# Contracts Manager

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Midrand, Gauteng
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP is seeking a Contracts Manager to provide strategic commercial and contractual leadership across major, high-risk, and complex projects or programmes.

The successful candidate will have 15+ years of experience in senior commercial/contractual leadership roles on large infrastructure or energy projects, with deep expertise in NEC, FIDIC, and bespoke contracts.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing strategic leadership on commercial and contractual matters across major projects and programmes

- Developing and implementing commercial strategies aligned to business, project, and client objectives

- Leading negotiation of complex contracts, major variations, claims, and final accounts

- Acting as a key advisor to project directors and senior leadership on contractual, risk, and commercial issues

- Overseeing dispute resolution, claims strategy, and engagement with legal advisors and external consultants

- Establishing and enforcing commercial governance, controls, and risk mitigation frameworks

- Mentoring and developing senior and intermediate contracts/commercial professionals

The role also requires:

- A degree in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, Engineering, Project Management, Law, or equivalent

- Professional registration (e.g., RICS, SACQSP) strongly preferred

- Strategic commercial leadership, expert negotiation and dispute management skills, executive-level stakeholder engagement, strong governance and risk management capability, and mentorship, influence, and decision-making at a senior level

In terms of benefits, WSP offers competitive pay, first-class medical cover, generous annual leave, and paid professional subscriptions.

## Skills

### Required
- NEC
- FIDIC
- bespoke contracts
- strategic commercial leadership
- dispute management
- governance
- risk management

### Nice to have
- RICS
- SACQSP

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