Contracts Manager - Major Projects (Post Awards)

Contracts Manager - Major Projects (Post Award)
Oakland or San Ramon, CA (hybrid)
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This Contracts Manager will be a part of the first dedicated procurement function for capital projects. This role is responsible for ensuring effective contract execution, compliance, and performance management across large-scale capital projects. This role serves as the primary liaison between internal stakeholders, suppliers, and project teams to drive timely delivery, control costs, mitigate risk, and maintain contractual integrity.

Job Responsibilities

• Manages all post-award activities for multiple major project contracts, including change orders, amendments, renewals, and closeouts
• Monitor supplier performance to ensure compliance with contractual terms, service levels, and safety requirements
• Support creating clear contracts and ensuring thorough documentation, and implementing effective communication and dispute resolution strategies.
• Support developing contract management work process, and enforcing procedures for handling change orders and amendments; ensure all parties agree on adjustments in accordance with contract terms.
• Leads the most complex cross-functional projects and contracts
• Advises senior leadership (internal and external) on contracting strategy and negotiations.
• Negotiates the most complex contract issues independently.
• Leads the effort to identify, analyze, improve existing business processes, or create new ones within the department to meet new goals and objectives.
• Works closely with key stakeholders such as Project Management Director, PMO Director, Engineering Director, and others to ensure alignment.
• Acts as a primary liaison for the contracts team to Legal Department.
• Provides active guidance, support, mentorship and training to less experienced contract management staff.
• Develops and delivers contract management training to all stakeholders.
• Collaborates with other Lines of Business to promote knowledge sharing and use of best practices.
• Experience in major construction project controls, cost estimating, terms and conditions negotiations, and scheduling.
• Subject matter expertise with composition, management, administration, and negotiation of engineering and construction contracts and change orders

• Bachelor’s (BA/BS) degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrated experience in the utilities or infrastructure sectors
• U.S. experience and familiarity with U.S. utility-sector contracting practices.
• Hands-on post-award contract administration.
• Experience leading teams and managing direct reports.
• Nine (9) years of experience in a similar role executing and managing contracts for major heavy civil, pipeline, or industrial construction projects
• Experience in developing and managing complex contracting strategies EPC/CMAR/PDB/DB/GMP.
• Experience with quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) regarding contract documents.
• Ability to apply business knowledge, project management methodologies, and best practices.
• Knowledge of budget and resource allocation and formulation of contracts, bids, agreements, and RFPs.
• Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.

• Master’s degree in Construction Management or related discipline
• Certification such as one of the following or related:
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Program Management Professional (PgMP)
  • Certified Cost Engineer (CCE) certificate
  • Lean six sigma certification, green or black belt
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and contract information systems and applications (e.g. SRM, Ariba, SAP, scheduling software).