Commercial Contracts & Project Delivery Manager

Position Summary

Major Accountabilities

• Support project development, delivery planning, governance, scope definition, milestone tracking, stakeholder coordination, and reporting.
• Support procurement strategy, tendering, and contracting for goods, works, and services.
• Support Legal and Procurement with complex commercial and technical agreements under FIDIC and other frameworks.
• Prepare risk assessments and advise on risk allocation, payment mechanisms, warranties, insurance, and performance security.
• Ensure compliance with Saudi law, KAUST governance standards, and international requirements.
• Monitor KPIs, deliverables, cost, schedule, quality, and stakeholder obligations.
• Administer variations, extensions of time, and claims with cost and schedule impact analysis.
• Lead or support negotiations with contractors, consultants, and suppliers.
• Provide commercial input to budgeting, cost forecasting, schedule planning, and project controls.
• Prepare risk registers, commercial dashboards, project status reports, and contract summaries.
• Coordinate with project, technical, procurement, legal, insurance, audit, consultant, and contractor stakeholders.
• Develop commercial procedures and contract administration and project delivery support frameworks.

Qualifications

• A master's degree in engineering, construction law, quantity surveying, project management, or a related discipline is mandatory.
• PMP certification is mandatory.
• An engineering degree or strong engineering project background is strongly preferred.
• Postgraduate qualifications in construction law, contract management, commercial management, or project management are advantageous.
• MRICS, MCIArb, RICS candidate status, or an equivalent certification is advantageous.
• Training in risk management, procurement, project controls, commercial management, or dispute resolution is beneficial.

Experience and Competencies

• Preferably 6–8 years of overall experience in commercial, contracts, project controls, and project delivery roles.
• Experience in large-scale construction, EPC, infrastructure, industrial, research, or technically complex projects.
• Experience with FIDIC and other standard contract forms, variations, claims, extensions of time, and dispute resolution.
• Experience with risk registers, governance, compliance, project reporting, and delivery tracking.
• Strong leadership, organization, negotiation, analytical, communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, and risk analysis software such as OPRA.

Work Environment