Contracts Advisor

Airswift; Perth; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

Airswift is seeking a Contracts Adviser for a 12 months Casual Contract Opportunity based in Perth. You will support end-to-end contracting and procurement activities, manage contract lifecycles, mitigate risk, and ensure governance compliance within a dynamic project environment.

You will engage stakeholders, lead commercial negotiations, develop scopes of work, and support strategic sourcing initiatives across multiple spend categories.

Qualifications

• Experience managing end-to-end contracting activities within energy, resources, infrastructure, or related sectors.
• Strong knowledge of sourcing strategies, tendering, contract development and negotiation.
• Experience with EPC, EPCM, fabrication, rates-based or construction contracts.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to analyse procurement and spend data to support sourcing decisions.
• Exposure to claims management, dispute resolution and risk mitigation.
• Experience using SAP, Ariba, CLMS or similar procurement platforms.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end contract lifecycle activities from sourcing through award and post-award support.
• Lead tendering activities including bid evaluations, negotiations, and award processes.
• Develop relationships with internal stakeholders to forecast demand.
• Support scope of work development and technical tender evaluations.
• Provide commercial and contractual guidance to contract owners and project stakeholders.
• Support post-award management, supplier performance, and contract variations.
• Assist with category management and strategic sourcing across spend categories.
• Ensure governance-approved procurement and contracting processes.
• Ensure compliance with legislation, policies, and business requirements.
• Support local content, ethical sourcing, supplier diversity and sustainability objectives.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Negotiation

Contract administration

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Commerce/Law/Business/Procurement

CIPS certification (preferred)

Tools

SAP

Ariba

Contract Lifecycle Management Systems (CLMS)

Job description

Contracts Adviser

12 months Casual Contract Opportunity | Perth-Based

About The Role

An exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Contracts Adviser to support end-to-end contracting and procurement activities within a dynamic project environment. Working closely with internal stakeholders, you will play a key role in delivering commercially sound contracting outcomes, managing contract lifecycle activities, mitigating risk, and ensuring compliance with relevant governance frameworks.

This role will suit a contracts professional who enjoys stakeholder engagement, commercial negotiations, contract development, and strategic sourcing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end contract lifecycle activities from sourcing strategy through to contract award and post-award support.
• Lead tendering activities including bid evaluations, negotiations, recommendations, and contract award processes.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders to understand business requirements and forecast future demand.
• Support the development of scopes of work and facilitate technical tender evaluation processes.
• Provide commercial and contractual guidance to contract owners and project stakeholders.
• Support post-award contract management activities, supplier performance management, and contract variations.
• Assist with category management and strategic sourcing initiatives across multiple spend categories.
• Manage procurement and contracting approvals through relevant governance frameworks.
• Ensure contracting activities comply with applicable legislation, policies, and business requirements.
• Support initiatives relating to local content, ethical sourcing, supplier diversity, and sustainability objectives.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Experience managing end-to-end contracting activities within the energy, resources, infrastructure, or related sectors.
• Strong knowledge of sourcing strategies, tendering processes, contract development, negotiation, and contract administration.
• Experience working with various contract models such as EPC, EPCM, fabrication, rates-based, or construction contracts.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to analyse procurement and spend data to support sourcing and category management decisions.
• Experience reviewing contract terms, preparing commercial clarifications, and supporting contract negotiations.
• Exposure to claims management, dispute resolution, and commercial risk mitigation.
• Experience using SAP, Ariba, Contract Lifecycle Management Systems (CLMS), or similar procurement platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree qualification in Commerce, Law, Business, Supply Chain, Procurement, or a related discipline.
• Professional qualifications in Procurement and Supply Chain Management (e.g. CIPS) highly regarded.

What's on Offer

• Perth-based opportunity.
• Exposure to complex contracting and procurement activities.
• Work across a diverse portfolio of commercial agreements and strategic sourcing initiatives.
• Collaborative environment with strong stakeholder engagement and development opportunities.

If you are a commercially minded contracts professional looking for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

About Airswift

Airswift is an international workforce solutions provider within the energy, process and infrastructure industries. Airswift serves as a strategic partner to our clients, offering a turnkey workforce solution to capture and deliver the top talent needed to complete successful projects by aligning with the unique needs of our clients.

With over 1000 employees and 9,000+ contractors operating in over 130 countries, our geographical reach and pool of talent available is unmatched in the industry and the level of experience, exposure and expertise that the organization has is unparalleled.

Only candidates with the right to work in Australia will be considered (Australia Citizen, PR Holder, or Valid Australia working VISA)