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About Parsons Corporation and the Role

Parsons Corporation is seeking a Contracts Administrator to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time position is integral to managing contractual obligations and ensuring compliance across various projects. Parsons cultivates an innovative culture guided by a vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, empowering individuals to achieve their full potential.

Role Purpose

The Contracts Administrator will be responsible for the comprehensive management of contracts from award through close-out. This role specifically focuses on hospitality assets, including hotels, resorts, food and beverage outlets, and associated amenities, ensuring strict adherence to contractual terms, timelines, and obligations throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage contracts from award to close-out across hospitality assets (hotels, resorts, F&B, and associated amenities), ensuring compliance with terms, timelines, and obligations.
• Manage the variations workflow through PMWeb, ensuring proper routing, approvals, and audit trail for all change events.
• Carry out variation assessments and maintain the variation tracker with up-to-date status, values, and entitlement positions.
• Assess, value, and process variations, change orders, and claims using established quantity surveying principles, with attention to FF&E, OS&E, and fit-out scopes.
• Prepare Interim Payment Certificates (IPCs) for invoicing and follow up with the client to secure timely payment.
• Prepare client cost reports and update commercial dashboards, providing accurate commercial status, forecasts, and variation impacts.
• Draft responses to contractual letters and prepare formal correspondence, notices, and determinations.
• Work with schedulers and planners on programme-related matters, including responding to delay letters and preparing responses to extension of time (EOT) claims.
• Evaluate interim and final payment applications for accuracy and contractual compliance.
• Manage claims and disputes, including extension of time (EOT), prolongation, and disruption submissions.
• Support delay and quantum analysis in coordination with planning and forensic teams.
• Administer interfaces between design consultants, contractors, and hotel operators, ensuring brand standard and operator technical requirements are contractually captured.
• Maintain contract registers, correspondence logs, and commercial records within the project management information system.
• Advise project teams on contractual rights, obligations, and risk exposure.
• Support negotiations, dispute avoidance, and resolution processes (mediation, adjudication, arbitration).
• Ensure compliance with governance, audit, and reporting requirements.

Required Experience

Candidates for this position should possess 5 to 10 years of relevant experience in contracts administration, preferably within the hospitality or related construction sectors. Demonstrated experience in managing complex contracts and variations is essential.

Essential Skills and Knowledge

• Proficiency in contract management software, specifically PMWeb, for variations workflow.
• Strong understanding and application of quantity surveying principles for assessing and valuing variations, change orders, and claims.
• Ability to prepare and manage Interim Payment Certificates (IPCs) and client cost reports.
• Experience in drafting contractual correspondence, notices, and determinations.
• Knowledge of claims and dispute management, including EOT, prolongation, and disruption.
• Familiarity with contractual requirements for FF&E, OS&E, and fit-out scopes.
• Capability to advise project teams on contractual rights, obligations, and risk exposure.

Application Information

This full-time role offers an opportunity to contribute to significant projects within Parsons Corporation in Riyadh. Salary details will be discussed during the interview process.