Senior Commercial Specialist

Job Description

Make your mark as Senior Commercial Specialist at Boskalis Subsea Services in Aberdeen. You shall support the businesses strategic objective of becoming commercially aware and commercially focused. In addition, you will provide contractual and commercial support to the Project teams and the Commercial Department to ensure that all such projects comply with, and meet the obligations and responsibilities under the Client Contract. Further, you shall be responsible for mitigating its contractual and commercial risk whilst optimizing its project delivery and maximizing the contract to the benefit of Boskalis.

Your main responsibilities as Senior Commercial Specialist:

• Review and understand the terms and conditions and obligations agreed to under the main contract, supporting the Project Manager with their understanding
• Contribute to the compilation and updating of the Project Opportunity and Risk Register (ORR)
• Attend weekly project team meetings (internal and external)
• Facilitate project bonds, guarantees and insurances required by Client contract
• Responsible for providing the Client with vessel mobilisation notifications in line with the Contract
• Responsible for reviewing the vessel summary document (Client Cost Tracker) using Daily Project Report (DPR) ensuring accuracy.
• Support and work with the Project Controller to track and accurately forecast all costs in the Boskalis ERP system and BCR reporting
• Ensure accurate and timely completion of the relevant sections with the monthly BCR
• Identify goods and services to be procured for a project in conjunction with Project Manager, Senior Project Engineer, Subcontract Specialist and Procurement Specialist to allow the Subcontracts Specialist to populate a Subcontract and Procurement Plan
• Support Subcontract Specialist with the identification of the main contract flow downs to be
• incorporated into the subcontract.

Qualifications

You can make your mark as Senior Commercial Specialist if you have:

• 7+ years relevant work experience in a subsea/oil and gas commercial/contracts project environment.
• University Degree preferred within Law, Business or Quantity Surveying qualification, or relevant experience as Commercial/Contracts Specialist.
• Understanding of LOGIC and FIDIC contracting principles and has the ability to translate such contracts into subcontract arrangements.
• Working knowledge in project execution.
• Sound commercial understanding and the ability to apply these to project delivery.
• Previous experience of cost tracking and forecasting.

What you can expect

• A dynamic environment: A job that allows you to collaborate with a talented team of experts from different backgrounds and contribute to making a significant impact.
• Rewarding conditions: Besides a competitive salary, you will receive a holiday entitlement of 34 days, a contributory pension scheme, private medical insurance and death in service benefit. There is also a range of flexible benefits you can take advantage of including the opportunity to buy additional holidays each year.
• Career development: We offer you plenty of opportunities to bring out the best in yourself for example through (online) courses at our Boskalis academy.
• Opportunities to connect with colleagues across the organization: Through networking and knowledge-sharing sessions, events, and employee communities.

Extra information

• Your team: you will form part of a team of experienced Project Delivery professionals.
• Where you will work: Your location will be our office in Aberdeen.
• Full/part- time job: The position of Senior Commercial Specialist is full time, 35 hours per week.
• Next steps: Apply easily by completing the online application form. Interviews are held online or in the office. Once it’s clear we’re a good match, we’ll make you an offer – and look forward to welcoming you to the company.

Additional Information

We are more than happy to answer your questions about the position of Senior Commercial Specialist. Please contact Matthew Hurrel, Recruiter.

Please apply by filling in your details and by uploading your cover letter and CV on our careers site.

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Disclaimer for Recruiters and Recruitment Agencies

We appreciate your interest in our vacancies and understand that your candidate might be enthusiastic about this exciting opportunity. However, our recruitment process is not structured this way, at Boskalis we handle recruitment ourselves. Therefore, we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies. Any submission will be treated as a direct application.