Senior Contracts Administrator / Commercial Lead - Tier 2 Contractor

Amida Recruit AU; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amida Recruit AU is seeking a Commercial Lead / Contracts Manager to join our growing Sydney team. You will lead the commercial function across multiple projects, guiding a team of 3–4 Senior/Contracts Administrators and grads.

You will provide contractual and commercial advice on defence, remediation and construction projects, manage stakeholder relationships, and drive contract administration excellence within a permanent full-time role.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Contracts Management, Engineering, Construction Management or similar.
• Minimum 7 to 15 years+ experience in a similar role.
• Understanding of project administration and project controls.
• Knowledge of risks and limitations across legal agreements and requirements.
• Ability to work as part of a team as well as autonomously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain stakeholder relationships.
• Superior analytical skillset and time management skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite with strong Excel knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Commercial review of contracts, MSA’s and Agreements.
• Manage all reporting and submission.
• Instrument and maintain the subcontract management process.
• Monitor and improve contracts administration process.
• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure commercial requirements are reached.
• Document control management.
• Assist with HSEQ and Project Managers to ensure compliance with management systems.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Excel

Contract negotiation

Communication skills

Team leadership

Education

Tertiary qualification in Contracts Management, Engineering, Construction Management or similar

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

• Established, national market leading national Tier 2 Contractor
• Extensive pipeline in projects across Infrastructure, Industrial, Buildings & Defence sectors
• Excellent career progression and fantastic culture

• Established, national market leading national Tier 2 Contractor
• Extensive pipeline in projects across Infrastructure, Industrial, Buildings & Defence sectors
• Excellent career progression and fantastic culture

Great opportunity to work with an established national Contractor.

A market leading Tier 2 contractor with a proven track record of successfully delivering complex projects, our client is now seeking a Commercial Lead / Contracts Manager to join their growing business in Sydney. It could also be a Senior Contracts Administrator stepping up too.

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you will be responsible for leading the commercial function across projects and provide understanding to the project team while managing a team of 3 to 4 Senior / Contracts Administrators and a few grads.

The role will be providing contractual and commercial advice, dealing with disputes, adjudication, trouble shooting on projects, interrogating commercial contracts, understanding project profitability and regional corporate overheads etc. The role may or may not deliver projects, could be more dipping in and out as well as running the larger scaled specialised construction projects.

The Commercial Lead / Contracts Manager will run about $130m to $150m of work per annum that the team is dealing within defence, remedial and construction (fit-out, refurb, newbuilds, upgrades etc). Individual projects from smaller up to $15m but sometimes up to $50m-$75m.

Candidates can come from a tier 1, 2 or 3 background.

Years of experience:

7-15 years +

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Commercial review of contracts, MSA’s and Agreements
• Manage all reporting and submission
• Instrument and maintain the subcontract management process
• Monitor and improve contracts administration process
• Liaise with stakeholders to ensure commercial requirements are reached
• Document control management
• Assist with HSEQ and Project Managers to ensure compliance with management systems

Qualifications and Requirements:

• Tertiary qualification in Contracts Management, Engineering, Construction Management or similar
• Minimum 7 to 15 years+ experience in a similar role
• Understanding of project administration and project controls
• Knowledge of risks and limitations across legal agreements and requirements
• Ability to work part of a team as well as autonomously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain stakeholder relationships
• Superior analytical skillset and time management skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Experience with Microsoft Office suite with strong Excel knowledge

This is a permanent full-time position providing a great opportunity to work with a successful and growing organisation who offer challenging work and the potential for career progression.