Contracts Manager - Data Centre

Currie & Brown; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 180,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Currie & Brown is seeking a Contracts Manager to join our team in Abu Dhabi with Data Centre experience. You will review plans and contracts, manage the contract lifecycle, and maintain client relationships to deliver commercial reporting.

The role requires strong writing, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills to coordinate with project teams and external partners. Responsibilities include negotiating terms, establishing delivery schedules, assessing risks, and ensuring deadlines are met

Qualifications

• Proven work experience as a Contract Manager.
• Basic knowledge of legal requirements involved with contracts.
• Excellent writing skills and keen attention to detail.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to work with staff, managers and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Review plans, specifications and contracts to ensure correct equipment, material and subcontractor services are ordered or purchased.
• Maintain client relationships and deliver commercial and contracts reports according to the clients’ requirements.
• Manage the contract lifecycle.
• Determine or negotiate contract terms and conditions, award supplier contracts or recommend contract awards.
• Review and update existing contracts.
• Explain terms and conditions to managers and relevant parties.
• Establish delivery schedules, monitor progress, and contact clients and suppliers to resolve problems.
• Analyze potential risks involved with specific contract terms.
• Work with project managers, architects, engineers, owners and others to meet project goals.
• Ensure all deadlines and conditions described on contracts are met.
• Maintain organized system of physical and digital records.

Skills

Contract management

Legal knowledge

Excellent writing

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Education

Degree in Quantity Surveyor or Equivalent

Job description

Currie & Brown is looking for a Contracts Manager to join our team in Abu Dhabi with Data Centre experience while working with a key client.

What will you be doing?

• Review plans, specifications and contracts to ensure the correct equipment, material and subcontractor services are ordered and/or purchased
• Maintaining Client relationships and delivering commercial and contracts reports according to the clients’ requirements.
• Manage the contract lifecycle
• Determine or negotiate contract terms and conditions, award supplier contracts or recommend contract awards
• Review and update existing contracts
• Explain terms and conditions to managers and relevant parties
• Establish delivery schedules, monitor progress, and contact clients and suppliers to resolve problems
• Helping develop and implement Commercial Strategies
• Analyze potential risks involved with specific contract terms
• Work with project managers, architects, engineers, owners and others to make sure project goals are met
• Ensure all deadlines and conditions described on contracts are met.
• Maintain organized system of physical and digital records

What do you need?

• Proven work experience as a Contract Manager
• Basic Knowledge of legal requirements involved with contracts
• Excellent writing skills
• Keen attention to detail, with an ability to spot errors
• Strong analytical and organizational skills
• Ability to work with varying seniority levels, including staff, managers and external partners
• Degree in Quantity Surveyor or Equivalent.

Our corporate values

At Currie & Brown, we know that when it comes to a good idea, it doesn't matter where it comes from. That's why we take a collaborative, open-door approach to running our business. Our people, from apprentices to senior management, make our company what it is. Everyone in the Currie & Brown family, no matter how experienced, contributes to our success in their own way, and we have fun doing it.

Unlike other companies, we focus on the long term and deliver on our commitments. We take a compassionate and inclusive approach to our work and always invest in the future of our people. Whether it's the desire to work internationally, the urge to develop, or even the curiosity to work in a new sector, we are there for our people at every stage, offering guidance, support and the structure to achieve. That's why so many of us have been building successful careers here for so long.

With the backing of our parent company, we are an independent company. Our people are able to make quick and flexible decisions, and work directly with some of the world's best partner brands in our industry through Dar Group.

This mix of our scale and size, our partnerships and our people makes us a true industry leader around the world.