Senior Contracts Engineer

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SENIOR CONTRACT SPECIALIST </p>
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Our client is currently looking for a Senior Contract Specialist in Aberdeen. The successful candidate would be required to deliver contracts support for the local IRM portfolio. The role requires a candidate to have a strong balance of commercial and contractual experience. The remit will also include leading a team of contracts resources including allocating/ monitoring workload and providing coaching and mentoring support.</p>
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Job description:</p>
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The Senior Contract Specialist shall satisfactorily protect the contractual and commercial interest of the company in respect of the project in all of its activities and transactions, ensuring that all company policies and procedures are adhered to. Also needs to pursue and maximize the commercial opportunities as well as issue project reports accurately that shall reflect the current commercial status of the project and the likely outcome at completion. </p>
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Tasks and Responsibility:</p>
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Commercial </p>
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General: tasks will be performed as part of a tender team and in close cooperation with Commercial function of GBU Legal Subsea. The role is specific for each tender, customer or business area and may vary depending on the scope, duration and complexity of each tender. </p>
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Assist in the detailed legal review of Client proposed draft of contract, including all relevant parts of exhibits as included in the bid invitation. </p>
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The review should take into account advice and experience gained during execution of previous projects. Where possible, the review should identify and assess the potential difficulties or roadblocks that may arise when administrating the Contract during the execution phase such as Change Orders, Schedule, reimbursable scope, rely-upon, Client assigned items, nominated vendors, coordination with client, etc. </p>
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Provide input on any contractual and commercial risk identified during the review process and ensure this is raised to the tender team (and management, when necessary) so that the risk will be taken into account in tender evaluation. </p>
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Assist in negotiations with clients and joint venture partners as needed. </p>
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When requested, assist sourcing/procurement to address contract, legal, commercial and insurance issues related to subcontractors or major suppliers during tender phase, with a particular focus to ensure flow down of Client contract terms to subcontractors. </p>
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Project </p>
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General: Project tasks by the contracts resource will be performed as part of a project team, in close cooperation with all other project functions and with the Legal GBU Subsea Projects function. Tasks may vary depending on the scope and complexity of each project. Additionally, the contracts resource may be assigned to act as