Contracts Manager Innovo Build LLC

· Lead contract administration for major infrastructure projects (FIDIC/Employer bespoke forms), ensuring compliance with notice requirements, timelines, and contractual procedures. · Review, negotiate and advise on contract terms, subcontracts, and supplier agreements, highlighting risks and proposing mitigation measures. · Manage variations/change control: instruction review, entitlement assessment, pricing approach alignment with QS, and submission strategy. · Oversee claims management: time/extension of time (EOT), disruption, prolongation, acceleration, and associated cost recovery with supporting records. · Maintain a robust contractual correspondence system and ensure accurate, timely notices, approvals, and responses. · Support project teams with contract interpretation, contractual training/awareness, and strategy during disputes or escalations. · Coordinate with Planning, QS, Engineering and Site teams to ensure records (daily reports, progress, delays, resource logs) support entitlements. · Lead or support dispute resolution processes (negotiation, adjudication/DAB, arbitration preparation) with external counsel/consultants when required. · Participate in tender and pre-award reviews: key contractual clauses, risk registers, qualifications, and commercial assumptions. · Ensure effective subcontract management: flow-down clauses, payment mechanisms, claims/variations handling, performance security, and close-out. · Monitor contract-related KPIs and provide management reporting on risk, exposure, claims status, and recovery forecasts. · Ensure contractual close-out: final accounts support, release of securities, settlement agreements, and lessons learned.