Senior Pre-Construction Contract Manager - Data Centre Program

Turner & Townsend; Paris; In loco; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Senior Contract Manager to join our France-based team. You will provide EMEA‑level contract negotiation and administration for multiple projects within the data centre sector, ensuring governance, compliance, and timely execution across diverse stakeholders.

The role requires a degree in a related field and proven experience in contract management, procurement, and supplier negotiations, with Fluent English and French.

Competenze

• Degree in Law, Business, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in contract administration, contract management, procurement, or commercial management within complex construction projects.
• Strong understanding of contract law and the commercial implications of contractual clauses.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing, negotiating, and administering supplier and service agreements.
• Proven capability in navigating complex supplier negotiations and managing cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of procurement and tendering processes.
• Excellent written communication skills and a high level of personal organisation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced, international environment.
• Experience supporting contract compliance and jurisdiction‑specific requirements.
• Fluent in English and French, both written and spoken.

Mansioni

• Provide EMEA wide administration support and project‑level contractual expertise.
• Attend project kick‑off meetings where contractual support is required.
• Ensure contract intake processes are completed by project teams.
• Identify whether vendors have governing agreements and provide tailored advice.
• Review contract amendments against requirements and best practice.
• Lead negotiations with vendor commercial and legal representatives.
• Maintain up‑to‑date tracker of contracts being negotiated.
• Attend weekly procurement calls and escalate unresolved issues.
• Support stakeholders by explaining contract deviations during tender analysis.
• Manage jurisdictional nuance and compliance requirements.
• Review change orders in line with SLAs.
• Support onboarding and training of new team members.
• Create and update guidance documentation on site‑level contract administration.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop reporting templates and performance metrics.

Conoscenze

Contract management

Procurement

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Contract law

English & French

Formazione

Degree in Law or related field

Descrizione del lavoro

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

Turner & Townsend are leaders in professional construction services to the Data Centre sector globally. Due to the continued success and expansion of our Data Centre business in the Europe we are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Contract Manager, based in France.

In this role you will provide EMEA program-level contract negotiation and contract administration support, delivering contractual expertise across multiple projects while ensuring compliance, consistency, and effective contract governance throughout the pre-contract lifecycle for one of our global key clients.

Key responsibilities

• Provide EMEA wide administration support and project-level contractual expertise.
• Attend project kick‑off meetings where contractual support is required, engaging with all relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure contract intake processes are completed by the appropriate project teams for all required construction agreements.
• Identify whether vendors have current governing agreements in place and provide tailored advice where they don’t exist.
• Review requested contract amendments against established requirements and best practice.
• Lead negotiations with vendor commercial and legal representatives to framework conclusion.
• Maintain and manage an up‑to‑date tracker of all contracts being negotiated and drafted.
• Attend weekly procurement calls, provide review checklists, maintain comment trackers, and escalate unresolved issues for resolution.
• Support stakeholders by highlighting and explaining contract deviations during tender analysis and recommendation stage.
• Manage jurisdictional nuance and compliance requirements.
• Review change orders in line with established service level agreements (SLAs).
• Support the onboarding and training of new team members.
• Create and update guidance documentation relating to site‑level contract administration.
• Collaborate with global and regional stakeholders to support development of reporting templates and provide regular program‑level performance reporting and metrics.

Qualifications

Required skills & experience

• Degree in Law, Business, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience in contract administration, contract management, procurement, or commercial management within complex construction projects.
• Strong understanding of contract law and the commercial implications of contractual clauses.
• Demonstrated experience reviewing, negotiating, and administering supplier and service agreements.
• Proven capability in navigating complex supplier negotiations and managing cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of procurement and tendering processes.
• Excellent written communication skills and a high level of personal organisation.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced, international environment.
• Experience supporting contract compliance and jurisdiction‑specific requirements.
• Fluent in English and French, both written and spoken.

Additional Information

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