Deputy Contract Manager

Responsibilities:

- Prepare Contract Summary and ensure it is widely communicated and regularly updated.

- Ensure elaboration of the CDRL by the Project team members is launched in time, and ensure it is accurately communicated and updated. Monitor Works towards contract obligations; check schedule and all milestones compliance.

- Establish and implement project specific commercial procedures, particularly regarding correspondences, notifications, insurances, variation requests / orders and claims preparation files. Ensure a reliable filing and easy access of the correspondence from, and to, the customer/partners

- Develop a pragmatic commercial approach based on contractual analysis of project, to protect on a daily basis AT interests towards customer, partners and, in liaison with sourcing, suppliers/subcontractors.

- Log and notice facts to customer, prepare and manage all elements and materials for negotiation of claims and counterclaims.

- Anticipate events and risks, propose various counter-strategies and commercial solutions to keep the situation under control.

- Monitor customer/partners requests to detect variation / change orders to be proposed.

- Management of customer/partners Variation Requests/ Orders: follow up the VR / VO list, prepare commercial offer and prepare associated contractual letters for the CD / PM approval.

- Manage correspondence by analysing for the Project Manager all incoming correspondence, and preparing and reviewing all outgoing correspondence.

- Provide to the Customer Director (Cd), Project Manager (PM) & Regional Contract Management Director (RCMD) a monthly project contractual activity report and when relevant, alert or flash email.

- Inform RCMD and dedicated in-house lawyer about any amendment, variation, claim, and/or breach that could have significant impact on project in terms of cost and time.

- In liaison with Sourcing organisation ensure that terms and conditions are timely and wisely transferred to subcontractors and suppliers. On certain projects (ex: Turnkey) the PrCM manage sub-contracts and other similar agreements.

- Manage insurance matters in liaison with central insurance organisation.

- Provide at any time, on Management demand, a reliable and understandable contractual and commercial analysis of the project