Senior Contracts Manager

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced and commercially astute Senior Contracts Manager to join Turner and Townsend's Contract Services Team in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. With a 'can do' attitude and results-oriented approach, you will deliver best-in-class contract management, claims management, and dispute resolution services across the region. You will support our Subject Matter Experts in providing strategic consultancy advice to clients on live contracts and projects, whilst contributing to the growth of our high-performing Contract Services division.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide expert contract management and consultancy services across a variety of construction sectors and project types, demonstrating hands-on experience with standard forms of contract including FIDIC and other recognised contract suites
• Develop and implement comprehensive contract administration strategies, managing contract development, pre-contract and post-contract requirements from award through completion, including take-over of works and final assessment
• Review and approve contractor and subcontractor submissions for compliance with primary contract requirements, whilst establishing and implementing contractor and consultant performance management frameworks
• Lead contractual negotiations and provide strategic commercial guidance to project managers, services managers, and programme directors, managing relationships proactively to identify optimisation opportunities
• Specialise in claims management and dispute resolution services, including compiling comprehensive claim reports, undertaking performance forensics analysis, and supporting arbitration and/or litigation processes
• Apply methodical analytical skills to dispute avoidance and resolution, demonstrating a flexible and adaptable approach to service delivery under challenging scenarios on projects in distress
• Provide confident client-facing consultancy support with strong presentational skills, communicating complex contractual and commercial information clearly to diverse stakeholders

Qualifications

**Required Experience:**

• 15+ years of post-graduate progressive experience in contract administration and management within major civil and infrastructure projects
• Substantial hands-on experience with international contracting mechanisms, particularly FIDIC suite of contracts and other recognised standard forms
• Proven expertise in claims management and dispute resolution across complex, multi-party contracts
• Demonstrated track record administrating multiple concurrent contracts on large-scale real estate and infrastructure projects
• Established experience developing and implementing comprehensive contract administration strategies from pre-contract through completion and final assessment
• Proven capability in establishing and managing contractor and consultant performance management frameworks
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