Contracts Chief

POSITION DESCRIPTION – CONTRACTS CHIEF

Reports to:

PURCHASING MANAGER

Location:

Kışladağ- UŞAK

Tüprag

A.Ş., a wholly owned subsidiary of Eldorado Gold Corporation in Turkey, is one of the 100 largest industrial enterprises in Turkey, operating for more than 35 years with around 1500 employees. Eldorado Gold, which continues its activities in different continents all over the world, is a listed company and its shares are traded on the Toronto and New York stock exchanges.

In Turkey, it operates in Uşak
- Kışladağ, one of the largest gold mines in Europe, and İzmir
- Efemcukuru region. Its head office is in Ankara.

As Tüprag

A.Ş., we continue to contribute to our country in every sense with our principle of "People and Environment First, Mining Second", which we have adopted since the first day of our establishment in our company history of more than 35 years.

Our company, Tüprag Metal Madencilik, is seeking an experienced and results-oriented Contracts Chief to be assigned to our Uşak
- Kışladağ mining site.

This position will be responsible for the end-to-end management of material, service and construction contracts; tendering and commercial negotiation processes; contract performance and risk monitoring; and continuous improvement and digitalization of contract management processes.

• Manage the end-to-end preparation, negotiation, execution, amendment, renewal and close-out of material, service and construction contracts.
• Coordinate tender processes from development of the tender strategy through contract award and signature in collaboration with relevant functions.
• Coordinate the preparation of technical, commercial and administrative tender documents across relevant disciplines.
• Perform commercial evaluation of bids, including unit-price and total-cost analyses.
• Lead commercial negotiations with suppliers and contractors and establish contractual terms that protect the Company’s interests.
• Manage progress payments, contract variations/change orders, additional works, price adjustments, extensions of time and contractual claims in coordination with relevant functions.
• Monitor active contracts in terms of schedule, budget, obligations, performance, risk, guarantees, insurance, renewals and close-out criteria.
• Evaluate supplier and contractor performance and develop performance-improvement actions when required.
• Identify contractual and commercial risks at an early stage and coordinate preventive and corrective actions with relevant stakeholders.
• Contribute to the standardization, simplification, digitalization and continuous improvement of tender and contract management processes.
• Ensure effective use of SAP Ariba, CLM, e-sourcing or similar systems and actively contribute to system and process development initiatives.
• Develop and improve contract/tender KPIs, dashboards and management reporting.
• Develop contract templates, procedures, workflows, checklists and standard working methods.
• Work closely with operations, engineering, maintenance, finance, legal, HSE, environment and procurement teams to ensure contracts support operational requirements.
• Develop sustainable, long-term and strategically aligned business relationships with critical suppliers and contractors.

• Collaboration – We succeed together.
• Integrity – We are honest and do the right thing.
• Agility – We continuously assess, adapt, and navigate to the find solutions.
• Courage – We embrace the unknown and face changes head‑on.
• Drive – We persevere through adversity, remaining committed to delivering on our promises.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in contract management, tendering and procurement processes.
• Preferably experienced in…