Contracts Manager

Currie & Brown is looking to recruit a Contracts Manager to join our team in Riyadh, KSA working with key clients on a mix of large scale projects.

The successful candidate will support project leaders in generating a high standard of service delivery, achieving successful outcomes for our clients, capturing and sharing knowledge across projects, enhancing our culture of innovation, and reinforcing our reputation as a preferred service provider.

Responsibilities will include:

• Providing accurate cost advice and reporting to our clients
• Drafting contract particulars and appendices, compiling tender documents, negotiating contract conditions etc.
• Managing and understanding of the various forms of Contracts
• Drafting notices, correspondence and responses to notices and correspondence
• Compiling and drafting reports and recommendations in respect of contract awards, claims and variations and ad-hoc reports
• Coordinating with other PMC/Cost teams and other project functions
• Managing, leading and coordinating a team of cost, contracts, and commercial managers within a live project environment
• Delivering projects, commissions, and professional assignments
• Maintaining effective communication to ensure all information is available for successful project completion; liaising with other managers to ensure efficient financial control
• Undertaking commercial management services with limited supervision
• Delivering all work outputs in an accurate and timely manner
• Representing the company in a professional and diligent manner; meeting, negotiating and corresponding with clients to maintain strong working relationships

Requirements:

• BSc in quantity surveying or equivalent
• MRICs and/or MCIarb is required
• Prior technical delivery experience gained within a global construction consultancy / contractor
• Minimum of 10 years previous experience as Commercial / Contracts Manager
• Good technical writing, client-facing and communication skills (both internal and external)
• Well versed in contract letter writing
• Well-organized, diligent, proactive, assertive, well-disciplined, and commercially astute
• A team player with a ‘can-do’ attitude, outgoing, polite, patient, diplomatic, personable, respectful, and flexible

At Currie & Brown, we know that when it comes to a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from. That's why we take a collaborative, open-door approach to running our business. Our people, from apprentices to senior management, make our company what it is. Everyone in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced, contributes to our success in their own way, and we have fun doing it.

Unlike other companies, we focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments. We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people. Whether it's the desire to work internationally, the urge to develop, or even the curiosity to work in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage, offering guidance, support and the structure to achieve. That's why so many of us have been building successful careers here for so long.

With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company. Our people are able to make quick and flexible decisions, and work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

This mix of our scale and size, our partnerships and our people makes us a true industry leader around the world.