Contract Manager

Contract Manager required for major Offshore Wind Farm developer based in Scotland

Responsibilities

• Manage the full tendering process in cooperation with Line Manager and Engineering Team for various contracts
• Support Line Manager on various procurement processes
• Manage the commercial part of tenders including conditions of contract
• Engage with Engineering team members to ensure that tender and contract terms match scope and deliverable requirements
• Detailed and robust negotiation of pricing with bidders
• Support and ssist the Commercial Manager where required
• Proactively manage all commercial aspects of contracts as assigned
• Support Line Managers in the management of complex contracts
• Proactively obtain cost savings from contracts by ensuring value engineering opportunities are fully investigated and developed
• Create and maintain contractual obligation registers and monitor to ensure that contractual obligations are being achieved
• Manage Contractor applications for payment, liaising with Contract & Package Managers to ensure payment obligations are being met
• Engage with finance and legal stakeholders to ensure alignment with RRPL policies
• Contribute to commercial risk assessment and actively contribute to risk mitigation
• Manage contractor compliance with Tier 2 / 3 open book tendering processes to deliver best possible value to the project

Requirements

• Excellent interpersonal skills, well organised and self-motivated with the ability to work as part of a team
• Commercially focused with negotiation skills
• Analytic & Problem-solving skills, the ability to analyse information and recognise the impact of decisions from a commercial perspective
• Stakeholder management & communication skills
• Experience of commercial management of large-scale renewable energy projects (preferably from a developer perspective)
• Experience of commercial tender negotiations
• Experience with negotiating various forms of legal agreements
• Minimum of 3 -4 year's experience in a similar role
• Relevant 3rd level qualification or equivalent work experience