Group Contract Management Director (S)
Key Skills
Job Description
Imagine your career taking you to the depths of innovation and the heights of impact. Our people enable continuous progress. Their commitment, collective expertise, and unique capabilities are the engine room behind SBM Offshore’s True. Blue. Transition. - shaping the future of energy, and beyond.
About Us:
SBM Offshore is a global leader in deepwater ocean infrastructure, delivering floating production solutions across the full asset lifecycle—from design and construction to installation and operation. Supported by a global team of more than 8,000 professionals, the Company operates a long-term, asset-backed business model that delivers high-availability assets and predictable cash flows. SBM Offshore combines engineering expertise, operational reliability, and selective innovation to support safe, efficient, and lower-carbon energy production, while extending its capabilities into new opportunities across the blue economy.
Purpose
- The Group Contract Management Director develops the Contract Management strategy for SBM.
- You coordinate and manage the structure, resources, processes and procedures to ensure optimised Contract Management enablement to the business to maximise opportunity and mitigate risks.
- You provide Contract Management guidance and support across the business to key stakeholders and Executive Leadership
Responsibilities
- You develop the CM strategy for SBM.
- You provide expertise and support for CM across W &G, turnkey, and Operations to key stakeholders and Executive Management.
- You ensure fully resourced and adapted personnel, adherence to best practices and procedures.
- You coordinate and interface with key stakeholders to ensure adapted support.
- You optimize Contract Management for the business.
- You develop and manage strategies for Contract Management.
- You oversee personnel development and organization.
- You develop and maintain good communications.
- You coordinate interfaces with other disciplines at the group level.
- You continuously optimize and standardize practices and processes.
- Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
- Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives.
- Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals.
- You assess risks and opportunities, and drive strategy and development.
Education
- Degree or MBA in one of the following disciplines (Business Management, Law, Construction Law, Engineering or Quantity Surveying).
Experience
- 20+ years of experience covering all aspects contract management including Claims, EPCI, subcontract management.
- Broad experience in sales and lease contracts, in executing contract negotiation and claims.
- Experience of project execution interface.
- Experience within the Oil & Gas industry preferred.
Functional Competencies
GENERAL INFORMATION
SBM Offshore N.V. is a listed holding company that is headquartered in Amsterdam. It holds direct and indirect interests in other companies that collectively with SBM Offshore N.V. form the SBM Offshore Group (“the Company”). For further information, please visit our website at www.sbmoffshore.com. The companies in which SBM Offshore N.V., directly and indirectly, owns investments are separate entities.
SBM Offshore is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. SBM Offshore does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.
Core Responsibilities
The Group Contract Management Director develops and implements the global contract management strategy to optimize business opportunities and mitigate risks. They provide expert guidance to executive leadership and ensure that contract management processes are standardized and effectively resourced across the organization.
Requirements
Candidates must possess a degree or MBA in Business, Law, Engineering, or Quantity Surveying, along with over 20 years of experience in contract management. Extensive expertise in claims, EPCI, and contract negotiation within the oil and gas industry is required.
About SBM Offshore
Industry: Oil and Gas
Company size: 5,001-10,000 employees
SBM Offshore is the world’s deepwater ocean-infrastructure expert. Through the design, construction, installation, and operation of offshore floating facilities, we play a pivotal role in a just transition. By advancing our core, we deliver cleaner, more efficient energy production. By pioneering more, we unlock new markets within the blue economy. More than 7,800 SBMers collaborate worldwide to deliver innovative solutions as a responsible partner towards a sustainable future, balancing ocean protection with progress