Contracts Manager

Baker Hughes; Nailsea; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical care

Life insurance

Disability programs

Financial programs

Wellbeing activities

Job summary

Baker Hughes in the United Kingdom is seeking a Contracts Manager to lead contracting and commercial aspects of SP&S deals across the lifecycle, ensuring compliance and risk management.

The role involves negotiating with customers, supporting bid teams, managing variation orders, invoicing controls, and cross-functional guidance, with a hybrid work model and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in law, business or related field.
• Fluency in English required with strong written and verbal communication.
• Proven negotiating skills and commercial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate contractual agreements with customers and support cross-functional teams in contract negotiations.
• Support bid teams with proposal development, risk management and deal governance.
• Manage commercial and contractual aspects of non-complex projects during execution, including variations and amendments.
• Ensure compliance with project contractual administration requirements including invoicing processes.
• Advise cross-functional teams on contractual matters and manage project risk and opportunities.

Skills

Fluent English

Negotiation

Communication

Teamwork

Willing to travel

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Law/Business or related experience

Job description

Contracts Manager

The Contracts Manager will be responsible to manage SP&S deals from a contracting and commercial perspective throughout the deal lifecycle, ensuring compliance with contract commitments and commercial risk assessment during all phases.

Responsibilities

• Negotiating contractual agreements with customers, and supporting cross-functional teams in the contract negotiation, ensuring alignment with defined deal strategies.
• Supporting the bid teams in proposal development, risk management (including deal risk and governance adherence - deal reviews, etc.), scope definition, pricing and incentives, customer communications and issue resolution.
• Managing commercial and contractual related aspects of non-complex projects during the execution phase, including but not limited to commercial arrangements, Variation Orders, contract negotiation, amendments, adherence to contract requirements, etc.
• Ensuring compliance with the project specific contractual administration requirements (establish and maintain the project variation control system, managing the invoicing process, etc.).
• Providing advice and assistance to cross-functional teams on contractual matters.
• Ensuring commercial risks are identified and managed across the project scopes of work by controlling the overall project risk and opportunity review and reporting process.
• Managing negotiations in line with contract requirements, including supporting the formulation and negotiation of project contractual claims and counter claims.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Law/Business or related experience.
• Fluent in English.
• Understanding of key contractual and commercial risks and areas for opportunity and ability to lead project risk review process and assessments.
• Negotiating Skills: to secure favorable outcomes, having the flexibility to understand and negotiate alternative contractual and commercial positions with customers (subject to approval).
• Commercial acumen and business understanding.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Effective team player.
• Willing to travel.

Work Environment

Hybrid model: 4 days from office and 1 day from home (remote).

Benefits

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities.
• Comprehensive private medical care options.
• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs.
• Tailored financial programs.
• Additional elected or voluntary benefits.

Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Sales Senior Specialist - Proposals.

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.