SENIOR CONTRACT MANAGER (m/f/d)

To be driving the tender, negotiation, and management of the contracts within the O&M Offshore business. This role will include working closely with teams from the Construction, Operations, Legal, Insurance, Financial and Group Purchasing teams to ensure contracts are procured and managed effectively.

Belonging to the O&M Contract Department, you will assist in defining contracting strategies and plans, tendering, negotiating and (in some cases) managing multi-million offshore Service contracts. With responsibility for identifying, assessing, and creating procedures, to support site functions; and managing contractual & commercial risks and seek out opportunities to optimize and drive the performance of the service supplier contracts.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Support the Site and technical teams with the negotiation and management of contracts for the Offshore O&M Services.
• Facilitate the contractual and commercial implementation of contracts including reporting and other contractual deliverables. This will include undertaking detailed contract reviews and advising on how to interpret and apply key contract provisions on the day-to-day operational clauses of the contract.
• Assist in developing mitigation strategies in line with the contract terms, this will include proactively providing recommendations and advice on how to avoid any additional cost and, where this is not possible, how to minimize the costs of legitimate claims.
• Support in negotiations of claims and variations with contractors including the preparation of notes of advice and commercial drafting.
• Advice on key commercial risks from an O&M perspective for supply contracts on emerging projects.
• Ensure SPR best practices and processes are implemented and applied in contract management ensuring involvement and interfacing with key company functions such as Purchasing, Insurance, Financial, Legal, e delivery of the project’s interests in negotiating with the contractors; etc

MAIN FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

• Driving Tender and negotiation of contracts
• Management and execution of contracts.
• Claims management.

REQUIREMENTS

-Degree and professional qualification in relevant discipline – Engineering, Contract Management, or commercially orientated qualification

• Experience in commercial and contractual aspects of engineering.
• Experience with warranty claims and negotiations.
• Proven ability to manage the negotiation of multi-contracts in competing timescales.
• Postgraduate experience in industry with significant experience in Offshore Wind, Onshore Wind or similar industry.
• German Fluent
• English Fluent