Contract Administrator at an Indigenous Gas Processing Company

An indigenous Gas Processing company is recruiting qualified and experienced individuals to fill the position below:

Job Title: Contract Administrator

Location: Nigeria

Job Summary

• This position has a reporting responsibility to the Chief Operating Officer. He or she will be responsible for preparing monitoring organizing maintaining documenting and reporting the various contracts related activities for Company.
• The contracts include Natural Gas Liquid Purchase Agreement Contracts, Product Sales, Operations and Mainte nance, SLAs and other contracts engaged in by the Company in accordance with company policy.
• Protects company's rights and minimizes risk through timely, accurate and efficient contract administra tion,

Job Description

• Preparation, review and completion to execution, briefing and filing of contractual documents and related activities.
• Advises planning and production departments of contractual rights and obligations
• Requests for approval/amendments to or extensions of contracts
• Coordinate work of sales department with production and Product dispatch to implement fulfilment of contracts, in areas of pricing, in- voicing and Product Nominations
• Ensuring that daily Product/stock/loadings reconciliations are cared out internally and with off-takers and accurately
• Reporting same to management on daily basis.
• Apply commercial and legal contract provisions specifically related to natural gas and NGL gathering, treating, compression, transportation processing, purchases and sales
• Make input and maintenance of contract information, supply plan- ning, contract replication, and transaction confirmations
• Liaise with internal and external customers regarding contractual terms.
• Coordinate distribution of pricing and other contractual information to Finance/Accounts, Operations team and other internal departments as needed.
• Interpretation of Contract causes
• Liaise with the Legal depart in the preparation of Claims and leading to Dispute Adjudication
• Making input to Contracts Drafting, Evaluation, Negotiation and Execu tions Non-Disclosure Agreements, Sales/Purchasing Agreements, Sub- contracts, Licensing Agreements, review of customer proposed terms and conditions.
• Serve as the point of contact for customers on contractual matters. En- suring timely review and approval/reconciliation of agreement variations •Maintain contractual records and documentation such as receipt and control of all contract correspondences, customer contact information sheets, contractual changes, status reports and other operational docu mentation.
• As needed, provide guidance on contract matters to management or other operational staff.
• Update and implement the existing procedures for contract manage ment and administration in compliance with company policy
• Work with Administration Department / Finance to coordinate con tractual insurance requirements.
• Support Product Management/Sales to ensure company products and services are offered with appropriate, competitive terms and conditions.
• Monitor customer satisfaction with our terms and conditions and con tracting practices and communicate feedbacks Recommend changes where required
• Ensure that signed contracts are communicated to all relevant parties to provide contract visibility and awareness, interpretation to support im- plementation.
• Monitor transaction compliance (milestones, deliverables, invoicing etc.
• Oversee Service Level Agreement/other Contract Compliance and given timely notification to management of any defaults from any party.
• Ensure contract close-out, extension or renewal are carried out timely as spelt out in the Contract Agreements.
• Support the Procurement team in purchases and Vendor Analysis Any other responsibility assigned to you by your supervisor.

Qualifications Skills & Knowledge
Candidate shall possess:

• A Degree in Law with commercial sense or Eng. Engineering Degree with Business Law experience.
• Minimum of five years in experience in oil and gas Contract Administration
• Familiarity with facility Engineering environments
• Knowledge of hydrocarbon Oil and Gas Processing operations is re quired.
• Computer experience-basic operations for Excel, Word ete
• Knowledge of HSE best practices
• Self-motivation to work independently with limited supervision and as part of a team.
• Effective interpersonal and communications skills. Needs to be a beam player with the workforce.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume and Applications to: ng.staffing.cs@gmail.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.