Senior Contracts Engineer at Prime Spectrum Nigeria

Job Details

• Ensure that company’s Contractual Policies and applicable laws and regulations are adhered to, especially related to ethics and transparency. 
• Ensure that procurement Contracts and procedures comply with the standards of the company and the agreements with the partners. 
• Ensure the application and respect of the procedures in the tender process.
• Work closely with the DUET counterpart to create the contracts dossier, develop a clear definition of contractual responsibilities and discuss the agenda including: ▪ Validation of contracts strategy ▪ Negotiation and analysis of commercial bids
• Participation in recommendations to award 
• Adapt standard and template documents to local conditions Provide professional advice and guidance to all contract owners/entities with respect to contractual matters Liaise with C&P Methods/planning/market and line Manager for timely reporting (not limited to validate and record of saving, Agora) and statistics matters.
• Prepare and maintain an up-to-date list of qualified contractors/suppliers/potential tenders/contracts with updated information in order to perform market studies; analyze and assess all possible answers from the market Participate to the validation of the contracts strategy through: ▪ Attending Contracts Committee Meetings, common recommendation with duet
• Pre-qualifying bidders
• Defining target prices
• Defining criteria for evaluation.
• Establish CFT commercial documents
• Prepare and send out the dossiers of pre-consultation and Standard or Complex invitations to bid
• Verify the alignment with Ethics, H3SEQ clauses, Company rules, Procedures, Instructions and applicable legislation when issuing all technical contracts and when drafting contractual and commercial terms and conditions
• Verify the Terms & Conditions (standard, general and financial)
• Compose contracts from standard contracts or without standard contract and create outline agreements.
• Conduct the Terms & Conditions bid analysis and negotiation for the best interest of TUCN Conduct the commercial bid analysis and negotiation thereby creating a clear definition of responsibilities and documents together with the DUET Take the leading role in recommendations to award through contracts Committee with common recommendation with DUET.
• Ensures that own contracts are created and managed in UNISUP and AGORA, ensure effective use of tools and systems (Ariba, NIPEX, REX+, AGORA) for optimum productivity. 
• Prepare files for the settlement of lawsuits in relation with the juridical, insurance and financial department 
• Monitor contractor’s performance with Duet, promoting and attending service quality meetings, claims, amendments and contract renewal discussions with contractor and manage and maintain a network with Stakeholders such as NAPIMS, NCD, Department of Petroleum Resources, etc.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• A degree in Engineering, Management or Social Sciences (preferably Supply Chain) 
• Membership of relevant professional bodies in the Supply Chain and in Operational functions will be an added advantage. 
• Up to 5 years’ experience in oil well construction activities of which 3 should be in contract administration. 
• Demonstrable general knowledge and understanding of commercial, legal and insurance issues affecting the company in general. 
• Good command of English language and excellent communication skills. 
• Main Personal Abilities: Basic Human Relations, Problem Solving, team player and planning/organizing/coordinating /controlling
• -effective use of tools and systems (Ariba, NIPEX, REX+, AGORA)