Contract & Commercial Manager – DeepOcean Management
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Job Description
Published 22-09-2024
Deadline: 14-10-2024
Contract & Commercial Manager
The Contract & Commercial Manager may either lead a tender or be the commercial lead on a project. The Contract & Commercial Manager will generally follow the same project through the full project lifecycle, from receipt of tender through to project execution.
On a project, the Contract & Commercial Manager will be responsible for contracts management and project controls including planning, cost control, document control and project risk and management, with these functions reporting directly to the Contract & Commercial Manager during project execution.
The Contract & Commercial Manager will either have a commercial or contractual background, typically with experience as a commercial manager, business manager and/or contracts manager.
Duties and responsibilities
The key responsibilities for the Contract & Commercial Manager during the tender phase are:
- Develop and manage commercial strategy and tendering activities during tender, in coordination with the Commercial Manager of the Business Line and Technical Lead/Manager, to secure a successful outcome.
- Carry out detailed commercial and contractual review of tender, and preparation of tender outlines, including risk analysis, for presentation to senior management.
- Act as single point of contact with customer and DeepOcean senior management.
- Manage the tender team and delegate responsibilities for tender input within the organization.
- Lead negotiations and clarifications with Client in accordance with DeepOcean delegations, principles and procedures, to agree and establish contract.
During the execution phase, after successful completion of a tender, the key responsibilities of the Contract & Commercial Manager are:
- Form part of the project management team alongside Project Manager and Project Technical Manager. The Contract & Commercial Manager plays an important role by being responsible for the contract management of allocated project(s) and overseeing the mercantile functions within the project organisation such as Cost Control, Planning, SCM and Risk Management.
- Fulfill the contract management role on the project, ensuring full compliance with contract obligations and timely notifications.
- Proactively lead the variation management process to identify change, in close collaboration with the project team and through monitoring of correspondence, and subsequently prepare relevant claim and obtain client approval.
- Ensure that rigorous standards are set and maintained in terms of quality of formal project correspondence and communication tracking, hereunder drafting of contractual documents such as variations, side letters, amendments and addendums.
- Lead internal and external project meetings and processes dealing with contractual /commercial issues and disputes. Liaise with management and legal department as required.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree preferably within industrial economics, economics, business- and/or contractual administration, law or other relevant discipline.
- Minimum 5 years working experience from contract and commercial management or from a similar role within the oil & gas and/or renewables sector.
- Commercial mindset and contractual understanding, with a good knowledge of legal concepts relevant to the industry.
- Experience with relevant contract standards such as NTK, NS, FIDIC and/ or BIMCO is an advantage.
- Ability to effectively negotiate, along with high professional standards of written and spoken English are essential for the role.
- Subsea industry experience and/or technical understanding may be an advantage, but not a requirement.
Personal qualities
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work efficiently as an individual as well as part of a multi-disciplined team.
- Possess an eye for detail with an ability to produce work of a high standard and accuracy.
- Our values are important to us, and therefore we hope that you can recognize yourself in these as well: We ACT with a can-do Attitude. We ACT with the Courage to embrace new challenges, to stop unsafe practices, always be compliant and to shift boundaries with innovative solutions and we ACT as one Team.
We can offer
- A fast-paced and team-oriented work environment – we have fun at work!
- Varied challenges and great internal development opportunities.
- A chance to make an impact in a global organization.
- We offer favorable travel, insurance, and pension benefits, flexible working hours, subsidies for physical activity, and the possibility to work from home as needed.
- After work activity groups for E-sport, football, padel, jogging, climbing and more!
General information
Make sure that we are able to give your application consideration: Please attach copies of your transcript of records in our recruitment system. If you are in the process of completing a degree, please upload an official temporary transcript or other document describing subjects and grades completed to this point.
DeepOcean has joined the United Nations Global Compact, the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative. We support the 10 United Nations Global Compact Principles on human rights, labour standards, environment and anti-corruption. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and workplace. We value inclusion, equality and diversity and encourage all qualified candidates to apply. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status or gender identity.
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