Contract Associate

Jacobs Solutions Inc.; Gurgaon; Hybrid; INR 700,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs Solutions Inc. seeks a Contracts Associate in the Global Contracting Center to manage contract lifecycle activities, review and draft commercial agreements, and support negotiations with customers and project teams.

The role requires a legally trained professional with strong analytical and risk assessment skills and experience across professional services and related industries. You will collaborate with Legal, Sales, and Operations to ensure compliant, commercially favorable outcomes

Qualifications

• Law graduate with 3–5 years of post-qualification experience in contracting.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Exposure to public sector or seller-side contracting preferred.
• Solid understanding of contract law and risk allocation.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, redline, and negotiate client contracts, amendments, subcontract agreements, task orders, change requests, NDAs, teaming agreements, and other commercial documents.
• Support RFP, RFQ, and tender reviews from a contractual and compliance perspective.
• Prepare contract summaries, memo, risk assessments, and briefing notes for internal reviews and approvals.
• Identify contractual, legal, and commercial risks and propose solutions aligned with policies and risk profile.
• Support business teams during contract negotiations with customers and stakeholders.
• Assist Regional Legal Counsel with complex contractual issues and escalations.

Skills

Contract review

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Risk assessment

Legal analysis

Education

LL.B.

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

As a Contracts Associate within the Global Contracting Center (GCC), you will partner closely with the Contract Management Group, Legal, Sales, Business Operations, and Project Delivery teams throughout the contract lifecycle. You will serve as a trusted advisor on contractual matters, supporting commercial objectives while ensuring appropriate risk identification, assessment, and mitigation.

This role requires a commercially focused legal professional with strong contract review, drafting, negotiation, and analytical skills who can independently manage a broad range of client-facing agreements and support strategic business initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Review, draft, redline, and negotiate client contracts, amendments, subcontract agreements, task orders, change requests, non-disclosure agreements, teaming agreements, and other commercial documents.
• Support RFP, RFQ, and tender reviews from a contractual and compliance perspective.
• Prepare contract summaries, representation & certification memo, risk assessments, and briefing notes for internal reviews and approvals.
• Identify contractual, legal, and commercial risks and propose solutions consistent with company policies and risk profile.
• Support business teams during contract negotiations with customers and project stakeholders.
• Assist Regional Legal Counsel with complex contractual issues and escalations.

Here’s what you’ll need

• Law Graduate/LL.B., from a recognized university with 3-5 years of relevant post-qualification experience in contract review, drafting and negotiation.
• Demonstrated experience supporting preferably seller side contracting for professional services, engineering, consulting, technology, construction, or infrastructure organizations.
• Preferred experience in reviewing and negotiating public sector customer facing commercial agreements.
• Strong understanding of contract law principles, risk allocation provisions, and commercial contracting practices.

AtJacobs we value people. Having the right balance of belonging, career and lifestyle enables us to consistently deliver and exceed clients’ expectations.

Working alongside industry leaders, you will have the opportunity to develop your career working on key projects in an environment which encourages collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation. To support your professional growth,

• Jacobs flexible working arrangements, extended leave options and a host of social, health and wellbeing events and initiatives will underpin our commitment to you.

At Jacobs it’s all about what you do, not where you are, which counts!

We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team via Careers Support .