Contracts Manager - Cables

Contracts Manager – Cables
Contracts & Claims
Offshore Windfarm
European Developer
Remote Working (ad-hoc travel to Poland)
Freelance – 12 Month Contract (outside IR35)
Competitive Day Rate

Currently recruiting for a Contract Manager to work on Contracts & Claims for the Cables package on behalf of a large, offshore wind farm developer in Poland. Reporting into the Procurement & Contract Management Lead, your role will be to lead and manage post-contract management activities for the Cables packages.

Key Responsibilities
 

• Lead any procurement requirements for the package including bid assessments, conducting the commercial assessment and supplier appraisal
• Lead and manage post contract management activities for the Cable packages
• Ensure timely and close co-operation and communication with the package manager
• Responsible for following project procurement and contract management procedures and good practice
• Contract manage the package contracts including payment obligations, monitoring supplier and employer contract obligations
• Manage claims and variations with support from legal and package management
• Co-ordinate with finance team and insurance to ensure communication and compliance

Major Tasks
 

• Manage contract management and procurement related interfaces and activities
• Continuous cooperation with other work streams, packages and other departments
• Monitor contract time schedules and delivery
• Conduct relevant supplier negotiations in procurement, contract management and claims resolution
• Pro-actively anticipate and avoid unexpected claims in Package's Contracts
• Assess consequences of technical decisions by package team and define actions along development and execution of the package works
• Managing claims and variations together with package managers, legal etc.
• Consider all commercial aspect during contract negotiations
• Negotiate most economically advantageous deals with suppliers
• Assess and monitor suppliers performance and financial standing
• Execution of the contract and procurement processes
• Conducting commercial evaluation of bids during procurement process
• Create and Maintain contract tracker to track contract obligations, payments
• Manage payment applications with package manager
• Track commodity and indexation prices for the package
• Report progress and status of contracts to Procurement and Contract Management Lead

Key Deliverables
 

• Contract management trackers
• Package reporting
  • Weekly/monthly
  • Commercial Progress
  • Claims/variations
• Procurement process documents
• Contract register updates
• Indexation tracking
• Knowledge sharing

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