Obianuju OKOYE

March 2023 - July 2024

LIVISTA ENERGY LTD - Bristol, UK 

CONTRACTS MANAGER : 

• Providing efficient and high-quality support to the operational and market teams, throughout the Win and Deliver work cycle.

• Leading on bid and project governance including ownership of escalated approvals systems.

• Reviewing contracts and other legal documents in co-ordination with the Legal function. Leading on and / or supporting the markets with contract negotiations.

• Development of business cases to support new initiatives (e.g., M&A, new markets, products, technologies and other investment cases).

• Leading on the resolution of potential disputes and claims (project, insurance etc).

• Delivery of key elements of the Risk and Commercial roadmap, supporting a wide array of commercial projects and business improvement initiatives.

• Active role in project procurement at both strategic business and project level (e.g., developing supplier and partnering strategies, setting the project procurement strategies and where required acting as project procurement manager etc).

WEST OF ENGLAND COMBINED AUTHORITY - Bristol, UK

CONTRACTS MANAGER :

• Responsible for the contractual management of a number of South West of England Energy Hub large scale Housing Retrofit program.

• First point of contact for all contractual and commercial issues to the Contract. Leading the Contract and commercial negotiations and workshops.

• Ensured that the Delivery Organizations working on the program, delivered work in line with Contract.

• Responsible for overseeing the Supplier costs and budget management for the program.

• Undertake frequent Contract review meetings with Suppliers, agreeing corrective actions and amending Contract where needed.

• Supported the various Suppliers to ensure that the data and information submitted for the regular reporting satisfied the contract reporting requirement.

• Ensured that Contractors and Sub-contractors maintain compliance with the scheme requirements, health and safety rules while ensuring that the business is protected against fraudulent activity.

• Drove value by utilizing the use of performance metrics and success criteria.

BAKER HUGHES - UK 

FUNCTIONAL EXCELLENCE LEADER : 

• Actively manage the development and implementation of commercial processes to be in line with business requirement.

• Ensured that the project teams, and all stakeholders feeding into the project team conform to the contract reporting processes.

• Set guidelines and Key performance indicators to monitor progress and adherence to the commercial process.

• Monitor and receive feed-back from contract teams to help continually improve processes, including Variation and Claim trackers, Warranty trackers, Delegation of Authority thresholds,

• Contract document storage and distribution and Claims handling.

• Selective Contributions:

• Streamlined the current project team reporting regimes while ensuring contract teams adhere to the current processes and used the appropriate reporting documents.

• Responsible for the coordination and roll out of commercial training packages.

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GE OIL & GAS - Bristol, UK 

LEAD- EPC CONTRACTS MANAGER

• Effectively manage commercial aspects of the operational Contracts and Services Contract along with projects closures for use in commercial analysis, estimating, and lessons learnt reports.

• Submit the monthly contract & commercial reports to overall GE commercial manager and leadership team.

• Check the closure of identified cost along with scheduled risks and opportunities across the business.

• Develop a plan operational contracts placement, extension and award.

• Identified opportunities for cost efficiencies and estimated value for money. Ensure accuracy and up-to-date capture of all commercial related lessons learned on the executed project.

• Oversee contract performance in conjunction with the nominated customer’s contract’s representative.

• Managed the approval and screening of items for shipping which required export controls.

Selective Contributions:

• Supported the appointed contract representative in the overall management of operational contracts.

• Led project handover from the project and the after-sales service contracts team on both new and closing projects as needed.

• Negotiated for the resolution of claims and arising commercial issues during and after the project life cycle.

• Acted as main point of contact with client on dealing with and resolving the commercial matters.

SUBSEA TREES - Aberdeen, Scotland, UK 

CONTRACTS MANAGER 

• Ensured the invoicing process of variations and cash as per contract, and that the project maintains a positive cash flow.

• Owned and maintained the GE Variation order database for the project.

• Handled all the components of variations proposal including creation, internal approval and submission in accordance with GE and contract requirements.

• Reported to Senior Management regarding updates to monthly contract management reporting documents and inputs for budgets and forecasts as required.

Selective Contributions:

• Closely supported the Project Manager in managing all variations and amendments to contract along with project risk through regularly revisiting risk and driving action to mitigate the risk effects.

• Headed the project team on operations in full accordance with GE's quality management system with Contractual issues and claims with clients and vendors.

• Negotiated with clients on changes and scheduled all variation items in accordance with Contract terms.

• Led the project handover from the bid team including activities of project start-up and contract familiarisation.

SUBSEA TREES - Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

CONTRACTS SPECIALIST 

• Directed project team about project costing, financial modelling and forecast reporting.

• Ensured the complying of project teams with the requirements of project specific contractual administration and quality management procedures for reducing both financial and timescale risk.

• Planned and agreed with internal/external client, the escalation of contract rates and prices as per the contract.

Selective Contributions:

• Carried out contracts risk assessment and advised management regarding contractual risk issues which may arise on the life of the contract.

• Supported compliance along with the continuous development of GE's change management and variation order management systems.

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L-X CONSULTING - Aberdeen, Scotland, UK 

CONTRACTS ADMINISTRATOR

• Effectively dealt with internal/external queries and updated subsequent changes required after revising the contractual terms on behalf of clients.

BRITISH TELECOM - Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

CUSTOMER SERVICE SALES ADVISOR

• Acted as a first point of contact for all incoming calls relating to sales of phones, broadband and TV packages.

ACE, NUEL AND DILY - Nigeria

CONTRACTS OFFICER

• Supported the negotiation and maintenance of subcontracts, variations and claims.

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