Senior Commercial Manager

Job Description

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Commercial Manager to join our team! In this role you will get to manage all contract and commercial activities for a Program, Project, Organization, division, or a major Department.He manages the contractual activities related with any kind of Project for the pre-tender, and post tender (execution) phases, the handover and full Project close-out .What Youll Be Doing

• Manage efficiently the Contract/Commercial Department of the Project
• Review and provide a substantiated report with the resolution for Claims and Disputes and Variation Orders
• Create and establish processes, procedures and standards governing the Contract/Commercial Department
• Prepare Contracts and Agreements, Commercial Deals
• Check commercial deals related with the procurement
• Provide weekly and monthly reports on the Projects contractual status
• Represent the Client and the Consultant
• Review and approve the Interim Payments, Payments Certifications (Contractors and Consultants, Vendors and Suppliers) on behalf of the Client
• Create and maintain register (with the help of his teams) for Cash Flows, Bonds, Retention, Insurance, License and Business Registration data
• Issue of Practical Completion/Taking Over and Final Completion Certificates
• Advise on Scope gaps, orders not placed and provisional sums relating to any contracts.
• Assist in the preparation and production of tender documents, including all appendices, annexes and tender addenda required
• Prepare, with his/her teams, a Schedule of Preliminaries / Employers Requirements for incorporation with the Tender Documents.
• Issue tender documentation and instructions to tenderers.
• Train his team and colleagues and transfer knowledge and report the progress of his team

What Required Skills Youll Bring

• Manage all contractual aspects of a Project from the inception (business case) up to the final close out.
• Analyze, evaluate, and manage project finances, contracts, as well as assuring commercial performance against established schedule, budgets, and other critical project data.
• Overseeing and managing a large number of separate Projects Contracts
• Establishing and maintaining procedures and processes related with the Contract and Commercial Management.
• Establishing and maintaining Contractual and Claim Registers
• Review, analyze, diagnose Contractors Claims. Prepare the Claim Report with the proposed resolution based on the Projects Contract, Countrys Laws and Clients legitimate interests
• Review existing contracts and identify risks and contractual terms not conforming to project policy and procedures.
• Collect all the information and ensure that the resources are available for dealing with all contractual issues and claims.
• Realize the critical data and describe accurately the current situation.
• Recognize the hidden or possible contractual and financial issues.
• Forecasting, based on his experience, of possible contractual implications.
• Draft a Contract or a Commercial Deal taking under consideration the Clients legitimate interests, the governing laws and the fairness criteria for all parties.
• Be proactive and forecast terms and conditions for the mutual gain of the parties.
• Create and add value in agreements.
• Negotiate with different parties on an efficient and productive manner and method.
• Resolute conflicts with sustainable agreements
• Protect the Clients interests and advising him appropriately and accordingly on an ethical basis.
• Provide guidance, direction, and specialized assistance to project team for the resolution of project commercial and contracts related issues,
• Oversee the commercial performance of assigned project areas to ensure project commercial procedures and objectives are maintained.
• Sharing best practices and continual improvement techniques with staff, monitoring, and reporting to senior management concerning compliance with client business objectives.
• Attends regular meetings with the required people for contractual and commercial issues.
• Provide critical project updates/ reports and presentations.
• Interface with the Clients team as required
• Manage a Contracts Administration Team
• Manage a Commercial team (Quantity Surveyors), procurement, including subconsultants
• Supervise the operations of the Cost Department
• Advice the Client or the Project Director, present, and report status of the programs commercial and contract wellbeing.
• To make an evaluation of Risk Assessments
• Review and evaluate the projects progress, Planning Schedules, Critical Paths, S-Curves
• Apply the dominating country laws in the construction industry.

What Desired Skills Youll Bring

• Bachelor of Science degree, as minimum, in Contract Management, and/or Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Law, Procurement and Finance, or related technical/business field from an accredited internationally recognized university.
• Qualified and Chartered by a recognized international body such Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), Chartered Institute of Arbitrators or other internationally recognized similar institution.
• Experience exceeding twenty (20) years, with at least fifteen (15) years working for large international construction engineering consultancies and/or construction companies.
• Must possess:
• Experience of managing large projects/programs, preferably within the Entertainment sector.
• Negotiation of Prime contracts and management thereof, including management of international consultants and/ or contractors.
• Proven claims background (knowledge of SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol and/or Arbitration/ Dispute Resolution).
• Ability to develop strong working relationships with staff, client, and third-party teams, interface and coordinate project performance with other disciplines, interpret and deliver clients vision, and proactively manage project processes and requirements.
• Ability to manage complex work situations, and where required negotiate to resolve contractual issues.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English and interpersonal/ management skills.
• Arabic speaker will be appreciated.

Minimum Clearance Required To StartNot Applicable/NoneParsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veteran.

Keyskills :
construction law Procurement Negotiation Contract Management Commercial Management Dispute Resolution Finance Quantity Surveying Communication Skills Project Management Arbitration

About Company

NielsenIQ is a global measurement and data analytics company providing the most complete and trusted view of consumers and markets in 90 countries covering 90% of the world’s population. Focusing primarily on consumer packaged goods manufacturers and fast-moving consumer packaged goods and retailers, we give customers the power to defy what’s possible. Our approach allows us to connect the dots that others can’t see and build the bigger picture that others miss.