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About the Role

The Contract Risk Manager is responsible for driving contract excellence and risk management for complex commercial agreements, including negotiating, drafting, and managing contracts to ensure compliance and an optimal risk/reward balance.

Responsibilities

• Manage contracts from initiation through delivery, ensuring effective handover.
• Negotiate and redline commercial agreements, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, optimized solutions for customers.
• Identify and mitigate contractual risks, validating the risk/reward balance.
• Coordinate multi-stakeholder engagement throughout contract development, including presenting risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership.
• Ensure compliance with commercial risk assessment procedures.
• Administer assigned proposals and contracts, including customer interactions, negotiations, and contract interpretation.
• Collaborate with internal functions such as Manufacturing, Product Management, Sourcing, Engineering, Finance, and Legal.
• Lead proposal, negotiation, and contract administration activities with minimal supervision.
• Support managers and senior contract personnel on assigned contracts.
• Liaise with functional organizations to ensure clear communication of contractual requirements.
• Champion Lean practices, digital tools, and rigorous contracting standards to drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Law, Finance, or Supply Chain.
• Demonstrated expertise in redlining, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
• Experience in managing commercial contracts in a corporate or law firm environment.
• Experience in High-Tech industries such as NDT, Aerospace, Electronics, Automotive, Energy, Renewables.
• Proven understanding of German & UK jurisdictional law and government contracts.
• Strong team player, interacting with all supporting functions and ability to work in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.
• Experience in complex tendering, contract management and negotiations.
• Ability to manage and execute multiple commercial opportunities to successful completion.
• Ability to take ownership, execute, and shape results in a global-matrix organization.
• Proven capability to establish good relationships with customers and build trust.
• Never-give-up attitude, problem solver, works independently.
• Willingness to travel as business requires.
• Fluent in German and English (oral and written).
• Excellent all-round communication and storytelling skills.
• Knowledge of CLM software (DocuSign, Icertis, Conga), Office 365 Suite, Opportunity Management & Risk Tools (e.g., Deal Machine).
• Preferred experience with large-scale high tech global companies, NDT, customer contracts, long-term agreements, and NDAs.

Skills

• Contract negotiation
• Contract drafting
• Risk management
• Commercial agreements
• Compliance
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Stakeholder engagement
• Proposal management
• Contract administration
• Communication
• Storytelling
• CLM software
• Office 365 Suite
• Opportunity Management
• Risk Tools

Location

• Remote
• Hybrid

Work Type

• Contract
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimal supervision
• Senior

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

• EUR 60,800 To 83,600

Benefits

• Flexible work-life balance policies
• Comprehensive medical and insurance coverage
• Life and disability benefits
• Financial and retirement programs
• Additional voluntary benefits

About the Company

• Our innovations have shaped the energy industry for over a century.
• We foster an inclusive environment where employees are empowered to grow, innovate, and bring their authentic selves to work.

Equal Opportunity

• We recognize that everyone is different and are committed to providing flexible working arrangements that help you perform at your best.
• Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes.