We are seeking an experienced and commercially focused EPC Procurement Lead to lead EPC pre-qualification, tendering, bid evaluation, and procurement support activities for large-scale construction and mission-critical projects in Dubai, UAE. This client-facing role requires strong technical, commercial, procurement, and stakeholder management capabilities, with a focus on ensuring that EPC procurement activities are structured, competitive, compliant, and aligned with project objectives.

The ideal candidate will have a background in Quantity Surveying, Engineering, Procurement, Construction Management, or a related discipline, with proven experience leading EPC pre-qualification and bid evaluation for large-scale data center or comparable projects with significant capital expenditure.

You will play a key role in supporting the successful procurement of EPC contractors and major project packages by managing pre-qualification processes, coordinating technical and commercial evaluations, supporting tender governance, and helping ensure the selection of capable, compliant, and commercially competitive bidders.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead EPC procurement activities, including contractor pre-qualification, tender planning, bid evaluation, clarification management, and award recommendation support.
• Develop and manage pre-qualification strategies, evaluation criteria, bidder questionnaires, scoring matrices, and contractor assessment documentation.
• Coordinate the evaluation of EPC contractors based on technical capability, financial strength, project experience, HSE performance, quality systems, delivery capacity, and commercial competitiveness.
• Lead or support tendering activities for large-scale EPC packages, including tender documentation, bidder communications, clarification logs, addenda, and tender submission tracking.
• Coordinate with project management, engineering, commercial, contracts, cost, planning, legal, and client stakeholders to ensure procurement requirements are clearly defined and properly evaluated.
• Manage technical and commercial bid evaluation processes, ensuring alignment between evaluation teams and consistency across scoring, comments, clarifications, and recommendations.
• Review EPC contractor submissions, including qualifications, assumptions, exclusions, pricing, schedules, delivery plans, procurement strategies, staffing plans, and risk registers.
• Prepare bid comparison sheets, evaluation reports, recommendations for award documents, procurement trackers, and executive summaries for client and leadership review.
• Lead clarification meetings, bidder interviews, commercial alignment discussions, and negotiation support sessions.
• Identify procurement, commercial, technical, schedule, contractual, and delivery risks within pre-qualification and bid submissions.
• Support risk mitigation strategies by working with contracts, legal, cost, and technical teams to address commercial exposure, scope gaps, pricing inconsistencies, and contractual deviations.
• Ensure procurement activities are conducted in a fair, transparent, compliant, and properly documented manner.
• Support the development and review of EPC procurement packages, scopes of work, pricing schedules, contract exhibits, and evaluation templates.
• Coordinate with cost management teams to validate bid pricing, benchmark submissions, and support budget alignment.
• Maintain accurate procurement records, pre-qualification files, bid evaluation documentation, approval records, correspondence, and decision logs.
• Support procurement reporting, tender dashboards, bidder status updates, and procurement progress reviews.
• Guide project teams on EPC procurement best practices, bidder evaluation, procurement governance, and commercial risk management.
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in EPC procurement, tender management, procurement management, commercial management, quantity surveying, contracts, or construction procurement within large-scale construction, infrastructure, industrial, or mission-critical projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, Construction Management, or a related field.
• Proven experience leading EPC pre-qualification and bid evaluation processes.
• Experience leading EPC procurement activities for at least 2 data centers or comparable large-scale projects with CapEx exceeding USD 50M per site.
• Strong understanding of EPC procurement models, contractor pre-qualification, tendering procedures, bid evaluation, commercial analysis, and procurement governance.
• Experience developing pre-qualification criteria, bidder evaluation matrices, scoring systems, bid comparison sheets, and recommendations for award documentation.
• Strong ability to review technical and commercial submissions, pricing schedules, exclusions, assumptions, deviations, delivery plans, and contractor qualifications.
• Experience coordinating with multidisciplinary stakeholders, including project management, engineering, cost, planning, legal, contracts, procurement, commercial, and client representatives.
• Strong understanding of construction procurement, EPC contracting, contract risk allocation, scope definition, pricing structures, payment terms, variations, claims, and performance obligations.
• Ability to identify procurement risks, bidder limitations, commercial gaps, scope omissions, pricing inconsistencies, and contractual exposure.
• Strong communication, negotiation, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English fluency.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple procurement packages, deadlines, bidder communications, and stakeholder inputs in a fast-paced project environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working on data center, hyperscale, mission-critical, industrial, infrastructure, or large-scale commercial building projects.
• Experience working in a PMC, owner’s representative, consultant, developer, client-side procurement, or major contractor environment.
• Previous experience working in Dubai, the UAE, or the wider GCC region.
• Strong knowledge of FIDIC-based contracts, EPC contract structures, tender governance, and commercial risk management.
• Master’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Procurement, Supply Chain, Commercial Management, or a related field.
• Professional certifications or memberships such as CIPS, MRICS, RICS, PMP, AACE, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of regional EPC contractor markets, supplier capability, procurement routes, and UAE/GCC construction delivery models.
• Experience using procurement, contract management, cost management, or document control platforms such as Aconex, Procore, Oracle Primavera Cloud, SAP, or similar systems.
• Arabic language capability is preferred but not required.

POSITION DETAILS

• Location (On-site): Dubai, United Arab Emirates
• Position: EPC Procurement Lead
• Position Classification: Salary-based full-time hours