Decima International - Tender Manager

Dubai, United Arab Emirates1w ago

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in tender management, procurement management, contracts management, commercial management, quantity surveying, or EPC procurement within large-scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission-critical projects. • 15+ years • Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, or a related technical/commercial field. • Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Quantity Surveying • Proven experience leading at least 3 large-format EPC procurements for data center or comparable large-scale projects. • 3 large-format EPC procurements • Strong knowledge of FIDIC contracts, tendering procedures, procurement governance, contract conditions, commercial evaluation, and EPC procurement requirements. • FIDIC contracts • Experience managing tender documentation, bidder communications, tender clarifications, commercial evaluations, negotiations, and award recommendations. • Strong ability to review technical and commercial proposals, pricing schedules, exclusions, assumptions, qualifications, deviations, and contract risks. • Experience coordinating with multidisciplinary teams, including engineering, project management, cost control, planning, legal, contracts, procurement, and client representatives. • Strong understanding of construction procurement, EPC contracting models, contract risk allocation, commercial terms, variations, claims, bonds, insurances, warranties, and payment mechanisms. • Ability to identify tender risks, commercial gaps, pricing inconsistencies, scope omissions, and contractual exposure. • Excellent written and verbal English fluency. • English fluency • Strong communication, negotiation, leadership, and stakeholder management skills. • Strong analytical and organizational skills with excellent attention to detail. • Ability to manage multiple tender packages, deadlines, approvals, and stakeholder inputs in a fast-paced project environment. • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook. • Experience working on data center, hyperscale, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large-scale commercial building projects. • data center • Experience working in a PMC, owner’s representative, consultant, client-side procurement, or developer-side commercial environment. • Previous experience working in Dubai, the UAE, or the wider GCC region. • Master’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Procurement, or a related field. • Professional certifications or memberships such as MRICS, RICS, CIPS, PMP, FIDIC certification, AACE, or equivalent. • MRICS • FIDIC certification • Strong knowledge of UAE/GCC procurement practices, contractor markets, authority requirements, and regional construction delivery models. • Experience using procurement, contract management, cost management, or document control platforms such as Aconex, Procore, Oracle Primavera Cloud, SAP, or similar systems. • Arabic language capability is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead the full tender lifecycle for large-scale EPC procurement packages, from tender planning and documentation through evaluation, negotiation, recommendation, and award support. • Develop and manage tender strategies, procurement plans, tender schedules, bidder lists, evaluation criteria, and commercial submission requirements. • Coordinate with project management, engineering, commercial, contracts, cost, procurement, planning, and client teams to ensure tender documents are complete, clear, and aligned with project objectives. • Prepare, review, and manage tender documentation, including instructions to tenderers, scope documents, pricing schedules, technical requirements, contract conditions, commercial forms, and evaluation templates. • Lead pre-tender meetings, tender briefings, clarification processes, site visits, bidder communications, and tender addenda. • Ensure tender processes are conducted in a fair, transparent, compliant, and properly documented manner. • Manage technical and commercial tender evaluations in coordination with discipline leads, cost teams, legal, procurement, and client stakeholders. • Review contractor proposals, commercial submissions, exclusions, assumptions, qualifications, pricing structures, schedules, and contract deviations. • Lead tender clarification meetings, commercial negotiations, and alignment sessions with bidders. • Prepare tender evaluation reports, bid comparison sheets, recommendations for award documents, and procurement decision summaries. • Ensure tender and procurement activities comply with FIDIC-based contract principles, client procurement governance, internal policies, and applicable project requirements. • Support the development, review, and negotiation of EPC contracts, including contract terms, risk allocation, payment terms, variations, claims provisions, warranties, bonds, insurances, and performance obligations. • Identify commercial, contractual, technical, schedule, and procurement risks within tender submissions and recommend mitigation strategies. • Coordinate with cost management teams to validate pricing, benchmark commercial proposals, and support budget alignment. • Maintain accurate tender records, correspondence, clarification logs, evaluation matrices, approval records, and procurement documentation. • Support procurement reporting, tender dashboards, award trackers, and executive summaries for leadership and client review. • Provide guidance to project teams on tendering best practices, procurement governance, FIDIC contract requirements, and commercial risk management. • Perform other related duties as required and assigned.