Interim Contract / Project Claims Manager

Project overview

About Our Client

Our client is a leading engineering and industrial services company delivering complex installation and maintenance projects within a large industrial production environment.

Job Description

The Successful Applicant

What's on Offer

• Challenging Mission.
• Industrial market leader.
• Review and validate completed installation works against contractual agreements, work orders, change requests, and invoices.
• Analyze and resolve disputes related to executed works, invoicing, and payment claims with the end client.
• Gather, structure, and maintain technical, contractual, financial, and administrative documentation to substantiate claims.
• Coordinate closely with project, engineering, and site teams to verify completed scopes of work and contractual deliverables.
• Lead commercial negotiations to secure payment of outstanding invoices while preserving a constructive client relationship.
• Proven experience as a Contract Manager, Claims Manager, Commercial Project Manager, or Technical Project Manager within industrial projects.
• Strong understanding of contract management, claims handling, project administration, and financial follow-up.
• Solid technical knowledge of industrial installation projects, enabling effective assessment of completed works on site.
• Excellent negotiation and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to challenge claims and defend contractual positions.
• Pragmatic, hands-on professional combining commercial acumen, contractual expertise, administrative rigor, and technical credibility.
• Freelance assignment.
• Full-time engagement.
• Duration: 3-6 months.
• Location: Belgium.
• Immediate availability preferred.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Location: Ghent, BE