Project Contract Manager at Albemarle in Shanghai

Job description

Be an essential element to a brighter future. We work together to transform essential resources into critical ingredients for mobility, energy, connectivity and health. Join our values-led organization committed to building a more resilient world with people and planet in mind. Our core values are the foundation that make us successful for ourselves, our customers and the planet. Job Description Albemarle Corporation is a leading global developer, manufacturer and marketer of highly engineered specialty chemicals. The Contract Manager is to identify contract service provider for large capital/sustaining projects to ensure service contract management is synergy leveraged, legally compliant and meet the commercial needs of Albemarle and its key stakeholders. This position is responsible to lead capital project service contracting management. The role will have responsibility ensure project service contracting strategy and working plan is fully aligned with stakeholders in the specific project. The role should fully capture project nature and priorities, scope/ schedule/cost requirement, key objectives, align with high-level procurement and contracting management strategies, plans to agreed-upon project success factors and incorporate asset lifecycle management considerations. Governance and optimal execution of capital services and investments are consistent with global capital procurement strategies and procedures, depending on market conditions and project timing. Responsible for performing daily project contract management following project strategy and working plan. Compliance with regional and global capital procurement/contract procedure, policy, working process and reporting requirement. Monitor and drive project service activities on schedule and fully comply with project requirement. Identify project service contract risk and work with management for mitigation. Responsibilities: Organize to align regional contracting sourcing strategy, package awarding strategy. Organize qualification of local service contractors, ensure sufficient service contractor pool for capital project execution and competitive bidding. Develop project contract status report with activities plan and forecast breakdown, work and drive the contracting management in comply with the working plan. Raise concern for deviation and risk, work out mitigation and alignment with project stakeholders. Track contracting progress, completeness and traceability of related documents. Collaborate with stakeholders ensure Sanction Screen Check for service contract bidder is well performed. Ensure confidentiality agreement in place before bidding activities. Organize single source justification if a single source request is raised from stakeholders, review, challenge and get aligned considering the specific project nature. Compile ITB documents, ensure issue to the market to the bidders from the approved bidder list on project schedule plan. Perform service contract bidding and guarantee the bidding process is compliance with ALB’s bidding procedure. Organize pre-bid meetings. Organize technical and commercial clarification meetings. Collaborate with stakeholders to review, evaluate on service contract proposal. Price review and negotiation. Monitor and service contractor’s performance. Prepare LOA. Prepare and finalize service contracts with alignment with stakeholders. Supervise project execution team to organize and coordinate of all contracts’ related issues with contractors, project stakeholders and authorities for projects. Supervise of project contract execution adhering to schedule, budget, quality requirement, environment, safety & corporate compliance regulations, the global procurement procedures and local regulatory standards as well as other internal process standards. Supervise the execution of contracts or subcontracts to minimize risk to the company. Resolving contract disputes. Regular develop project contract report. Conducts regular reviews with