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Tender Manager

Decima International
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Manager
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2 days ago
Tender ManagementProcurement ManagementContract ManagementCommercial EvaluationFIDIC ContractsEPC Procurement
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Company Overview

  • Decima International is a professional services company providing project management and controls services to clients in the United States and the Middle East.
  • The company's mission is to become the premier professional services provider across all industry sectors.

Role Overview

  • We are seeking an accomplished and highly experienced Tender Manager to lead tendering and procurement activities for large scale EPC packages on complex construction and mission critical projects in Dubai, UAE.
  • This client facing role requires strong commercial, technical, procurement, and contract management expertise.
  • The ideal candidate will have a background in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Quantity Surveying, with proven experience leading large format EPC procurements, preferably for data center, mission critical, infrastructure, industrial, or comparable large scale pr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the full tender lifecycle for large scale EPC procurement packages, from tender planning and documentation through evaluation, negotiation, recommendation, and award support.
  • Develop and manage tender strategies, procurement plans, tender schedules, bidder lists, evaluation criteria, and commercial submission requirements.
  • Coordinate with project management, engineering, commercial, contracts, cost, procurement, planning, and client teams to ensure tender documents are complete, clear, and aligned with project objectives.
  • Prepare, review, and manage tender documentation, including instructions to tenderers, scope documents, pricing schedules, technical requirements, contract conditions, commercial forms, and evaluation templates.
  • Lead pre tender meetings, tender briefings, clarification processes, site visits, bidder communications, and tender addenda.
  • Ensure tender processes are conducted in a fair, transparent, compliant, and properly documented manner.
  • Manage technical and commercial tender evaluations in coordination with discipline leads, cost teams, legal, procurement, and client stakeholders.
  • Review contractor proposals, commercial submissions, exclusions, assumptions, qualifications, pricing structures, schedules, and contract deviations.
  • Lead tender clarification meetings, commercial negotiations, and alignment sessions with bidders.
  • Prepare tender evaluation reports, bid comparison sheets, recommendations for award documents, and procurement decision summaries.
  • Ensure tender and procurement activities comply with FIDIC based contract principles, client procurement governance, internal policies, and applicable project requirements.
  • Support the development, review, and negotiation of EPC contracts, including contract terms, risk allocation, payment terms, variations, claims provisions, warranties, bonds, insurances, and performance obligations.

Required Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in tender management, procurement management, contracts management, commercial management, quantity surveying, or EPC procurement within large scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission critical projects.
  • Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or a related technical/commercial field.
  • Proven experience leading at least 3 large format EPC procurements for data center or comparable large scale projects.
  • Strong knowledge of FIDIC contracts, tendering procedures, procurement governance, contract conditions, commercial evaluation, and EPC procurement requirements.
  • Experience managing tender documentation, bidder communications, tender clarifications, commercial evaluations, negotiations, and award recommendations.
  • Strong ability to review technical and commercial proposals, pricing schedules, exclusions, assumptions, qualifications, deviations, and contract risks.
  • Experience coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, including engineering, project management, cost control, planning, legal, contracts, procurement, and client representatives.
  • Strong understanding of construction procurement, EPC contracting models, contract risk allocation, commercial terms, variations, claims, bonds, insurances, warranties, and payment mechanisms.
  • Ability to identify tender risks, commercial gaps, pricing inconsistencies, scope omissions, and contractual exposure.
  • Excellent written and verbal English fluency.
  • Strong communication, negotiation, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strong analytical and organizational skills with excellent attention to detail.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working on data center, hyperscale, mission critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large scale commercial building projects.
  • Experience working in a PMC, owner's representative, consultant, client side procurement, or developer side commercial environment.
  • Previous experience working in Dubai, the UAE, or the wider GCC region.
  • Master's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Procurement, or a related field.
  • Professional certifications or memberships such as MRICS, RICS, CIPS, PMP, FIDIC certification, AACE, or equivalent.
  • Strong knowledge of UAE/GCC procurement practices, contractor markets, authority requirements, and regional construction delivery models.
  • Experience using procurement, contract management, cost management, or document control platforms such as Aconex, Procore, Oracle Primavera Cloud, SAP, or similar systems.
  • Arabic language capability is preferred but not required.

Position Details

  • Location (On site): Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  • Position: Tender Manager
  • Position Classification: Salary based full time hours

Equal Opportunity

  • Decima International is an Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to the safety and well being of all.
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, medical condition, marital status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, mental or physical disability

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