Contracts Manager
Schneider Electric - Other Locations
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :16 years, 11 أشهر
Held responsibility for the overall review of contracts and risk exposure during tendering and proposal issuing. Chairing contracts meetings and negotiating provisions, overall consolidation of contracts, processing review departures and carve-outs, and improving the contract review process. Responsible for overall contractual, claims, and variations issues during contract executions & closeouts.
• Contribute to contract reviews per the rules of engagement and in consultation with Legal and other SMEs, propose a commercial strategy for winning contractual set-up
• Negotiate subcontracts with key suppliers & ensure back to back terms with key suppliers where appropriate
• Perform a contract handover to the execution team, ensuring their understanding of critical contractual aspects. Administer the project execution against contractual rights and obligations
• Ensure that contractual supply obligations are performed, adequately documented, and closely followed up
• Support project manager on risk and opportunity identification and management
• Identify, prepare, submit, and negotiate variation orders and claims with both customer and subcontractors in a timely and effective manner, involve Legal as and when required
• Draft contractual correspondences in consultation with Legal as required
• Participate in project reviews, propose and support mitigation actions as required
• filing the contract and contract-related documents, preparing and negotiating applications for payment and invoicing, implementing and following up on financial means of payment such as a letter of credits, bank guarantees, and credit insurance
• assisting the project manager in the cost and value reconciliation of the project with a particular focus on variation/claim forecasting
• Manage the organization's commercial risk from the tendering phase to closeout for all division's projects.
• Review existing and develop standard terms and conditions for different high-risk contractors.
• Lead, guide, and mentoring of the contracts team with a focus on the development and ongoing building of capability, support the tendering pre-contracts team in work winning through review and negotiation of head contracts and key partnering agreements
• Preparation, review and negotiating cost and time claims for various projects
• Provide training in the areas of claims management and variation management for the organization
• Engage with key account and key stakeholders to provide guidance and advice on commercial matters, interpretation of internal guides and policies, including the understanding of TIC's insurance program regulations, and contractual requirements
• Identify commercial and program-associated risks, with the ability to develop and implement contract solutions, including foreign exchange risk, payments schedule, delivery, warranty & defects
Held responsibility for the overall review of contracts and risk exposure during tendering and proposals issuing. Chairing contracts meeting and negotiating provisions, overall consolidation of contracts, processing of review comments, and improve the Contract review process.
• Manage the company’s commercial risk from the tendering phase to close-out for all division’s projects.
• Review existing and develop standard terms and conditions for different high-risk contractors.
• Lead the negotiations of terms and conditions within commercial contracts, for principals and contractors.
• Lead, guidance and mentoring of the contracts team with a focus on development and ongoing building of capability
• Support the tendering pre-contracts team in work winning through review and negotiation of head contracts and key partnering agreements
• Engage with Key Account Managers and key stakeholders providing guidance and advice on commercial matters, interpretation of internal guides and policies (Power Handbook), including the understanding of TIC’s Insurance Program (refer to TIC Insurance Manual), regulations and contractual requirements
• Identify commercial and program associated risks, with the ability to develop and implement contract solutions, including foreign exchange risk, payments schedule, delivery, warranty & defects
• Develop forms, charts and other tools to assist in understanding and managing contractual risk
• Oversee the insurance program for the division, requesting quotations for policies and certificates of currencies, contract drafting for project-specific insurance requirements, and managing the annual insurance renewals.
• Consolidating of contracts, updating the company’s forms and processes for change management.
• Use and adoption of SharePoint during the tendering phase and contract management process, including tracking of existing contracts such as technical support, umbrella, and relationship agreements.
• Assisting the services and sales teams with the preparation of commercial proposals, with the focus on commercial risks, contract terms, insurance programs, and scope risks.
• Oversee contract risk assessments, evaluations, and recommendations.
• Development of negotiation strategies and taking the lead in commercial negotiations.
• Maintaining contractual records and documentation including contract changes, status reports, and other customer information.
• Management of the contracts arrangements including variations and formal contract correspondence
• Coordinating closely with in-house and external lawyers for various law matters.
• Clarify scope and administer subcontract and supplier contracts, including preparation of correspondence regarding claims and disputes
• Examines company rules and policies to ensure compliance and provides recommendations for necessary changes.
• Resolves issues with contracts and commercial operations, managing contract disputes and mitigations
• Communicates with parties so all understand the terms, particularly a contract's change management and claims aspects
• Coaches employees on best practices for managing contract issues and handling daily issues and tasks
Held responsibility for the extension of time claims review, analysis, and reporting, as well as, the evaluation of contractor submitted extension of time claims (EOT) for excusable and non-excusable delays. Identified, initiated, and prepared concurrency reports related to excusable delays and time-related claim documents including cause, effect, contractual entitlements, and substantiations. Accountable for the preparation of project procedures and claim management procedures for projects and independent schedule impact analysis of complex claims. Reviewed and analyzed construction schedules contractually and effectively against claims. Finalized the consultation and negotiation of claim matters with project contractors and sub-contractors.
