Contract manager

Company: Saipem

Project: Bonga North

Location: Nigeria

Job Title: Contract manager

About us: Saipem is a global leader in engineering, procurement, construction, and installation services for the energy industry. With a strong track record of successful projects and a commitment to excellence, we strive to deliver innovative solutions to our clients.

Mission

• During the contract execution phase, analyse and manage the contract terms, exploring contractual solutions and alternatives in order to minimize risks and optimize opportunities
• During the commercial phase, negotiate the bid terms and identify areas of possible risks and opportunities related to contract clauses. Explore contractual solutions and alternatives to minimize risks and optimize opportunities during the contract negotiation in the commercial phase

Tasks

Manage and coordinate contract mngm. activities ensuring that all aspects of the contract during the negotiation and execution phase are correctly addressed
• Ensure that Golden Rules/Silver Guidelines are implemented
• Manage the resources involved in contract mngm. activities, develop relevant professional competences and identify project staffing needs
• Supervise application of Saipem guidelines/standards relevant to contract mngm.
• Provide necessary reports regarding contract mngm. matter to the corporate/company/project mngm.
• Ensure collection and sharing of lessons learned, feedbacks and returns of experience on issues/criticalities encountered during contract mngm. activities
• Ensure, for the area of its remit, application of the industrial risk mngm. methodology
• Review regulatory requirements
• Review, update and complete partner agreements according to contract/project development
• Coordinate contractual documentation filling
• Ensure contribution to the Legal function for the mngm. of preliminary activities of litigations

Commercial phase:
• Draft all contractual/negotiation documents and define the most appropriate clauses of the contract with clients, partners (incl. in Cooperation, Partnership and Joint Venture Agreements) and with subcontractors/vendors for the provision of goods, services and works
• Identify most appropriate contractual solutions and contribute to definition of optimal risk profile for the Company, ensuring that defined risk profile is adequately reflected in the relevant contract/cooperation documents
• Provide legal and contractual advices for the negotiation of loans on the markets, bank sureties, active and passive guarantees, parent company guarantees and indemnity letters
• Participate in bids presentation and commercial negotiation

Execution phase:

Recover bid contractual summary, any legal analyses and other support documentation prepared during tender phase
• Verify the completeness of contract documents (consistency check), supervise their distribution to project team members
and regularly execute contract induction meetings
• Assist the Project Manager in developing the contract mngm. execution strategy and ensure change process on the
project, including appropriate claim mngm. actions
• Ensure that all project specific contracts for goods, services or subcontracts are drafted incorporating contractual
obligations and assisting the Project Manager in identifying critical packages (subcontractors and vendors) requiring special
monitoring of contract risks
• Participate in the periodical project budget review meetings