Purplyte Integrated Services Limited, a fast growing Engineering company, is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Legal Counsel / Contract Advisor
Location: Ondo
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Description:
- We are looking for a Legal Counsel/Contract Advisor to join our team and perform various duties, including negotiating terms and conditions, preparing contracts, and evaluating bids for our organization.
- The responsibilities include drafting and editing contracts, communicating with vendors, and ensuring that our contracts meet all regulatory requirements.
- Ultimately, you will work with our legal department and directly with vendors to help draft, edit, and process legal contracts as needed.
Responsibilities:
- Manages process, produces deliverables, and updates tools to support the development of project contracting strategy, contractor qualification, bid slates, tender, and evaluation proposals.
- Develops detailed Contracting Plan(s) consistent with the overall Contracting Strategy
- Develops Invitation to Tender (ITT) packages consistent with the responsibility matrix.
- Maintains database of all correspondence to ensure all questions and clarifications have been properly documented and issues agreed to are reflected in final proposals.
- Leads or supports negotiations of any contested contractual terms and conditions.
- Conforms all contract documents consistent with the selected bidder’s proposal, subsequent clarifications, and final negotiations.
- Obtains final functional review/endorsement of contract documents, as required (e.g., Law, Audit, Controllers, etc.), as well as required endorsements.
- Provide pricing / other commercial analysis to the Project Team (PT) for the development of contract award recommendations.
- Assists PT in obtaining contract award endorsements/approvals from Sr. Management and other stakeholders.
- Develops and maintains final contract files (all components), as required.
- Develops and leads internal kick-off meeting(s) with Company personnel to ensure contract awareness, review contract terms and conditions, change order process, and claims avoidance.
- Develop materials for external kick-off meetings with Company and Contractor personnel to review key parts of the contract (e.g., Principal Document, Coordination Procedure, change order process, etc.)
Requirements:
- BSc in Engineering preferred.
- Professional qualification/certification from a related professional body, (ISM – CPM / CPSM, APICS, PMP)
- Experience in Contract negotiation and Engineering / Administration preferred.
- Previous experience in a closely related position is required.
- Experience in commercial negotiations, contractor management, and contract administration
- Broad understanding of project execution and contracting principles, theories, and concepts.
- Owner/Operator experience in project management roles preferred.
Application Closing Date:
15th January, 2024.
Method of Application:
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: purplyteintegratedservices@gmail.com using the job title as the subject of the email.