Senior Contracts Leader - Central Operations

Hill International, Inc.; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Hill International, Inc. in Riyadh seeks a Contracts Management Department Manager – Central to establish and lead the contracts management function in Saudi Arabia, ensuring compliance with client requirements, PMM procedures, and local procurement regulations across the program.

You will oversee the full contract lifecycle including performance, payments, change orders, claims, and close-out. The role emphasizes team leadership, capability development, and knowledge transfer, with strategic

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited university.
• Minimum 20 years’ experience in contract management, including overall responsibility for contract management on large-scale projects.
• Experience with Kingdom of Saudi Arabia procurement law.
• Direct experience in workload distribution, execution of work and personnel management. Formation and administration of (sub) contracts: pre-qualification, compilation of bid requests, receipt of bids, bid evaluation, award, monitoring contractor performance, back charges, resolution of claims and disputes.
• Thorough knowledge of prime contracts management administration as well as (sub) contract formation and administration, execution office and field procedures and documents relating to a multi-discipline construction project.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both Arabic and English.
• Preferable Experience of working in KSA.

Responsibilities

• Develop and ratify department operating structure and processes based on PMM.
• Ensure compliance for awarded contracts in performance, guarantees, invoicing and payments, change management, claims, handover, defects and close-out.
• Maintain responsibility for contract administrators across clusters and business units.
• Assess capabilities of client’s contracts staff and assign roles and responsibilities.
• Prepare a knowledge transfer program including on-the-job learning for Contracts Management.
• Review change requests and claims and recommend approvals.
• Support other departments with contract formation and management services (templates for consultants' services contracts, etc.).
• Maintain approved contractors, consultants and suppliers lists and monitor contract adherence to regulations.

Skills

Contract management

Leadership

Negotiation

Risk management

Arabic language

English language

Procurement

Education

Bachelor’s in engineering

Job description

Hill International, Inc. in Riyadh seeks a Contracts Management Department Manager – Central to establish and lead the contracts management function in Saudi Arabia, ensuring compliance with client requirements, PMM procedures, and local procurement regulations across the program.

You will oversee the full contract lifecycle including performance, payments, change orders, claims, and close-out. The role emphasizes team leadership, capability development, and knowledge transfer, with strategic