Contracts Manager Landscape Projects📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Robou Al Yasmeen Agricultural is seeking an experienced Contracts Manager Landscape Projects to join our team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role focuses on leading the contractual and commercial management for significant landscape, public realm, irrigation, and infrastructure projects across the Kingdom.

Role Focus and Impact

The Contracts Manager will be responsible for overseeing high-value main contracts and subcontracts, protecting the company’s commercial interests, and leading claims and change management processes. This position requires providing strategic contractual advice to project leadership, ensuring robust commercial oversight in complex, multi-package project environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the administration of main contracts, subcontracts, purchase orders, tender documents, BOQs, specifications, drawings, and contractual correspondence.
• Review contract conditions to identify commercial risks, notice requirements, obligations, exclusions, milestones, payment terms, insurance requirements, and performance-security obligations.
• Develop and implement project contract-administration procedures, registers, reporting formats, and risk-control measures.
• Lead the preparation, review, submission, negotiation, and settlement of variations, change orders, extension-of-time submissions, disruption claims, prolongation claims, and final accounts.
• Ensure all contractual notices, responses, and substantiating records are issued within the applicable contractual time limits.
• Manage contractual correspondence and commercial negotiations with clients, consultants, PMCs, subcontractors, suppliers, and relevant stakeholders.
• Provide contractual and commercial advice to the Project Director, Commercial Director, Planning Manager, Project Controls team, and site management team.
• Lead subcontract commercial administration, including scope review, tender evaluation, subcontract award support, payment assessment, variations, claims, and close-out.
• Ensure subcontract agreements properly flow down applicable main-contract obligations, including programme, quality, HSE, insurance, warranties, liquidated damages, and handover requirements.
• Coordinate with planning, engineering, QS, procurement, finance, QA/QC, document control, and construction teams to develop substantiation for claims, variations, and payment applications.
• Oversee interim payment applications, payment certificates, cash-flow reporting, retention recovery, guarantees, insurance documentation, and final-account reconciliation.
• Maintain accurate contracts, claims, variations, correspondence, risks, guarantees, insurance, and subcontract registers.
• Lead contractual risk reviews and recommend mitigation actions to protect project time, cost, and commercial entitlement.
• Manage contractual disputes and coordinate with legal advisers where necessary, including dispute-avoidance, settlement, mediation, arbitration, or litigation support.
• Lead project contract close-out, including completion documentation, final account agreement, release of retention, warranties, defect-liability obligations, and subcontract finalization.
• Lead, mentor, and supervise Contracts Administrators and commercial team members.

Candidate Profile and Requirements

We are seeking a senior professional with the following qualifications and experience:

• A minimum of 5-10 years of experience in contracts management.
• Proven experience with Saudi mega-projects.
• Strong knowledge of FIDIC contracts.
• Ability to manage complex multi-package environments.
• Demonstrated capability in managing claims, contractual correspondence, and final-account negotiations.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work on landmark mega landscape and urban-development projects in Saudi Arabia.
• A senior commercial leadership role within a multidisciplinary project team.
• A competitive salary and benefits package, commensurate with qualifications and experience.
• Professional growth within a high-profile project environment.

Application Information

We invite qualified candidates to apply for this full-time position and contribute to our significant projects in Riyadh.