Contract Advisor

Elisa Industriq France; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Saipem, a global leader in energy and infrastructure, invites applications for a Contract Advisor role at Kingston upon Thames. You will provide contractual support, draft and negotiate terms, and manage contract risk across client, partner and subcontractor agreements.

This contractor role is full time, outside IR35, with a hybrid working model and flexible hours to support work-life balance. Start date is immediate upon selection.

Qualifications

• Proven experience on similar role, ideally within commercial phase for wind offshore project.
• Law degree or similar.
• Proficiency in professional English writing.
• Strong legal expertise, including LOGIC, FIDIC, Incoterms, and both common and civil law systems with a focus on contract law and partnership agreements.
• Good knowledge of EPC contracts, platform components, offshore plants and subsea fields installation.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to assess risks, make informed decisions, and align actions with short- and long-term business goals while adapting to market trends and organizational needs.

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate contract management activities ensuring that all aspects of the contract are correctly addressed
• Review and draft all contractual documents and define the most appropriate clauses of the contract with clients, partners and subcontractors/suppliers and participate to the relevant negotiations
• Identify the most appropriate contractual solutions and contribute to the definition of optimal risk profile for the Company, ensuring that the defined risk profile is adequately reflected in the relevant contractual documents
• Support the Commercial Function to perform contract risk assessments (implement Golden Rules and Silver Guidelines) in line with Industrial Risk methodology
• Manage the resources involved in contract management activities, develop relevant professional competences and career paths, and identify project staffing needs
• Apply Saipem guidelines and standards relevant to contract management
• Provide all necessary reports regarding contract management to the relevant internal clients (Group, Company and Contract Management function)
• Ensure collection and sharing of lessons learned, feedbacks and returns of experience on issues/criticalities encountered during contract management activities
• Ensure the flow-down and transfer of contractual risk from the contract with the client to the purchase orders and agreements with vendors and sub-contractors, identifying provisions that shall be transferred to passive contracts in relation to obligations of the main contract or due to the specific scope of work
• Provide contractual support for the negotiation of loans on the markets, bank sureties, active and passive guarantees, parent company guarantees and indemnity letters
• Provide support, as necessary, to the Project Contract Manager
• Review regulatory requirements
• Review and update and complete all partner agreements according to contract/project development
• Coordinate the contractual documentation filling Organise Contract Management internal handover meeting
• Ensure the contribution to the Legal function for the management of preliminary activities of litigations and contribute, as necessary, during the subsequent phases

Skills

Contract management

English writing

Risk assessment

Education

Law degree or equivalent

Job description

Join Saipem and engineer a sustainable future.
We are a global leader in engineering and construction for the energy and infrastructure sectors, delivering complex onshore and offshore projects worldwide. Driven by technological innovation as "One Company", our 30,000 people from over 130 nationalities in more than 50 countries work every day to enable the energy transition toward Net Zero. At Saipem, your expertise helps shape the future globally for environmental sustainability.

Purpose of the position: As Contract Advisor you will provide contractual support to analyse, draft and negotiate the terms and conditions in Client contracts and Partner, Vendor
or Subcontractor Agreements in line with Saipem guidelines and procedures during conduct of business.You will propose suitable contract risk strategies in business acquisition phase that are favourable to Saipem during the performance of the contracts and / or agreements. Explore contractual solutions and alternatives to minimize risks and optimize opportunities during the contract negotiation in the commercial phase

How can you support us?

• Manage and coordinate contract management activities ensuring that all aspects of the contract are correctly addressed
• Review and draft all contractual documents and define the most appropriate clauses of the contract with clients, partners and subcontractors/suppliers and participate to the relevant negotiations
• Identify the most appropriate contractual solutions and contribute to the definition of optimal risk profile for the Company, ensuring that the defined risk profile is adequately reflected in the relevant contractual documents
• Support the Commercial Function to perform contract risk assessments (implement Golden Rules and Silver Guidelines) in line with Industrial Risk methodology
• Manage the resources involved in contract management activities, develop relevant professional competences and career paths, and identify project staffing needs
• Apply Saipem guidelines and standards relevant to contract management
• Provide all necessary reports regarding contract management to the relevant internal clients (Group, Company and Contract Management function)
• Ensure collection and sharing of lessons learned, feedbacks and returns of experience on issues/criticalities encountered during contract management activities
• Ensure the flow-down and transfer of contractual risk from the contract with the client to the purchase orders and agreements with vendors and sub-contractors, identifying provisions that shall be transferred to passive contracts in relation to obligations of the main contract or due to the specific scope of work
• Provide contractual support for the negotiation of loans on the markets, bank sureties, active and passive guarantees, parent company guarantees and indemnity letters
• Provide support, as necessary, to the Project Contract Manager
• Review regulatory requirements
• Review and update and complete all partner agreements according to contract/project development
• Coordinate the contractual documentation filling Organise Contract Management internal handover meeting
• Ensure the contribution to the Legal function for the management of preliminary activities of litigations and contribute, as necessary, during the subsequent phases

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience on similar role, ideally within commercial phase for wind offshore project.
• Law degree or similar.
• Proficiency in professional English writing.
• Strong legal expertise, including LOGIC, FIDIC, Incoterms, and both common and civil law systems with a focus on contract law and partnership agreements.
• Good knowledge of the Company’s core business areas such as EPC contracts, platform components, Offshore plants and subsea fields installation.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to assess risks, make informed decisions, and align actions with short- and long-term business goals while adapting to market trends and organizational needs.

Please note: All applicants must reside in the UK and possess full, permanent UK right-to-work status, as Saipem is unable to offer sponsorships.

What we can offer to you:

• Contractor role, full time, outside IR35
• Hybrid working model: Smart Working options and flexible hours to help you achieve a better work-life balance.
• Location: Kingston upon Thames
• Start date: as soon as a successful candidate is identified

We support your development! Do you feel you might not fit this role perfectly? If you think you can contribute to our business development in the future, don’t hesitate to apply anyway through our spontaneous application form !

We embrace diversity! At Saipem, we believe that innovation thrives through diversity. Our culture is built on mutual respect, collaboration, inclusion and the belief that our differences drive our progress.

Safety and Sustainability matter to us! Operating in difficult and at times extreme situations, the focus is always on the health and safety of people and the preservation of the natural ecosystem.

Find out more in our career page here and our Instagram profile here .

One vision, many paths, limitless possibilities.

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