Contract Manager

2 weeks ago


Modderfontein, South Africa ABB Full time

**Contract Manager**:
**Take your next career step at ABB with a global team that is energizing the transformation of society and industry to achieve a more productive, sustainable future. At ABB, we have the clear goal of driving diversity and inclusion across all dimensions: gender, LGBTQ+, abilities, ethnicity and generations. Together, we are embarking on a journey where each and every one of us, individually and collectively, welcomes and celebrates individual differences.**:
You will be working as Contracts Manager, PAEN - Kusile and will be the part of Process Automation business area for Energy Industries division based in Longmeadow and Kusile, South Africa. In this role you will be reporting to Johan Geldenhuys and will be responsible for leading the provision of contract management services to the Local Business Unit/Product Group or Country, ensuring all contract management activities are executed in accordance with Group/Division/Business Unit directives and instructions including company procedures and the contract management framework

**Your responsibilities**:

- Ensuring the portfolio of contracts in the business follows contract and claiming management methodologies in accordance with internal standard procedures, reviewing and commenting on commercial, technical tender terms and conditions, supporting drafting of purchase orders, contracts and subcontracts, ensuring that relevant (sub) contracts contain appropriate contract terms to protect ABB’s interest, including flow-down of main contract terms
- Developing contract strategy based on ABB’s policies, customer requirements and the overall execution strategy considering risk, pricing, scope, and schedule identifying the contract baseline (including terms and conditions, specifications, drawings, estimate, proposal, schedule and other documents incorporated in the contract) and highlights areas of potential risk
- Ensuring timely and accurate execution of commercial aspects in portfolio of contracts (i.e. payments, claims, variation orders, warranties, provisions, guarantees, etc.), verifying that both parties to the contract have fulfilled their contractual obligations and there are no responsibilities outstanding
- Assessing success of the contract and determining if there are any lessons learned for future contracting, documenting and communicating to all appropriate parties any deficiencies found as part of the closeout process, developing and implementing risk mitigation and opportunity plan in concert with Project Manager and/or Sales Manager or FES Manager
- Establishing and enforcing standard change methodologies in portfolio of contracts to identify changes and quantify the additional time and compensation due to ABB per the contract, defining approval requirements and communicating changes to the customer, enforcing and defending ABB's contractual interests against customer and suppliers, defending and enforcing claims
- Developing the negotiation strategy and supporting negotiations, legal handling formal dispute resolution, litigation and arbitration, notifying and liaises with legal to report major claims and keeps legal updated of any critical development during project execution, seeking advice from legal to draft, negotiate and finalize agreements during the sales and project execution phases
- Supporting drafting of purchase orders, contracts and subcontracts and ensuring that relevant (sub) contracts contain appropriate contract terms to protect ABB’s interest, including flow-down of main contract terms, analyzing prime contract terms to highlight areas of potential opportunity and risk, such as ambiguities, omissions and conflicts, as work proceeds, seeking advice from Legal (Export Control) to ensure accurate handling of all export control matters
- Ensuring contract insurance provisions are adhered to and coordinating with Insurance Risk Management regarding occurrences that may be covered by customer or ABB provided insurance, ensuring (with HR Manager support) that the area of responsibility is organized, staffed, skilled and directed, ensuring close review of all contracts and projects with regard to restrictions on exports, considering countries, customers or products involved and the respective laws and ABB regulations

**Your background**:

- Bachelor’s Degree: B Tech in Civil/Mechanical/Industrial Engineering (mandatory), Honors Degree in Project Management/ Construction management (Advantageous)
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Contracts Manager within the Infrastructure Construction projects (Contractors side) mandatory ( Min project size - ZAR 500 million and above), 10 years’+ overall experience mandatory
- Fluency in both English languages is mandatory

**Benefits**:

- Retirement plan

**More about us**:
ABB Energy Industries is enabling safe, smart and sustainable projects and operations for businesses across the oil, gas, chemicals, life sciences, power generation and water sectors. Dr


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