• Successfully evaluated 45 delay events submitted by the contractor from January to May 2016 for the Dubai police headquarter project, and the evaluation of 10 disputed delay events consented and approved by all parties stakeholders for Fairmont hotel, Abu Dhabi, prepared concurrency reports for both projects for excusable delays.
• Successfully performed tasks related to claim preparations, notices, contractual correspondences, Variations, Logs, cost reports, forecasts for Al Ghurair's main contractor in the Dragon Mart project.
• Effectively utilized primavera project planner P6 in using different methods of claim analysis, such as impacted as-planned method, time impact analysis method, as-planned vs. as-built method, collapsed As-built or “but for” method, and window analysis method.
• Practical knowledge and application of Society of Construction Law Delay and Disruption Protocol and other claims guidelines like AACE Recommended Practice 29R-03 Forensic Schedule Analysis, significantly used in drafting counter reply letters to contractors claim related letters and methodologies.
• Practical expertise with general commercial and contractual issues (FIDIC 1987, 1999).
• Timely submission of reports and presentations on claims/dispute-related issues for senior management.
Built impressive record of achievement and advancement through series of progressively responsible positions administering contracts, project communication system and procedures, project reporting and presentations to relevant parties and clients associated to cost, time, operations, and systems, preparation of professional reports related to performance, productivity, commercial and technical issues, and formulation of bid proposals, the scope of work, and bid review and evaluations of tenders.
• Spearheaded the management of all project contract activities including the progress and operations related to cost and time of Presidential Palace Project for Ministry of Presidential Affairs worth multi-billion USD with an area of 334, 324 m². The main packages of the projects include the main building palace, wings, technical and ancillary buildings, landscape and ID, and roads and infrastructure.
• Communicated effectively with clients and team members regarding the progress, risks, expectations, timelines, milestones and other project metrics to clients to ensure the project met internal and client expectations for delivery timelines and strategy.
• Reliable application to scheduling, work packaging, planning & forecasting on the Projects
• Delivery of reliable reports, dashboards, status, forecast and productivity performance measurements
• CONTRACTS & TENDERING: Efficiently managed contract development and evaluated and monitored contract performance to determine the necessity for amendments or extensions of contracts and to ensure execution and performance compliance to contractual obligations.
• Prepared contracts register, claims register, and payments registers and monitored contractors' and consultants’ progress to ensure goods and services conform to the contract requirements.
• Managed and administered the disputes resolution process for the project for all disputes.
• Arranged and distributed reports and statistical data on contracts to provide management with the status of outstanding proposals or expenditures charged against contracts. Initiated correspondence on a wide variety of contract matters and prepared reports with an action plan regarding large disputes coordinated with the legal consultant for the client.
• Prepared and organized prequalification criteria of consultants and contractors and qualified companies.
• Project coordination with various parties, organizing kick-off meetings, and client progress meetings.
• Full project management proposals preparation upon receiving RFP, including the staffing and deployment schedule, technical and management write-ups, procedures, and project understandings.
• COST CONTROL & RISK MANAGEMENT: Partnered with Project Management Team on overall project cost analysis, reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and change management, risk mitigation, project budgets creation, manpower time/cost inputs in ERP, and budget variances and project cost, revenue, and margins control and monitoring.
• Performed quality assurance by monitoring and appraising the performance of contractors and consultants in the areas of cost and schedule control and progress measurement.
• Served as the liaison with the main office Accounting and HR departments for cost revenue and margin reports generations for the Project Management services.
Al-Reef Villas (MANAZEL Properties)
Cost Engineer
• Reviewing and checking contractor’s Payments for the different project packages (Villages, Downtown Infra structure).
• Handling possible variation orders and coordinating between different disciplines.
• Writing Monthly cost reports and organizing all cost data for client submissions.
• Writing Various Reports such as Risk analysis and Recommendations.
• Tracking and evaluating project costs.
Nareel Island (ALDAR Properties)
Engineer/Scheduler
•Working on the Design Schedule with Primavera 6
•Updating Current and Baseline Schedule based on the new timings.
•Coordinating between architectural, Structural and MEP
•Writing Letters, LOA, Contracts and Monthly Reports.
•Integrating Resources & Costs into the schedule
•Forecasting a look ahead schedule and coordinating with Client and Project Management.
Al-Reem Island
Sky Tower 1, Sun Tower 2 & Podium (SOROUH Properties)
Engineer
•Checking RFI’s, Approval of Structural and architectural transmittals.
•Planning Proposals & Reports for Sub Consultant’s Services.
•Writing Contracts and preparing Invoices for related sub consultant work.
•Coordinating between sub consultants and following up with the design process.
•Writing Professional letters and Specifications.
•Establishing a document control system in the site office.
Minor: Engineering Management Concentration and Design Project: Project Management.