Senior Contract Manager - Hernieuwbare Energie

Job Description

Are you an experienced and proactive contract professional, and do you want to leave your mark on the global energy industry? If so, we want to hear from you!

In your new position as Senior Contract Manager in the Renewables division, you will be a valuable member of the dedicated Contract Management Team whose mission is to ensure effective and compliant contract management and execution across large-scale EPC and service projects. You will have the chance to drive and improve our contract management framework while ensuring the commercial success of the projects.

Your place of work will be in one of our offices in Denmark (Esbjerg or Copenhagen) or in Poland (Gdynia), depending on your preference and location. The position is full-time, and you can expect to have 10-30 days of travel per year.

"We are looking for a colleague who can support our EPC and service projects in achieving success by confidently managing complex contract environments, raising commercial awareness in project teams and contributing to the development of the Contract Management Team through exchange of experience and lessons learned, and continuous process improvement." - Grant Bruce Hewitt, Head of Contract Management, Renewables

Your tasks & responsibilities

As a Senior Contract Manager, your responsibility will, first of all, be to conduct excellent contract life cycle management of EPC contracts and consortium agreements which includes:

• Contract reviews during the tender phase, ensuring flowdowns to supply chain contracts, and participation in EPC and service contract negotiations
• Raising awareness of contract terms within the project team, and acting as the project's advisor on project contract and commercial matters
• Identifying and managing commercial risks in collaboration with project teams
• Close cooperation with the project procurement lead to ensure that flow-down contract rights and obligations are maintained
• Ensuring contract compliance and governance
• Management of variations and claims
• Preparing reports to management and customers and ensuring structured communication
• Capturing lessons learned and contributing to continuous process improvement

Your profile & qualifications

We are looking for a confident and collaborative contract management professional, who is passionate to ensure commercial success, progress and the safe and high-quality execution of projects. You have a proactive and structured approach to your work and are eager to optimize and improve.

To succeed in this position, we imagine that you have:

• A master's degree in law/commercial law or a related commercial discipline
• Preferably 5+ years of experience with large scale EPC contracts in the offshore industry or any related industry
• Extensive experience with contract and claims management
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is expected, fluency in German (written and spoken) will be an advantage

Furthermore, it is important that you have a flexible, empathic and team-oriented mindset as you will work closely with both internal and external stakeholders.

The Contract Management team takes pride in supporting and bringing out the best in each other. You will join a team where good interpersonal skills, humour, social activities, and the readiness to go the extra mile for your colleagues are fundamental to our team spirit.