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About the Role

Second Foundation is seeking a detail-oriented and commercially aware Contract Manager to join their origination team, focusing on the German market. This role serves as the operational backbone of the contracting process, translating commercial deals into structured agreements and ensuring the contract landscape is accurate, current, and audit-ready. The position involves close collaboration with sales, portfolio management, and legal teams, as well as client interaction.

Responsibilities

Draft and manage direct marketing agreements, flexibility agreements, and related annexes using standardized templates.
Adapt contracts based on specific asset structures, agreed commercial terms, and client requirements.
Ensure all deviations from standard templates are clearly documented, structured, and traceable.
Continuously review and improve contract templates by identifying gaps, ambiguities, or inefficiencies.
Monitor relevant regulatory developments and ensure contracts and templates remain compliant.
Coordinate with Legal and Portfolio Management when implementing regulatory updates.
Identify non-standard or potentially risky contractual clauses and escalate them for review and approval.
Own the full contract execution lifecycle, from first draft to final countersignature.
Manage and track the signature process, ensuring timely follow-ups with clients and internal stakeholders.
Act as the main point of contact for all contract-related questions during execution.
Proactively monitor outstanding signatures and escalate delays.
Own and maintain the central contract register in SharePoint, ensuring accuracy of commercial parameters, term dates, renewal options, asset references, version history, and audit trail.
Proactively flag upcoming renewals, termination windows, and material changes to origination and portfolio management teams.
Own regular pipeline status reporting to management.
Handle sensitive commercial contract data with discretion and in line with data protection and confidentiality requirements.
Act as the primary contact for clients on all contract-related matters.
Ensure internal alignment with trading desk, portfolio management, and legal teams.
Own the contract-related response to due diligence processes and data requests from auditors or regulatory bodies.

Requirements

A degree in law, business law, business administration, economics, or a related field is preferred. Equivalent professional experience and demonstrable expertise in contract management will equally be considered.
2–5 years of experience in a contracts, legal operations, or commercial administration role, ideally within the energy sector.
Solid familiarity with the German legal and regulatory framework (especially EEG, EnWG, BGB, and HGB).
Familiarity with contract structures related to power purchase and direct marketing agreements is a strong plus.
Fluent in German and English (written and spoken).
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Word (track changes, template management), Excel (contract trackers, status overviews), and SharePoint (document management and version control).
Structured and methodical, with a strong eye for contractual risk and non-standard terms.
Professional client-facing manner with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages.
Working knowledge of related energy market regulations: GPKE, MaBiS, WiM, NAV, StromNZV, RedispatchVO, MaStRV, and/or BDSG/DSGVO.
Prior exposure to the operational practicalities of the direct marketing business, e.g. asset onboarding, contract lifecycle, or customer management in a DV context.
Experience with digital signature platforms (e.g. DocuSign or equivalent).
Exposure to trading or portfolio management environment.

Skills

Contract Creation & Administration
Contract Execution Tracking
Contract Register & Reporting
Cross-functional Coordination
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, SharePoint)
German legal and regulatory framework
Power purchase agreements
Direct marketing agreements
German language proficiency
English language proficiency
Client-facing communication
Risk assessment
Digital signature platforms
Trading
Portfolio management

Location

Prague (CZ)
Zug (CH)
Berlin (DE)
Charlotte (USA)
Tokyo (JP)

Work Type

Flexible working arrangements

Experience Level

2-5 years

Education Level

Degree in law, business law, business administration, economics, or related field preferred
Equivalent professional experience considered

Salary/Compensations

Competitive remuneration package with attractive variable components

Benefits

Individual training opportunities

About the Company

Second Foundation is a global energy trading company with around 450 employees.
Specializes in trading in power markets and integrating and optimizing renewable energy and battery storage systems.
Actively expanding its own asset base, with a primary focus on battery storage.