Job Role/ Department: Head of Projects Department.
Location: Main Office, Dubai
Mainly leading the Project Department for the following activities:
• Setting out the project strategy for tendering and pricing.
• Allocating, Defining, determining, and analyzing risk factors in project documents during tendering stage.
• Negotiating contract conditions, drafting contracts, and dispute resolution.
• Determining projects resources, setting up project planning policy, organizing the project outlines, and directing the project operations.
• Forecasting projects cash flows and integrating a master company’s cash flow to control expenditures and daily operations within the estimated projects budgets.
• Provide professional advice, directions, expertise, and practical assistance and support to the project managers during projects execution; such as issuance/ response to contractual issues and correspondences.
• Maintaining/ providing continuous training and awareness of safety and know-how to projects’ teams before and during projects operations.
• Verifying project procurement process within specification, time, and budgets.
• Verifying Base-Line Programme of Works for individual projects within the Contract Barometers.
• Initiating, forming, and following up variations and claims; and leading the dispute resolutions.
• Maintain close contact with the company’s clients and other stakeholders through meetings and correspondences for assuring smooth site operation.
• Ensuring that all projects are closed-out contractually, fulfilling all obligations and commitments, payments, and discharges.

Feb 2017 – Feb 2018
Sr. Contracts/ Commercial Manager
Hill International - Jabal Omar Development Co. / PMO - Jeddah, Ksa
Hill International is a Project Management Company presenting the biggest developer, Jabal Omar Development Co. (JODC) / PMO - Jeddah, Ksa;

Jabal Omar Development Company (JODC), the Client, is based in Jeddah and developing a 10 Billion worth of high-rise distinguished 5 and 7 Stars Hotels, Hotel Apartments, and Malls projects adjacent to Haram Mosque in Mecca.

Job Role/ Department: Project Management Office, PMO – Civil Construction Division.
Location: PMO, Main Office
Job Role: Leading a team of six contract managers to administer JODC Post-Tender contracts worth of (SR) 10 Billion
• Review, enhance, and recommend Contract Conditions at Pre-Tendering Stage to eliminate Employer’s Risks by adopting the best possible protective measures.

• Ensure, maintain, and administer contractors’ Tender Bonds, Performance Bonds, and Insurance Policies according to contracts requirements and conditions.

• Provide professional advice, expertise, and practical assistance and support to the Execution Department on daily contract administration of current contracts, issuance/ respond to contractual correspondences, and monitoring contractors’ and other stakeholders’ contractual obligations towards JODC.

• Follow up and coordinating the role of the supervision consultants, ensuring their contractual fulfillments and roles towards the JODC and the contractors. Reviewing and/ or supporting consultants’ correspondences to the contractors as per contracts conditions.

• Analysis of contractors’ and consultants’ quantum and extension of time claims pursuant to contract conditions, program of works, technical and contractual correspondences, and recommending/ supporting/ rejecting the final conclusion, as the case may be.

• Managing Employer’s Risk Analysis, Risk Determination & Mitigation, and Risk Control.

• Taking all adequate internal measures for avoiding disputes during project operation; attending and addressing contractual matters with client / consultants and negotiating claims / extension of time and mitigating any contractual disputes.

• Review and Support PMs in Contractual Correspondences during Construction Stage to minimize contractual risks, claims, and extension of time claims.

• Negotiate, draft, amend, and administer contracts with all project stakeholders, main contractors, designers, consultants, end-users, operators, and associated contractors/ providers to the best interest of and least risk to the Employer.

• Analysis and determining contractors’ claims, leading debates and dispute resolution.

• Ensure Closeout of projects according to projects milestones; ensure obtaining all Employer’s documents and certificates as per contract conditions.

• Prepare & follow up Projects Consolidated Contractual Report with the best-recommended options for Action Plans to executive management.

• Analyze, draft, negotiate, and recommend to executive management contract amendments with contractors, if necessary, to the best benefit to the Employer by reducing the risks of contractors’ and consultants’ claims for cost and/ or extension of time against the Employer.

Kindly see the attached full detailed CV. of 34 years of various experience

Construction Management