Contract Manager

About this opportunity

Contract Manager responsible for overseeing the contractual aspects of construction projects, ensuring compliance with agreed terms, mitigating risks, and supporting project delivery. The role supports successful project delivery by maintaining contract compliance, managing change and claims, controlling contractual risk, and ensuring that project decisions, notices and records are timely, clear and defensible.

This role is site-based and requires staying in Sines during the workweek. No rotation or fly-in/fly-out arrangement applies.

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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Supporting Business Unit Directors in delivering business objectives.
• Positively engaging with Customers and developing, growing and maintaining Customer relationships.
• Delivering high-quality services and ensuring that deliverables meet Customers’ requirements.
• Monitoring compliance with contract conditions, including notices, deliverables, programmes, securities, insurances, warranties, approvals and reporting requirements
• Coordinating the contract assurance process, including compliance reviews, audits, action tracking and close-out
• Supporting the preparation and review of procurement and contract documents, schedules, amendments and terms and conditions, with legal and procurement input where required
• Preparing contract documents and drafting terms and conditions
• Drafting and issuing contractual correspondence, notices, recommendations and instructions within delegated authority
• Maintaining clear and auditable records of contractual communications, decisions, approvals and changes
• Preparing, reviewing and assessing contractual claims, including extensions of time, delay and disruption, additional payment, loss and expense
• Managing change control and variation processes, including scope definition, quotations, approvals, valuation, implementation and record keeping
• Reviewing payment applications and supporting payment assessment and certification in accordance with the contract and delegated authority
• Maintaining contractual and commercial risk registers, identifying emerging risks and recommending mitigation measures
• Reviewing proposed subcontracting strategies and key subcontractor appointments where Employer approval or consent is required
• Leading or supporting the negotiation and award of contracts, amendments, settlements and variations within delegated authority
• Supporting dispute avoidance, escalation and resolution, including the preparation of position papers and referral documentation where required
• Leading contract and commercial meetings as appropriate, recording actions and driving timely resolution
• Monitoring contractual close-out, including final account information, defects, warranties, bonds, as-built information and outstanding obligations
• Advising Directors promptly of any issues that have arisen, or that might arise, on projects; in particular those that might impact on Gleeds professional indemnity (PI) insurance.

As a Gleeds team member, you will have access to:

• Opportunities to develop and grow your career
• Employee Assistance Programme

Who we’re looking for:

Experience, Knowledge and Key Skills

• Broad spectrum of technical knowledge relating to Contracts Management.
• Experience managing contracts for large-scale construction projects in Europe, including Data Centres
• Excellent communication skills - both oral and written.
• Methodical way of thinking and approach to work.
• Excellent problem-solving, negotiating, financial and numeracy skills.
• Sound ICT skills, with a high proficiency in MS Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work as part of a team .
• High level of English.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree

A world of opportunity

Gleeds is a place to be part of something bigger. We take pride in our diverse and supportive culture that empowers you to make a difference while creating connections with brilliant people – colleagues and clients alike. Enjoy doing work that shapes our collective future, while steering your own journey in a trusting environment. Benefit from our rich heritage and global opportunities as you construct a career with purpose.

With over 75 offices across the globe, you’ll become part of a truly global team that isn’t restricted by borders. We welcome new perspectives and ideas but above all, we believe that quality relationships sit at the heart of good business. We strive to be the people that seek to understand and bring people together. Wherever we are in the world, we’re committed to the success of our people, clients and communities – giving everyone a safer and more sustainable place to live, work and thrive.

Our values underpin what we stand for and how we work:

• Professionalism with personality
• Excellence with humility
• Innovation with agility

We’re an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications regardless of age, disability, marital status, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status or gender.

We recognise the importance of work/life balance and agree flexible working arrangements to suit each individual.

Gleeds is a Great Place to Work certified employer.

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