Contract Manager (m/f/d)

H-E Parts; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

An international energy company is seeking a Contract Manager to provide expertise in legal and contractual matters across various European projects. The ideal candidate will possess a Law Degree and 5+ years of contract management experience. Responsibilities include drafting and negotiating agreements, enforcing contractual interests, and supporting project teams. This role offers a competitive salary and a range of benefits including health insurance and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Health insurance

Pension fund

Flexible working type

Flexible working hours

Qualifications

• 5 years of contract management experience from tendering to execution.
• Strong understanding of contract law and regulations.
• Ability to lead and manage projects and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional advice on legal/contractual topics.
• Support sales team in drafting, negotiating, and finalizing agreements.
• Enforce and defend contractual interests against customers and suppliers.
• Establish and enforce standard change methodologies in contracts.

Skills

Contract management

Legal expertise

Project management

Fluent in English

Communication

Education

Law Degree or related Master's qualification

Job description

Location:

Monselice, Padova, Italy

Job ID:

R0088091

Date Posted:

2025-10-31

Company Name:

HITACHI ENERGY ITALY S.P.A.

Profession (Job Category):

Legal, Compliance & Audit

Job Schedule:

Full time

Remote:

No

Job Description:

To support our team within the Business Transformers, we are looking for 3 Contract Managers to provide professional advice on a broad range of legal/contractual topics related to the business unit in different European locations.

• Work in close cooperation and coordination with HUB Transformers Contract Management to have a common approach and implementation of BU’s strategy on Contract Management and implement guidelines, instructions, common tools, processes, and templates as defined by BU Transformers function. Provides contractual domain expertise in implementation, execution and administration.

• Support the sales team during risk review process: draft, negotiate and finalize agreements during the sales phases with support of local legal, if required.

• I dentify the contract baseline (including terms and conditions, specifications, drawings, estimate, proposal, schedule and other documents incorporated in the contract) and highlights areas of potential risk.

• Enforce and defend Hitachi Energy's contractual interests against customers and suppliers during the whole of a project life cycle, including monitoring and assessment of changes and deviations, as well as defending and enforcing claims.

• Ensure timely and accurate execution of commercial aspects in portfolio of contracts (i.e. payments, claims, variation orders, warranties, provisions, guarantees, etc.).

• Establish and enforces standard change methodologies in portfolio of contracts to identify changes and quantify the additional time and compensation due to Hitachi Energy per the contract, defines approval requirements and communicates changes to the customer.

• Support Project Management during execution phase to develop, implement risk mitigation and opportunity plan.

Your background:

• Law Degree or a related field Master qualification.

• 5 years of experience in contract management from tendering to execution and/or a related field.

• Strong understanding of contract law and regulations, particularly those relevant to the region.

• Excellent communication and ability to work under pressure

• Fluent in English. Any additional language is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage projects and cross-functional teams.

• Willingness to travel as per business needs

More about us

We offer you the opportunity to work with fantastic people and develop yourself on projects that present great technical challenges and have a real impact. Wide range of benefits: health insurance, pension fund, welfare, flexible working type, flexible working hours.

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