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PURPOSE AND MISSION OF THE JOB:

The Senior Project Contract Manager and Country Head of Contract Management is responsible for leading, structuring, and driving all contract management activities at country level, while also assuming senior project contract management accountability on high‑criticality projects.

• The role combines strategic leadership of the country contract management function with hands‑on ownership of complex contractual, claims, and risk matters to protect and enhance the company’s commercial and financial position. The incumbent ensures the consistent application of contract management governance, drives proactive claim and risk strategies, develops contract management capability, and acts as the primary interface with regional and central contract management leadership.

NETWORK & LINKS

INTERNAL:

• Customer Director
• Project Team (Project Director, Project Manager and Project Team members such as Project planner, Project financial controller)
• Sourcing Legal Counsels and Contract Management Teams worldwide
• Legal & Compliance Department
• Contract Management Community
• Product / Platform teams
• Project Management Office (TPCP Central function)
• Project Directors and Project Managers worldwide
• Key Supplier Contract Manager
• Sourcing and Procurement
• Regional Insurance Manager
• Tender teams

EXTERNAL:

• Customers, Partners, and suppliers/subcontractors, external counsels

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drives the Contract Management activities with the support, when resources are allocated, of Project contract manager(s) and/or Contract Administrator(s).
• Is proposing and justifying the sizing of the Contract management team that should support the Project and drive the Team towards proactive Contract Management
• Ensures application of Contract, Claims and Insurance Management Manual (CCIM) and Alstom governance.
• Drives preparation of Contract Summary and ensure it is widely communicated and regularly updated.
• Prepares with Core Project Team Contract Management Strategy Plan (CMSP)
• Organizes the Contract Management Day with the Core Project Team
• Carefully analyzes the contract to build and drive implementation of Contract/Claim Management Strategy Plan, as well as keep it updated with project team on quarterly basis.
• Contributes to CDRL by the Project Team members is launched in time, is accurately communicated, and updated. 
• Monitors Works toward contract obligations, including monitoring of project schedule toward achieving contractual milestones.
• Ensures timely issuance of contractual notices to customers/partners.
• Establishes and implement project specific commercial procedures, particularly regarding correspondences, notifications, insurance, variation requests/orders and claims preparation files. 
• In collaboration with Documentation Controller and/or Project Contract Administrator, Project Contract manager or Junior Contract Manager ensures a reliable filing and easy access of correspondence from and to customers/partners.
• Monitors/manages correspondence by analyzing (for and with Project Manager/Director) incoming and outgoing correspondence to customers/partners.
• Contributes to REX
• Monitors/manages insurance policy and keep its validity in collaboration with Regional Insurance Manager. Keeps the Regional Insurance Manager duly updated regarding all changes on the project that could represent any deviation of the reaching of the insurance policy.
• Develops and produces any project specific processes and ways of working for contract/claim management.
• Develops a pragmatic commercial approach based on contractual analysis of the project, to protect, on a daily basis, Alstom interests toward customers and partners.
• Carefully monitor, record, and notify customer/partners regarding claims/counterclaims and prepares and manages all elements and supporting documentation for claims/counterclaims negotiations.
• Monitors customer/partner requests for variations / change orders / extensions of time.  Provides follow-up, as necessary, to drive to transactional closure, including updates to the VO/VR/Delay registers, preparation of commercial offer, and prepares associated contractual letters for CD/PM approval.
• Provides creative advice on specific issues, risks, and contractual/claims activities, taking into account the contract and business objectives.
• Reports on contract management and claims activities to the project, and Legal, and Contract Management teams.
• Ensures Contract management KPIS are reported as per reporting deadlines including gathering the inputs from Key supplier Contract Managers and Insurance Managers
• Provides training on contract/claim management to key project stakeholders, including project management, finance, engineering, and sourcing communities.
• Anticipates events and risks associated with the contract management activities; proposes alternative proactive solutions to keep the situation under control.
• Works closely with the Project Directors, Project Managers, Project Controllers, Project Engineering Managers, Sourcing Contract Managers, and Project Planning Managers, to identify and mitigate risks; and to identify, maximize, and leverage claim opportunities.
• Provides at any time, on management demand, a reliable and understandable contractual and commercial analysis of the project.
• For Dispute Arbitration Board (DAB) or similar non-litigation mechanism for dispute resolution, PrCM is required to prepare DAB files, referral notes along with substantial evidences and active participation in the process before the adjudication board or similar board.
• For litigation process handled by Legal Team, PrCM will support Legal team or external counsel
• Knowing how to use Wall C is a plus.
• Must be able to travel up to 20% to 30% of the time.
• Trains, develops, and share knowledge and expertise to Project Contract Managers, Junior Project Contract Managers and Project Contract Administrators  

PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS:

• Contract Management KPIs related objectives
• Driving Contract management towards visible results
• Bringing additional best practices in contract/claim management
• Contribution to added value of the function to projects

EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• A degree in Law, Engineering or quantity surveying or Masters degree in construction law and arbitration or other relevant field

EXPERIENCE:

• English
• Minimum of 12 years of Contract / Claim Management in infrastructure projects.
• Experience in construction or manufacturing related fields
• Experience in leading a team of contract managers
• Experience in railway business
• Professional certification in Contract Management

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS

• Ability to read and interpret contractual documents, including terms and conditions, planning, and technical specifications 
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. 
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.                                                                                                                         
• Ability to understand project financials and impact of contract/claim management on project’s profitability      
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of variables in situations.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in writing, oral, diagram, or schedule form. 
• Ability to anticipate and manage conflicting priorities.                                                                                                
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Contract Management systems; Project Management software; Excel Spreadsheet software and Microsoft Office Word Processing software.
• Ability to work in a proactive mode
• Ability to be operationally effective and accountable. 
• Ability to work transversally and collaboratively in a strong spirit of teamwork. 
• Willingness and ability to be creative and bring forward new ideas and innovations.
• Must be able to communicate with precision and transparency.

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Job Purpose

• Responsible of the site Logistics Engineering team. Design, develop and put in place solutions to improve logistic flows meeting Quality Cost Delivery Environment Health & Safety (QCDE) targets in compliance with regional priorities (regarding material flow, storage, packaging, warehousing, transport and respect of ERP rules).
• Apply the best core practices to improve Logistics operations. The position reports to Logistics Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Communicate daily with suppliers sharing procurement plan & challenging suppliers’ stock items Implement, manage standard packaging solutions (purchase, design, prototype, validation, …) and monitor the budget follow-up.
• Apply solutions to protect parts during all logistic operations (transport, unloading, storage, line feeding
• Save money & cash (calculate ROI Return On Investment, design standard packaging, reduce transport costs, …) and make business case to justify any investment (returnable packaging, …).
• Contribute with Regional Logistic Engineering to identify potential improvements in the whole value chain and capture the added value.
• Reduce work labor time in the warehouse (picking, kitting hours, …) & in production.
• Improve ergonomics at workstation (internal kitting trolley) and reduce waste packaging (zero unpacking).
• Manage the Project Supply Chain specifications and negotiate with the suppliers at site and project level.
• Design internal logistic processes and ensure that the parameters in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) are correct (stock strategy, Activity Based Costing ABC classification, …).
• Put in place actions to align physical flow and system flow and to improve the stock accuracy in compliance with the standard process.
• Design packaging solutions (define flow, calculate batch size, optimize packaging costs, calculate ROI and logistic loop, realize business case returnable vs lost packaging, …).
• Manage packaging at all levels from business award to maintenance including purchase order and budget monitoring.
• Define warehouse layouts, its internal/external flows and storage policy (define C-class storage management, create & implement mirror area, put in place visual management, Kanban flow, First In First Out, First Expired First Out, lean management, …).
• Participate to ABC classification and contribute to C-Class* activity according to the standard rules in place.
• Participate with Project Supply Chain Leader (PrSCL) to the different Procurement Gates Review by negotiating terms of Project Supply Chain Specification
• Reduce logistic costs and make business case (optimize packaging & transport costs, analyze milk-run, calculate ROI realize business case returnable vs lost packaging, …).
• Optimize the line feeding (design standard kitting trolley, warehouse & production line footprint and sequencing, …).
• Work closely with industrialization or Process & Manufacturing Engineering (PME), material planning, warehouse, sourcing, manufacturing teams.
• Apply Environment Health & Safety requirements for logistic: packaging solutions / warehouse process optimization / waste reduction & management
• Manage logistics engineers and technicians: provide a long-term vision to the team, set yearly objectives and targets, support and coach in achieving these targets and objectives, perform performance appraisals, reward and recognize merits, set and follow up team members development plans and induction program for newcomers.
• Manage logistics engineers & aligned team members activities to the workload. To warn the Regional Logistics Engineering if the workload is temporary too high.
• Ensure site logistics engineers and technicians follow Logistic processes

Minimum Requirements

• National Diploma in Industrial Engineering or related qualification
• Similar experience of 5-8 years in an industrial/manufacturing environment
• Experience of mini 5 years in Team management 
• Advanced knowledge of SAP
• Proven project management experience
• Analytical
• Sound knowledge of Industrial and Supply chain processes
• Proven industrial (labour) relations experience
• Excellent and concise communication and leadership skills
• Active team player, deadline driven, process driven
• Customer centricity
• Strategic and methodical vision
• Good communication, negotiation, leadership, and initiative skills
• Strategic and methodical vision
• Problem solving skills
• An agile, inclusive, and responsible attitude
• Priority & risk management

Special Requirements

• The job involves frequent mobility, with work in several depots, and at times on the train corridors.

Closing Date

• 28 April 2026