Senior Claims/ Manager

About the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Senior Claims/Contract Manager for a full-time position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This role involves leading the administration and management of major construction and infrastructure head contracts, with a focus on complex claims assessment, negotiation, and resolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the administration and management of major construction and infrastructure head contracts.
• Assess, manage, negotiate, and resolve complex claims, including delay, extension of time, disruption, prolongation, variations, Provisional Sum works, loss and expense, acceleration, and productivity-related claims.
• Review contractual entitlement, causation, responsibility, quantum, time impact, supporting records, programmes, and cost information.
• Apply recognised delay and disruption analysis methodologies, including the SCL Delay and Disruption Protocol.
• Instruct and manage independent delay, planning, quantum, and other specialist experts.
• Lead issue resolution, dispute avoidance, commercial negotiations, and settlement discussions.
• Support and manage formal dispute resolution processes, including DAB/DAAB proceedings, mediation, and arbitration.
• Prepare clear, accurate, and formally defensible contractual assessments, reports, position papers, recommendations, and correspondence for the Employer and project leadership.
• Maintain claims registers, commercial risk registers, dispute logs, entitlement schedules, and contractual records.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary team of contracts, claims, and commercial administration professionals.
• Manage relationships with the Employer, contractors, cost consultants, design consultants, programme reviewers, legal advisers, and other project stakeholders.
• Provide sound commercial advice while balancing contractual entitlement, project delivery requirements, commercial objectives, and stakeholder relationships.
• Identify contractual and commercial risks and recommend appropriate mitigation strategies.

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum of 15 years’ experience on large-scale construction and infrastructure projects in a senior contracts, claims, or commercial role.
• In-depth, demonstrable expertise in claims assessment, negotiation, resolution, and project or Employer reporting.
• Detailed knowledge of head contract management and administration under major standard forms, including FIDIC, NEC, and bespoke Employer’s contracts.
• Significant experience managing complex delay, extension of time, disruption, prolongation, variation, Provisional Sum, and loss and expense claims.
• Strong working knowledge of delay analysis methodologies and construction programme analysis.
• Experience instructing, managing, and interfacing with independent delay, planning, quantum, and other technical experts.
• Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary commercial and contracts teams.
• Strong issue resolution, dispute avoidance, negotiation, and settlement skills.
• Experience with formal dispute resolution mechanisms, including DAB/DAAB, mediation, and arbitration.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-party relationships across major construction projects.
• Sound commercial judgement and the ability to balance strict contractual entitlement with project delivery and relationship considerations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to prepare clear, concise, persuasive, and formally defensible written positions suitable for issuance without further rework.
• Strong analytical, organisational, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities.

Work Environment

This role is based in Riyadh, Riyadh, and is a full-time position within Parsons Corporation, a company that values people, embraces agility, and fosters growth.