Commercial Contracts Sr. Specialist

About the Role

Salam is seeking a Commercial Contracts Sr. Specialist to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves managing the full lifecycle of commercial contracts, ensuring compliance, mitigating risks, and supporting strategic commercial objectives. The specialist will play a key role in defining, drafting, negotiating, and overseeing various contract types.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and document commercial contract requirements in collaboration with internal stakeholders, ensuring clarity in scope, deliverables, pricing, timelines, and compliance with internal governance.
• Develop, structure, and draft commercial contract documents, tailoring templates and clauses based on contract type, category, and strategic commercial positioning.
• Lead and support commercial contract negotiations, providing guidance on commercial structure, risk allocation, terms interpretation, and alignment with company policies and legal standards.
• Conduct comprehensive commercial contract reviews to identify risks, ambiguities, or non-compliant provisions, and recommend appropriate amendments or mitigation measures.
• Oversee execution and performance of active commercial contracts, monitoring milestones, obligations, and deliverables to ensure full compliance and alignment with business needs.
• Manage commercial contract lifecycle events, including renewals, extensions, variations, and terminations, to maximize value and minimize risk.
• Resolve commercial contract-related disputes or deviations, coordinating resolution mechanisms and advising stakeholders on liabilities, remedies, and corrective actions.
• Maintain centralized and accurate commercial and corporate contracts records, ensuring all versions, approvals, amendments, and correspondence are traceable and stored in approved repositories.
• Provide real-time contractual clarifications and interpretations to commercial and procurement teams, ensuring consistent application of terms and company positions.
• Oversee leasing contract responsibilities, including renewals, negotiations, and ensuring compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure proper governance, documentation, and lifecycle management of leasing agreements and key contractual milestones.
• Oversee commercial support activities including contract workflow monitoring, documentation governance, archiving compliance, and coordination for audit readiness.
• Maintain high-level oversight of contract documentation systems to ensure accuracy, retention compliance, and accessibility.

Reporting and Compliance

• Prepare and submit work reports to the function/department head within established time and quality standards.
• Adhere to all safety, quality, and compliance guidelines, policies, procedures, and regulations.

Continuous Improvement

• Support the development of related policies and procedures and contribute improvement ideas.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 5-10 years of relevant experience in commercial contracts.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to contribute to the company's commercial operations.