Contract Manager

As a Contract Manager, you will play a critical role in the successful delivery of large-scale infrastructure and data centre projects by managing the commercial and contractual aspects of complex construction contracts. Working closely with project teams, procurement, legal, contractors, and suppliers, you will ensure contractual compliance, mitigate commercial risk, and support the delivery of projects on time and within budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the full lifecycle of construction and infrastructure contracts, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, company policies, and applicable legislation.
• Act as the primary commercial point of contact for assigned projects, providing contractual advice and support to internal stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with contractors, consultants, suppliers, and project teams to support successful project delivery.
• Support procurement activities by providing commercial and contractual input during tendering, bid evaluation, contract negotiation, and contract award.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and administer construction contracts, framework agreements, work orders, and call-off agreements.
• Lead the commercial management of contracts, including variations, change orders, compensation events, claims, extensions of time, and dispute resolution.
• Identify, assess, and manage contractual and commercial risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation measures are implemented throughout the project lifecycle.
• Monitor contractor performance against contractual requirements and ensure commercial obligations are delivered in line with project objectives.
• Support project controls by monitoring commercial performance, project budgets, forecasts, commitments, and cost reporting.
• Ensure all contractual documentation, notices, correspondence, and commercial records are maintained accurately and in accordance with company governance.
• Work collaboratively with Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Project Management, and Cost Management teams to ensure consistent contract administration and commercial best practice.
• Identify opportunities to improve commercial performance, contract processes, and supply chain efficiency across infrastructure and data centre projects.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, compliance, integrity, and health and safety across all commercial activities.

• Demonstrable experience in Contract Management within large-scale infrastructure, mission-critical facilities, or data centre construction projects.
• Bachelor's degree in Law, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Strong experience administering complex construction contracts throughout the project lifecycle.
• Proven expertise in contract change management, claims management, variations, commercial negotiations, and dispute avoidance.
• Strong understanding of construction contract forms such as NEC and/or FIDIC. Experience with EPC, EPCM or Design & Build contracts is highly desirable.
• Sound knowledge of commercial governance, procurement principles, and contract risk management within major capital projects.
• Commercially astute, with experience supporting project cost management, forecasting, financial reporting, and budget control.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence contractors, consultants, and multidisciplinary project teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying commercial risks and opportunities.
• Fluent English is essential. German language skills are advantageous but not essential.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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