PM Contracts and Change Control (Telecom)

Norconsult Telematics; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Norconsult Telematics is seeking an experienced professional to lead contract governance, compliance, and change management for a major telecom program in Saudi Arabia. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, ensure alignment of contractual terms with program objectives, and maintain rigorous change control and reporting.

Responsibilities include managing contract lifecycle, approvals, risk oversight, and stakeholder communications with Legal, Finance, Procurement, Engineering, and PMO.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, Commercial Management, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in contract management, preferably within telecom, ICT, infrastructure, or large-scale technology programs.
• Proven experience in contract administration, governance, compliance, change management, variations, amendments, and contract negotiations.
• Experience managing contracts associated with large and complex telecom/network infrastructure projects is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of contract structures, contractual obligations, commercial terms, SLAs/KPIs, change control, and risk management.
• Experience working with Legal, Finance, Procurement, Engineering, PMO, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Experience in Saudi Arabia and knowledge of contractual practices applicable to telecom infrastructure projects in KSA is preferred.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to operate effectively across multiple organizational levels.
• Excellent reporting and presentation skills with strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent English is mandatory; Arabic is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain contract governance and administration processes throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Coordinate with Legal, Contracts, Finance, Procurement, Engineering, PMO, and other stakeholders on contract drafting and amendments.
• Review execution and implementation of contracts and changes.
• Represent the PMO in contract discussions, negotiations, amendments, renewals, and updates.
• Review contracts to ensure clear scope, responsibilities, deliverables, SLAs, KPIs, milestones, and terms.
• Maintain a contract register covering obligations, milestones, risks, and actions.
• Monitor performance and compliance, identifying deviations, risks, disputes, and exposure.
• Establish and manage a robust change control process covering scope, cost, schedule, and obligations.
• Assess change requests, variations, amendments, and new scope requirements.
• Coordinate with project teams to assess impact on scope, cost, schedule, resources, and risks.
• Lead preparation and review of amendments, change orders, and annexes.
• Maintain change logs and ensure changes are approved and incorporated.
• Develop management reports on status, compliance, changes, risks, and issues.
• Ensure governance documentation, reporting, and records meet audit requirements.

Skills

Governance

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Contract administration

Risk management

Reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Word

Job description

Position Objective

Lead and manage contract governance compliance administration and change management activities for contracts between client Telecom and Specialized and other subsidiaries supporting the Program Ensure contractual obligations scope changes risks and commercial requirements are effectively controlled and aligned with program objectives Report to the Project Control Head on contract management governance compliance and change control activities

Job Description

amp Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain effective contract governance and administration processes throughout the contract lifecycle
• Coordinate with Legal Contracts Finance Procurement Engineering Project and other stakeholders on contract drafting
• review execution and implementation
• Represent the PMO in contract discussions negotiations amendments renewals and updates
• Review contracts to ensure clear scope responsibilities deliverables SLAs KPIs milestones commercial terms and governance requirements
• Maintain a comprehensive contract register covering obligations milestones deliverables approvals risks changes and outstanding actions
• Monitor contractual performance and compliance identifying deviations risks disputes and potential contractual exposure
• Establish and manage a robust contract change control process covering scope cost schedule responsibilities and contractual obligations
• Review and assess change requests variations amendments and new scope requirements
• Coordinate with project and technical teams to assess the impact of changes on scope cost schedule resources risks and contractual obligations
• Lead the preparation and review of contract amendments change orders and annexes required for changes in scope or responsibilities
• Maintain contract change logs and ensure all changes receive appropriate approvals and are formally incorporated into contractual documentation
• Monitor contractual compliance and proactively identify and escalat? legal commercial operational and compliance risks
• Coordinate with Legal Contracts and project stakeholders to resolve contractual claims disputes ambiguities and non-compliance matters
• Maintain a centralized repository of contracts amendments annexes change requests compliance records and supporting documentation
• Develop management reports covering contract status compliance changes risks claims issues and outstanding actions
• Ensure contract governance documentation reporting and records meet program audit and management requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Law, Business Administration, Finance, Engineering, Commercial Management, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in contract management, preferably within telecom, network deployment, ICT, infrastructure, or large-scale technology programs.
• Proven experience in contract administration, governance, compliance, change management, variations, amendments, and contract negotiations.
• Experience managing contracts associated with large and complex telecom/network infrastructure projects is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of contract structures, contractual obligations, commercial terms, SLAs/KPIs, change control, and risk management.
• Experience working with Legal, Finance, Procurement, Engineering, PMO, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Experience in Saudi Arabia and knowledge of contractual practices applicable to telecom infrastructure projects in KSA is preferred.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to operate effectively across multiple organizational levels.
• Excellent reporting and presentation skills with strong proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Fluent English is mandatory; Arabic is an advantage.