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Contract Expert
Contract Management and Administration
Baghdad Governorate
Description
This position develops, coordinates, and administers contracts of services for one or more defined operating entities within the Company. Negotiates, extends, and renegotiates contracts as appropriate. Serves as a primary point of liaison with contractors, monitors existing contracts for compliance with terms and conditions.
Job Duties:
- Negotiate contract agreements for services.
- Assess contractor performance to identify the need for amendments of existing contracts.
- Prepare and edit contracts between the company and potential clients.
- Preparation of Contract documents, amendments, variations in accordance with approved company policy
- Keep track of the Value of Work Done for each contract
- Ensure the timely issuing of Invoices
- Monitor existing contracts and initiate the renewal contracts as required
- Approve or deny requests for services outside the terms of the contract, and write amendments to cover additional services.
- Evaluates or monitors contractor performance to determine necessity for amendments or extensions of contracts, and compliance to contractual obligations.
- Analyses and approves or rejects internal and/or contractor requests for deviations from contract specifications.
- Analyses price proposals, financial reports, and other data to determine reasonableness of prices; reviews and interprets contract provisions to achieve cost efficiencies and reductions where feasible.
- Serves as a primary liaison with contracting representatives to ensure compliance with contract specifications and resolution of problems and issues, as they arise; arbitrates claims or complaints occurring in performance of contracts.
- Continually monitors and evaluates contractor performance against contract specifications, and recommends appropriate remedial action as necessary.
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
- May assist and/or provide input into the formulation, development, and/or revision of operating policies, procedures, and strategies for the organization, as appropriate.
- Serve as the main liaison with outside contracting representatives.
- Research regulations to guarantee contracts are updated and in compliance with laws.
- Coordinate with clients to guarantee terms of contracts are fulfilled in compliance with the contract terms and regulations.
- Prepare and manage the issuance of contracts.
- Preparation of correspondence between Company and contractors.
- Analysis and negotiation of claims and maintaining claims register.
- Contract Close out.
Requirements
Education:
- Bachelor. in Computer, Mechanical, Electrical, Telecom Engineering or related.
Years of Experience
- A minimum 7 Years’ experience in telecommunication/ISP or network operations industry. With 3 years contract management experience including managing large organization.
Knowledge
- Very Good Command of English and Arabic- Written and Spoken.
- Very Good Command Microsoft Office (MS Word, MS Excel, PowerPoint).
- Very Good understanding in all Business Operations.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
- Ability to resolve customer complaints and concerns.
- Knowledge of contract documents and specifications.
- Ability to analyze and interpret financial data and prepare financial reports, statements and/or projections.
- Ability to analyze and solve problems.
- Knowledge of contract rules and regulations.
- Ability to make administrative/procedural decisions and judgments.
- Organizing and coordinating skills.
- Creative cost analysis skills.
- Knowledge of costing and pricing methodology.
- Skill in the negotiation and establishment of contractual arrangements for goods and services.
- Knowledge of contractor compliance issues and procedures, as applicable to a public institution.
- Ability to assess contract compliance and service quality.
