Senior Contracts Manager

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At AECOM, we’re currently recruiting a Senior Contracts Manager to join our team in Dublin.

The Senior Contracts Manager will be based on site for three days per week, with the remaining two days worked remotely.

This is a key leadership role where you’ll provide commercial and contractual expertise across major projects, supporting delivery from tender stage through to final account.

What you’ll do

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include, but won’t be limited to:

• Ensure full alignment with the Contracting Entity’s Contract Management standards, confirming compliance with the selected contract suite (e.g. NEC) and the overall programme requirements.

• Provide assurance that contract administration activities fully comply with contractual terms and Contract Management standards, identifying, managing, and reporting any instances of non-compliance.

• Manage and develop effective commercial relationships with Contractors and Consultants, promoting collaborative ways of working and continuous improvement in the delivery of works and services.

• Review and advise on draft contracts to ensure they are fit for purpose and appropriately tailored to individual projects, coordinating input from legal, technical, and financial advisors as required.

• Lead contractual negotiations and provide commercial and contractual guidance to Project Managers, Service Managers, and Programme Directors.

• Review and approve subcontractors and subcontract documentation in accordance with contractual requirements.

• Certify payments, including detailed assessment of Defined Costs under NEC Option C and Option E contracts.

• Audit Contractors’ and Consultants’ accounts to ensure costs are accurately recorded and claimed in line with the contract.

• Review cost forecasts prepared by Contractors or Consultants and assess pain/gain share mechanisms for NEC Option C and Option D contracts.

• Undertake delay damages assessments and calculations where required.

• Develop and implement category- and programme-level contract management strategies, and review and approve individual contract management plans.

• Set KPI targets within NEC Incentive Schedules and monitor Contractor and Consultant performance against agreed measures.

• Establish and maintain KPI libraries for assigned categories and programmes.

• Review and approve performance evaluations for Contractors and Consultants and oversee the development and implementation of performance improvement plans where required.

• Build, manage, and support a team of Contract Administrators, fostering strong collaboration across the wider project team.

• Review Compensation Event submissions, including Early Warning notifications and quotations, and provide recommendations to the Project Manager and/or Service Manager.

• Review applications for payment to ensure compliance with contractual terms and conditions.

• Provide assurance of RFI and RFT tender documentation, including conditions of contract, amendments, and Contracting Entity–specific Z clauses.

• Provide oversight and assurance of tendering and evaluation processes through to the appointment of Contractors and Consultants.

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

We are seeking a highly experienced professional with a strong background in our primary infrastructure markets, including aviation.

As the successful candidate, you will bring the following qualifications and experience:

• Postgraduate qualification, ideally in Project Management, Construction, Engineering or Quantity Surveying

• Extensive experience in contract management, including a minimum of three years’ experience working with NEC contracts

• A strong track record delivering infrastructure and/or aviation projects

• Proven capability in performance monitoring, claims management and commercial reporting

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For further information about the role, reach out to the recruiter on LinkedIn Colum Calnan.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity 

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [email protected]  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.