Contracts Manager

Overview

As a Contracts Manager at Linesight, you will work with highly experienced, culturally diverse, and passionate teams nurturing a strong social dynamic and a shared sense of achievement. You will gain vast industry experience that will open doors for you, extend your skillset and expand your perspective. We will empower, support, and enable you to take real responsibility in your role so that you can take charge of your career progression with us. For us lasting trusted relationships are everything, both with our teams and our clients. 

The Opportunity

In This Role You Will:

• Be responsible for establishing, implementing, and maintaining robust contractual governance across all phases of the Global Construction Program. The primary goal is to enforce the 'Standardisation First, Localisation by Exception' principle, ensuring that all project contracts are built from controlled global templates, thereby minimising commercial and legal risk exposure and maximising value realisation.
• cover the full contract management lifecycle, with a strong focus on global standardisation and risk mitigation as defined by the Two-Phase Contracting Approach.
• Develop, implement, and maintain the standardised global contract management framework, policies, and procedures. Own the strict control of core global templates, ensuring they are never modified directly and that all deviations are exclusively captured in the Addendum.
• Lead and control the bi-annual template review cycle in collaboration with Global Legal, Central Functions, and Design & Engineering Team Leads (Document Owners) to ensure the templates remain fit for purpose across the global program.
• Govern the consistent application of the two-phase approach, providing expert contractual support for the use of the PCSA/SOW under ISA during Pre-Construction and the Fixed Price Lump Sum Construction Agreement (FPLS CA) for the execution phase.
• Provide expert contractual advice to the Project Teams and Procurement Agent throughout the RFP process. Monitor the Project Teams' progress against the required contract assembly timelines (e.g., the 12-week pre-RFP milestone), ensuring all required contract building blocks and the Precon Agreement are prepared accurately and in time for RFP issuance.
• Implement and audit the localisation guidelines, ensuring that the Main Body remains strictly non-localised and that all site-specific and legally mandated amendments are accurately, transparently, and consistently documented within the Contract Addendum.
• Define and oversee the process for Project Teams to accurately populate and maintain the Central Contract Register. Monitor key dates, including the 12-week preparation milestone, ensuring the register is utilised to track contract assembly progress and serves as the single, auditable source of truth.
• Proactively identify, analyse, and report on commercial and contractual risks within the portfolio, paying specific attention to deviations documented in the Addendum, and proposing mitigation strategies to the Commercial Leadership team.
• Provide governance and process oversight for managing contract changes, ensuring the Contracts SME and Project Teams adhere strictly to the program's defined process for formal documentation within the Addendum, commercial evaluation, and approval (LGTM sign-offs).
• Support the Contracts SME by ensuring all claims administration and documentation comply with global standards and are accurately tracked in the Central Contract Register, helping to maintain clarity and auditability based on FPLS CA and Addendum terms.
• Support the Contracts SME by providing internal interpretation advice on complex contractual issues to the Commercial Leadership team. The role focuses on advising on governance adherence and procedural risk related to variations or claims.
• Act as the primary point of contractual contact, facilitating collaboration between Project Teams (the primary contract preparers), Procurement Agent, Global Legal, and the various Document Owners (Central Functions and Design & Engineering Team Leads).
• Develop and deliver targeted training sessions focused on equipping Project Teams to successfully assemble and utilise the global contract building blocks (Main Body, Div 01, Technical Specs, Exhibits), and the correct population and control of the Addendum.
• Generate and distribute consolidated monthly reports detailing the contractual status of the global portfolio, utilising data from the Central Contract Register to highlight key localisation trends, claims exposure, and adherence to the template usage policy.

We would love to hear from you if you: 

• Have Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Law, Business, or related Engineering field. Professional certification (e.g., RICS, IACCM, Paralegal) is highly desirable.
• Have a minimum 8-10 years of progressive experience in contract management, claims, and commercial governance, preferably within large-scale, international capital programs or construction projects utilising Fixed Price Lump Sum (FPLS) models.
• Have a deep knowledge of international standard forms of contract (e.g., FIDIC, NEC) and the ability to interpret complex contract law principles. Expertise in managing controlled contract deviation via a formal Addendum or Special Conditions structure is essential.

All interviews are conducted either in person or virtually with video required.

About Us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!  

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility   

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!