Contract Risk Manager (M/F/D)

Contract and Risk Manager (M/F/D)

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Role Overview

Contract risk manager is responsible for driving contract excellence and risk management for complex commercial agreements. Candidate is responsible for negotiating, drafting, and managing contracts, ensuring compliance and optimal risk/reward balance.

Responsibilities

• Managing contracts from initiation through delivery, ensuring effective handover.


• Negotiating and redlining commercial agreements, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, optimized solutions for customers


• Identifying and mitigating contractual risks, validating the risk/reward balance.


• Coordinating multi-stakeholder engagement throughout contract development including presenting risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership.


• Ensuring compliance with commercial risk assessment procedures.


• Administering assigned proposals and contracts, including customer interactions, negotiations, and contract interpretation.


• Collaborating with internal functions such as Manufacturing, Product Management, Sourcing, Engineering, Finance, and Legal.


• Leading proposal, negotiation, and contract administration activities with minimal supervision


• Supporting managers and senior contract personnel on assigned contracts


• Liaising with functional organizations to ensure clear communication of contractual requirements.


• Championing lean practices, digital tools, and rigorous contracting standards to drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (Business, Law, Finance, or Supply Chain)


• Demonstrated expertise in redlining, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements


• Experience managing commercial contracts in a corporate or law firm environment.


• Experience in High-Tech industries such as NDT, Aerospace, Electronics, Automotive, Energy, Renewables


• Proven understanding of German & UK jurisdictional law and government contracts


• Strong team player, interacting with all supporting functions and ability to work in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.


• Experience in complex tendering, contract management and negotiations


• Ability to manage and execute multiple commercial opportunities to successful completion


• Ability to take ownership, execute and shape results in a global-matrix organization


• Proven capability to establish good relationship with customers and build trust.


• Never-give-up attitude, problem solver, works independently.


• Willingness to travel as business requires


• Fluent in German and English (oral and written) and excellent all-round communication and storytelling skills.

• Knowledge of CLM software (DocuSign, Icertis, Conga), Office 365 Suite, Opportunity Management & Risk Tools e.g. Deal Machine


• Preferred to have experience with large-scale high tech global companies, NDT, customer contracts, long term agreements and NDAs

Benefits

• Flexible work-life balance policies


• Comprehensive medical and insurance coverage


• Life and disability benefits


• Financial and retirement programs


• Additional voluntary benefits

For Italy: The initial pay range for this position will be EUR 60,800 To 83,600. The provisions of the Contratto Collettivo Energia e Petrolio will be applied to this position. Art. 32 and Art. 34 of that collective bargaining agreement relate to pay.

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Sales Advisor - Risk Mitigation