Contracts Manager
Our client based in France and looking for a Contracts Manager.  As the Contracts Manager you will have extensive experience working on EPC projects.  As the right candidate for this role you will have a minimum of15 years in EPC type contracts engineering and administration for industrial projects. The contract manager will be involved with activities deal with worldwide Contract Engineering and Administration but also Claims Management (including Contractor and Company claims and disputes) as detailed below: Provide support for all contract and procurement activities required by the designated capital project(s), Be able to advise and execute contractual documentation on more complex forms of CFT’s: CCFT, OBE/OBT, FEED+, etc. Develop the CFT package: commercial structure, contract terms, etc. Launch CFT and manage contractual qualification and exception review and negotiation, Evaluate commercial aspects of the bids and recommend award, Claim Preventive awareness (contract management methods, tendering stage and early execution stage), Support project team to obtain relevant approvals and/or to go through any kind of gates.   Senior referent for some Projects contract engineering: Participate in defining and coordinating the contract methods for the entity (Contract toolbox, Competence requirement for contract engineers, expertise requirement, evaluation quiz...), Participate in coaching the contract engineers of the entity (Assistance, advice, training...), Ensure Governance is followed for Contracts process on projects of his/her perimeter (CFT, RTA, approvals), Ensure recurrent contacts with the contract engineers/managers of the Projects of his/her perimeter, Represent different types of Project Reviews for the contractual subjects.   Coordination with legal entity Participate to the overall coordination with TGP/JUR/PJE: information sharing, coordination of actions for the on-going projects of his/her perimeter… Contribute to ensure coherence between PJE, JUR/PJE and Project’s needs.  As required, the incumbent may be requested to be the Single point of contacts for some designated projects (SPOC) (all branches E&P, RC, GRP).
Assist and/or participate in Claim Management or Counterclaim process: Analysis and review of existing Contracts/Claims: provide expertise support to projects for existing Contracts/Claims and corresponding resolution (contracts execution phase / close out phase): Advise and direct the projects for “on the spot requests” with regards to management of claims, Investigate and assess merit of major claim/dispute, Provide higher understanding and recommendations for building the Claim dossiers and corresponding settlement, Assist the project in drafting correspondences and notices to Contractors. Contribute continuously to Contracts REX/Lessons Learnt consolidation. For each of the dossier, is starting by screening the existing REX and when completing a dossier preparing main lessons learnt to be shared with other contract engineers and to be archived.

Qualifications
Must have relevant Contracts experience and qualifications.