Contract Specialist

Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Equivalent.

Experience

• Minimum eight (8) year experience in Contract Award & Administration along with Planning, Control/Operations.

Skills & Competencies

• Good written and verbal communication skills and facilitation skills.
• Analytical, creative/innovative problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks with appropriate priority.
• Self-starter/self-management/self-drive and ability to work without close monitoring.
• Resilient under pressure (both internal and external).
• Strong ability to deal with competing priorities and complex issues.
• Expert Practical knowledge/application of MS Office tools like Excel, Power Point and other standard programmes for contract administration, including but not limited to SAP.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Prepare, manage and administer the contracts EPRS Division. This includes managing the entire tendering process, continuously updating the technical specifications and requirements, enforcing contractual requirements, monitoring contractors performance and applying relevant contract provisions and Liquidated Damages where applicable.
• Tender strategies, and all other related documents related to “Tendering and Contracting” process of EPRS Division.
• Monitor contractor performance by following periodic progress reports.
• Liaise with all relevant parties to ensure full contractual compliance.
• Enforcing contractual clauses Liquidated Damages etc. to ensure that the contractors delivery is as defined in the Scope of work.
• Responsible for timely and quality execution and analysis of routine and ad-hoc reports of contractors performance, including KPIs related to monitored process.
• Proactive identification of process issues related to contractual compliance and anomalies, risks and bottlenecks, including their root cause analysis, resolution proposals, support in preparation of corresponding solutions and mitigation plans.
• Carrying out necessary review and analysis of contract documents, including data and information gathering and provision of expert’s comments and insights.
• Identification of improvement opportunities, to revise scope of work & technical specifications for future contracts to ensure optimization of resources.
• Active involvement in various planning (e.g. cost and budgeting) and related activities within contract management; create, gather/consolidate and where required present associated information and insights to the management.