Contract Manager

Siemens Gas and Power GmbH & Co. KG; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Siemens Energy is seeking an experienced contracts and legal professional to support Grid Technologies and its project business in the United States. You will analyze contracts, manage complex negotiations, identify risks, and advise project and site management on large-scale initiatives.

The role involves developing claims strategies, supporting change orders, and coordinating with global legal teams to protect enterprise interests. Travel 10% domestically.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years of proven experience handling complex contracts and managing multiple projects.
• Experience with commercial contracts in energy markets is preferred.
• Strong negotiation and analytical skills with ability to influence at senior levels.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support for customer contracts, consortium agreements, and sub-contracts to protect Siemens Energy’s rights.
• Support contractual and commercial matters, including change orders and drafting of correspondence.
• Identify technical, commercial, and contractual aspects to support project-specific claim strategies.
• Contribute to pursuing and defending claims by collecting project records and facts.
• Collaborate with legal teams to substantiate facts for quantum, extension of time, and defenses in arbitration.

Skills

Contract management

Negotiation

Risk analysis

Legal drafting

Stakeholder management

Education

Legal degree

Job description

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa are becoming Omterra. \"We energize society\" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

Be part of a team of Contract Managers and Legal Counsels, crafting the energy landscape of the future. In this role, you will support Siemens Energy's Grid Technologies and its project business by handling complex contractual matters. This includes analyzing contracts, identifying risks, negotiating agreements, and advising project and site management in large-scale projects.

You will act as a senior advisor to project leadership proactively ensuring consistent adherence to Siemens Energy’s contract and claims strategies throughout project execution, including proactively identifying, developing, and advancing contractual entitlements and claims, and resolution options, in accordance with established claims management processes. You will be exercising independent judgment on risk, claims strategy, and dispute positioning, and serving as a key escalation point and advisor for complex contractual issues.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Providing advice and support for customer contracts, consortium agreements, and sub-contracts to strictly protect Siemens Energy’s rights and entitlements.
• Supporting in contractual and commercial matters, such as the change order processes and reviewing and drafting of relevant correspondence.
• Identifying all relevant technical, commercial, and contractual aspects to support the set-up of project-specific claim strategies.
• Contributing to pursuing and defending incoming and outgoing claims by collecting and advising on relevant project records, documentation, and all pertinent facts.
• Collaborating with legal teams by providing support in substantiating relevant facts for claiming quantum, extension of time, and establishing factual defenses in arbitration proceedings.
• Performing quantum or delay analyses to establish causation for relevant events impacting the project schedule and/or the scope of work.

What You Bring

• 5-8 or more years of proven experience handling complex contracts and managing multiple projects simultaneously. Legal degree preferred, but equivalent work experience may be considered.
• Experience with commercial contracts is desired; experience in industrial or energy markets is preferred but not required.
• Self-driven individual with the ability to formulate logical and pragmatic approaches and make effective recommendations to address complex issues.
• Demonstrated expertise in claim management, leveraging strong negotiation skills to support matrixed teams and deliver effective, pragmatic recommendations.
• Highly adaptable and self-driven professional with excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of navigating changing priorities while engaging and influencing stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Willing to travel 10% domestically and internationally.

Applicants must be legally authorized for employment in the United States without need for current or future employer-sponsored work authorization. Siemens Energy employees with current visa sponsorship may be eligible for internal transfers.

About the Team

Grid Technologies

We are a team of professionals from many countries and diverse backgrounds, each with unique missions and challenges in the biggest energy company of the world. We collaborate with our stakeholders around the world to protect Siemens Energy and create safer environment.

Our central functions provide first-class services and solutions in the areas of cybersecurity, and thus actively support the business. \"Let’s make tomorrow different today\" is our genuine commitment at Siemens Energy to all customers and employees on the way to a sustainable future.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world’s electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

• Career growth and development opportunities; supportive work culture
• Company paid Health and wellness benefits

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