Project Management

JOY JIJI OKU

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Personal Profile

Over six years of proven commitment to provide procurement and contract administration from pre-post award activities to close out. More than six years of project management experience in projects coordination, cost and schedule controls and establishing best practices. stakeholder’s relationship management, excellent communicator and good negotiator.

Key Skills

Multi-tasking Procurement and Contract Management

Budgeting and forecasting Vendor sourcing and customer Relations Expert

Risk/Time Management Excellent writing skills

Results-oriented Cost reduction and containment

Project development and lifecycle Exceptional Negotiator/Analysing/Tracking

Accomplishment

•Developed and implemented contracting strategy/procedure which increased production by 25%, cost effective, on-time delivery and boosted local content capability and competence.

•Improved customer satisfaction ratings by 35% by implementing a new user-friendly interface, invoicing

•Streamlined and improved invoicing method which reduced company cost by 40% and made savings of $1.2M from contracts and invoice auditing.

•Recipient of the STAR Award in 2014 and Manager's award 'MOST ENTHUSIASTIC STAFF'

•Trained Contracts Analyst and Administrators.

•Strong knowledge of Microsoft office suite – word, excel spreadsheet, power point, adobe Acrobat, SAP, Proactis and Sun supplementary, contract repository, Inovis, oracle –iRec, Siebel for tracking deliverables, invoicing, change orders, contracts processing/award, monitoring, reporting and archiving.

•Understands and interprets Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and other contractual terms

Experiences

February 2016 – April 2017

Contracts Analyst OpenText Gaithersburg MD USA

•Identified, Reviewed, analysed and classified contract terms and conditions based on type and content (in contracts, purchase orders, confidentiality agreements, customer vendor registration, sales documents and other company legal documents) to ensure compliance with company commercial, legal, and risk management policies and procedures and enter such into company contract database and archives.

•Managed contract phases to ensure smooth process whilst auditing each contract such as original contract, all authorization and correspondence, changes/deviations, amendments, terminations, clarifications/ payment schedules and communicate key terms of closed contract and total revenue to Finance and legal department.

•Reviewed and managed foreign contracts based on language, country terms and conditions and governing laws, interpret such and update the company contract network.

•Worked closely with key stakeholders – Legal, Sales and Finance department to resolve contract issues and document such into the contract management network.

•Notified Sales Department when contract document are not fully in place and ensures contracts are properly signed off by both parties and uploaded into company contract network.

•Reviewed customer’s legal name changes, acquisitions, mergers, facility management changes, and other formal customer changes and updates the company contract network.

•Assisted in training new Contract Analysts on project requirements and work collaboratively with other Contract Analysts working local or remotely to resolve questions and incorrect entries made in the contract repository.

•Possess a strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to translate requirements into defined business solutions.

•Organized, detail oriented, and able to shift easily between varieties of tasks with ease.

•Ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a fast paced and changing environment, with minimal supervision.

•Possess a high degree of analytical and problem-solving skills, logic-based thinking, strong creativity and attention to detail.

•Ability to interact with multiple functional teams at company involved in the project, including Legal, Information Technology, Sales and Finance.

April 2008 - February 2015

Contracts Analyst (Specialist) Hobark International Limited

Client: Addax Petroleum Development (Nigeria) Limited Lagos

•Project executed: OML 123, 124, & 126 Fabrication/Installation/Repairs of platforms.

•Responsible for Facilities Department contracts operating in a broad and diverse range of government agency constraints to deliver operable contracts: pre contractual (planning and qualification); contracting (bidding, drafting and award); contract administration (post award operation); post-contract (close out, warranty and audit).

•Responsible for invoicing, payments, variation/claims negotiations, contracts renewals, close out, change order management and made savings in counters of more than $60M within a year.

•Focal point for all vendor contractor relationship management.

•Maintain contractual records: receipt and control of correspondence, contact information, contractual change, progress reporting and other documents for projects.

•Developed and implemented contracting procedures/strategy for KTM project which increased production by 25%, cost effective and increased local content capability/capacity.

•Saved $1.2M within 8months of hire by auditing contracts, negotiating, and clearing back-logs invoices in Facilities Department and initiating Direct Debit Instruction to avoid legal exposures.

January 2007 - March 2008

Project Coordinator/Cost International Energy Services Limited Nigeria Lagos Nigeria

•Project executed: PMT project for Akpo fields Chevron, Ofon 1 Total, PMT project.

•Reviewed all project approval gates linking physical progress to budget and tracked progress

•Facilitated in the procurement planning process, which includes but is not limited to: developing and reviewing requirements for Scope of Work, determining the appropriate method of procurement, prepare small tender packages, perform contract administrations and closeout.

•Set up a cost control unit; develop cost centers for different projects, cost codes; work breakdown structure (WBS) and cost breakdown structure (CBS) approved by Project Manager and Company Director.

•Prepared monthly project cost reports; code Subcontractor's milestone activities, breakdown & distribution.

•Distributed project task to project team, monitoring and progress performance management and invocing.

•Performed Management slide presentation, weekly and monthly reporting.

October 2001 - December 2006

Project Coordinator Sirpi Alusteel Construction Limited Rivers Nigeria

Project Controls Titan Engineers & Constructors

•Project executed: SBM BOUY MPN & FYIP Onshore/Offshore Projects SPDC WARRI.

•Set up project site office, Performed project materials and associate logistics.

•Prepared weekly/monthly construction work report.

•Supported Project Manager with administrative services; labour contracts, benefits and leave administration.

•Invoicing and Time sheet Administrator

Education/Professional Membership

M.Sc: Villanova University Villanova PA, USA Applied Project Management 2015

B.Sc: University of Calabar, Cross Rivers State Nigeria Agric. Economics & Extension 2000

Member, Project Management Institute (PMI)

Member, Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supplies (CIPS)

Member, National Contract Management Association (NCMA)

Certificates

2014 - Diploma courses in Purchasing & Supplies (CIPS)

2014 - Certificate of participation for completing the TMPL Activity Base Team Building session by Team Management Partners Nigeria

2012 - Certificate in Business and Contract Law by Faconbury Distance Learning UK

2012 - Certificate in Mastering Contracts Management. The Oxford 5-day MBA by GLOMACS UK

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