Principal Consultant - Contract Management

Turner & Townsend; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 360,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Principal Consultant - Contract Management in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. You will lead contract development, claims management and dispute resolution for major regional projects, applying experience in FIDIC and other standard forms to protect client interests.

Join a team that delivers commercial management excellence across real estate and infrastructure sectors, with a focus on governance, risk, and performance.

Qualifications

• Experience providing contract and claims services in the property sector.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with standard form contracts (FIDIC) and related processes.
• Ability to prepare and support major bid proposals.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert contract and claims management advice to clients.
• Support Subject Matter Experts regionally and contribute to growth.
• Lead dispute avoidance and resolution initiatives on live contracts.
• Deliver high-quality consultancy services on distressed projects.

Skills

Contract management

Dispute resolution

Claims management

FIDIC contracts

Commercial management

Bid proposals

Client-facing

Analytical skills

Education

Quantity surveying, civil engineering or construction management degree

MSc Construction Law or similar desirable (or currently undertaking)

MCIArb, MCIOB, MRICS or FRICS chartered preferred

Job description

Principal Consultant - Contract Management

• Full-time

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over22,000 peoplein more than 60 countries. Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure,energyand natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working inpartnershipmakes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects andprogrammesas we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities includeprogramme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We aremajority-ownedby CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estateservicesand investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premierprogramme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website:www.turnerandtownsend.com

Turner and Townsend Contract Services Team deliver Contract Development,Contract ManagementandDispute ResolutionandClaims ManagementServices across the region. With strong experience in a consultancy or contractor organization, you will have knowledge and demonstrate hands on experience of standard forms ofcontract, claims management, dispute avoidance and/or dispute resolution within the built environment sectors. With a ‘can do’ attitude and commercially astute you will be driven, results oriented with the ability to provide best in class claims and dispute management advice for our clients.

Individuals will have a quantity surveying, commercial management, engineering and/or legal background and have the ability to support our Subject Matter Experts in the region and aid the growth of our high performing Contract Services division.

• Experience in a variety of construction sectors and project type
• Strong commercial management experience on major projects
• Experience of FIDIC and other standard form contracts and the relevant processes and procedures
• Experience of compiling claim reports
• Experience of arbitration and/or litigation processes
• Confident in a client facing environment, with good presentational skills
• Experience of performance forensics, whether from a quantum or delay background
• Application of methodical analytical skills, with a flexible and adaptable approach to service delivery under a number of challenging scenarios
• Experience of providing consultancy services on live contracts and projects in distress an advantage
• Able to prepare and support on major bid proposals

• Quantity surveying, civil engineering or construction management degree
• MSc Construction Law or similar desirable (or currently undertaking)
• MCIArb, MCIOB, MRICS or FRICS chartered preferred

Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrable track record of providing contract and claims services in the property sector.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

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