Talent Right is partnering with a specialist construction contractor to recruit a Senior Contracts Administrator.

Most contracts administrators inherit a contract somebody else negotiated and hand it on before the final account is settled. This one is different. You pick a project up at award, set the commercial position yourself, run it through construction, and close it out. The full lifecycle, on your own projects.

It will suit someone who chases what they are owed. Entitlement does not collect itself, and a variation left sitting quietly becomes a variation written off. Our client wants someone who stays on it and sees it through.

About the Client

Our client is a specialist subcontractor on major construction and infrastructure work, with projects and offices spread across the country.

Contracts come to them from tier one builders, and they engage their own subcontractors beneath that, some sizeable and some smaller businesses. You will be reading, negotiating and administering agreements at both ends of that chain.

They used to run state by state, but now they run as one national business, and the commercial side is being built out to match. Standards and systems are being written now rather than inherited from twenty years ago.

About the Role

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you take a project and hold its commercial position for the life of it.

That starts before a shovel moves. You read the head contract properly, build the risk register and departures schedule off what you find, and get the payment terms, security and retention understood rather than assumed. You negotiate and execute the conditions,



finalise qualifications and subcontract templates, and have the registers and obligation trackers running before the project does.

Through construction, the rhythm takes over: claims up to the head contractor, claims down from subcontractors, variations, notices, extensions of time and the correspondence that supports all of it. You keep the cost value reconciliation current, forecast where the project will finish, sit down weekly with the project managers, and feed the monthly reporting.

Then you finish the job properly, which is the part most people rush. Final claims, final accounts, retention released, subcontract accounts closed, financials reconciled, and the lessons written down while they are still fresh.

Our client is open to candidates in any state where they have an office.

Key Responsibilities

Set up the commercial position

- Review head contract commercial conditions, liabilities, payment terms, security and retention requirements
- Build the commercial risk register and departures schedule
- Capture commercial commitments and scope changes
- Finalise commercial qualifications and subcontract templates
- Negotiate and execute contract conditions and expenditure caps




- Manage early-works approvals and procurement authorisations
- Secure insurances, guarantees and contractual documentation
- Establish contract registers and obligation trackers

Talent Right is partnering with a specialist construction contractor to recruit a Senior Contracts Administrator.

Most contracts administrators inherit a contract somebody else negotiated and hand it on before the final account is settled. This one is different. You pick a project up at award, set the commercial position yourself, run it through construction, and close it out. The full lifecycle, on your own projects.

It will suit someone who chases what they are owed. Entitlement does not collect itself, and a variation left sitting quietly becomes a variation written off. Our client wants someone who stays on it and sees it through.

About the Client

Our client is a specialist subcontractor on major construction and infrastructure work, with projects and offices spread across the country.

Contracts come to them from tier one builders, and they engage their own subcontractors beneath that, some sizeable and some smaller businesses. You will be reading, negotiating and administering agreements at both ends of that chain.

They used to run state by state, but now they run as one national business, and the commercial side is being built out to match. Standards and systems are being written now rather than inherited from twenty years ago.

About the Role

Reporting to the Commercial Manager, you take a project and hold its commercial position for the life of it.

📌 Senior Contracts Administrator (Sydney)
🏢 Talent Right
📍 Sydney