OPF Project Contract Specialist

Our client, a leading organization in the Oil and Gas sector, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is seeking an experienced OPF Project Contract Specialist to join their dynamic team on a contract basis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensures and promotes compliance with Company policies, standards, procedures, and contractual obligations.
• Closely works with Contracts and/or Legal function to help review and assess the liabilities present in Subcontracts or Supplier Contracts in order to understand contractual risks and lead the supplier T&C negotiations.
• Execute supplier contracts to implement the chosen business strategy of the project effectively, maximizing contractual protection to the Company through client/prime contract back-to-back flow downs.
• Assists on the drafting, revisions, negotiations and approval process of global and/or strategic supplier contracts for the assigned suppliers/packages.
• Collaborate with the Contracts & Legal Department, Finance Department (including Tax), HSE, Sourcing & Procurement, Operations (or any other department/function) as appropriate, to ensure contractual and commercial risks and exposures are clearly identified, analyzed and properly addressed.
• Participate in and contribute in all execution PLG and CME gates where applicable.
• Proposes, drafts, revision, negotiations, approval process and implements agreement templates, terms and conditions, and contracts standards appendices, processes, practices, procedures and guidelines for the assigned suppliers and/or packages.
• Finalize contracts for signature once all the stakeholders and parties are in agreement.
• Draft and review of letters, change orders and other claims not limited to LD, milestone etc. addressed to or received from suppliers/subcontractors.
• Familiar with critical conditions, not limited to e.g changes, delay, suspension and termination
• Negotiates and closes contractual disputes for the assigned package/suppliers, being responsible for negotiation strategies, resolution and follow up in coordination with the Project Contract Manager and the Supply Chain Management teams.
• Review and discuss proposed draft contract with all relevant stakeholders to ensure compliance with tax, HSE, and all other functions involved.
• Benchmark performance and audit suppliers with assistance from key stakeholders.
• Provide contracts guidance and support to Sourcing Specialists.
• Ensures and monitors compliance with all Company policies, standards and procedures, and contractually assumed obligations.
• Contributes to the legal department's knowledge management program by capturing and sharing lessons learned from his/her legal matters and making useful legal content available on the Legal KM Portal.
• Timely upload and manage project contracts through life cycles on the Company processing/repository systems.
• Participate/contribute to the function/business unit's objectives related to supplier contracts.