Operations / Chartering Manager at Adexen

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead a passionate team of unit managers, to provide exceptional service to the clients. Manage the client and contractual relationships ensuring compliance and company policies are adhered to while maximizing commercial performance.
• Ensure all operations are carried out in an appropriate, cost-effective way and improve operational management systems, processes, and best practices.
• Examine financial data and use them to improve profitability.
• Analyze the contract terms and identify areas of possible risks and opportunities related to the application of contract clauses. Quantify the risk value and provide mitigating contractual language/article project-related solutions to minimize the risk.
• Negotiate contracts with customers with compelling arguments.
• Safeguard company’s contract objectives.
• Manage and coordinate contract administration activities, providing contract administration resources to bids and projects, ensuring that all aspects of the contract during the bidding and execution phase are addressed with the objective of contributing to maximize project revenues.
• Assist with the bid handover and booking process and ensure that the necessary commercial information is understood and disseminated to the extended project team.
• Establish and maintain the project variation control system and managing negotiations in line with contract requirements.
• Ensure compliance with the project-specific contractual administration requirements.
• Provide advice, assistance and guidance to management, project managers and functions on project specific contractual matters.
• Ensure commercial risks are identified and managed across the project scopes of work by controlling the overall project risk and opportunity review and reporting process.
• Support periodic client and internal reporting and performance presentations.
• Help the organization’s processes remain legally compliant. Formulate strategic and operational objectives.
• Review business performance and ensure the delivery of key financial targets in line with management and performance reporting. Demonstrate commercial value to your direct reports, line manager and leadership teams, in line with our vision, values and business strategy.
• Provide management direction for all marine operations and liaison with contractors, contract holders, and consultants.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Minimum of a Master’s degree in Business Administration preferably MBA.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience with the last five years in a leadership role.
• Must have Certifications from CILT, CIPS and other relevant bodies.
• Project Management certification (PRINCE2, PMI) would be an added advantage.
• Excellent record of driving organizational change from inception to conclusion.
• Excellent knowledge of Information Technology is required.
• Knowledge of transport and logistics management, contract management, budget planning, and execution and management of information system.
• Must possess strong leadership skill.
• Ability to deliver result in a timely manner.