Overview
Contracts Management Department Manager (Central) Jobs in Riyadh · Saudi Arabia at Hill International (Middle East) Limited
Job Description
The Contracts Management Department Manager – Central is responsible for establishing and leading the contracts management function, ensuring all contracts are administered in full compliance with client requirements, PMM procedures, and Saudi procurement regulations across the program. The role oversees the entire contract lifecycle, including performance, payments, change management, claims, and close-out, while supporting bid evaluations, contract formation, and maintaining approved contractor and supplier frameworks. With extensive experience, the position also focuses on team leadership, capability development, and knowledge transfer, while providing strategic oversight on contract risks, negotiations, and dispute resolution to ensure effective and consistent project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Developing and getting ratified department operating structure and department operating processes and procedures based on the PMM processes and procedures.
- Ensuring Functional compliance for awarded contracts in the areas of:
- Performance
- Guarantees
- Invoicing and payment
- Change management
- Claims
- Preliminary and final handover
- Defects and warranty
- Close-out
- Maintaining functional responsibility for contract administrators assigned to Clusters and Business units.
- Assessing the capability of the Client’s existing contracts staff and recommending appropriate roles and responsibilities.
- Prepare the Contracts Management Section knowledge transfer program, which includes comprehensive on-the-job learning.
- Review change requests and claims and recommend them for approval.
- Supporting other departments with contracts formation and management services (i.e. templates for consultants’ services contracts, General Engineering Services contracts, etc.).
- NWC’s consolidated list of approved contractors, consultants and suppliers.
- Support NWC in reviewing the commercial part of the bid packages.
- Monitor the adherence of contracts to the government and client’s contractual and procurement regulations.
- Ensure proper implementation of project close-out processes and procedures according to PMM.
- Review project suspension and withdrawal requests and recommend for approval.
- Informs themselves of the relevant quality, environmental, safety, and occupational health policies, as well as manuals and procedures within Hill International, and ensures continued compliance with these requirements while employed by Hill.
- Perform other duties as assigned by the line manager/supervisor.
Title: Contracts Management Department Manager (Central)
Company: Hill International (Middle East) Limited
Location: Riyadh · Saudi Arabia
