-security psychiatric hospital, administration building, hotel, conference centre, restaurant and commercial areas.
► Implement the complete back charge control system and procedure for accommodation, medical care, personnel transport, HSE, security services, and bulk material (rebar) and equipment supply.
► Development of a new control system to monitor, report and forecast the end dates of activities and tasks to be performed by the design consultancy (Studio Alterie) on the Project. These dates were directly linked with the procurement departments' contracting plan where they had to prioritise procurement in terms of design maturity and available work fronts.
Commercial Manager on various oil & gas projects executed by Kentz in Saudi Arabia.These projects also included site civil works, power lines, site utility services and fencing. The total value of the projects (Shaybah, Khurais, Hawtah and Ras Tanura refinery) is approximately $1.5 bil.
Major responsibilities included the review of contract specifications with all stakeholders (Saudi Aramco, Kentz management, subcontractors, etc) to identify risks or gaps in the project execution plan.
► Implement a payment monitoring procedure and workflow in order to improve Kentz cashflow.
► Prepare delay claim due to the late issue of permits by Client.
Project Controls Manager at the AG&P fabrication yard in Batangas (Philippines) on the Yamal LNG Project. General site project controls functions for the EPC Team at the fabrication yard during the pre-fabrication, fabrication, assembly, commissioning and sail-away phases of moduler construction units.
► Implement a comprehensive daily progress reporting system and procedure for major fabrication and construction activities.
► Identify shortcomings in the contractor’s daily manpower and equipment reporting systems and develop an alternative reporting system in MS Access.
Involved in all phases (from concept to execution and final handover) of infrastructure, mining, oil & gas and renewable energy projects in the Almaty office of WorleyParsons.
Provide lead to project controls teams (including cost control, planning / scheduling, procurement, risk management and document control) mobilised on projects.
Develop and prepare the project control plan to outline the process that will be used to measure progress of the project, control cost and project schedule.
MSc Project Management
BSc Quantity Surveying (MRICS)