Contracts & Governance Lead

Bilfinger Berger SE; Stone; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in the UK is seeking a Contracts & Governance Lead to oversee contract reviews and ensure compliance with corporate requirements. The role involves extensive interactions across various departments and with clients, requiring a minimum of 5 years' experience in contract roles and strong organisational and communication skills. The ideal candidate will have a degree in a related field and a thorough understanding of contract legal terms and risks.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a contracts based role within a deadline driven environment.
• Excellent understanding of risk and liability in contracts.
• Experience in leading client contract negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Present and explain the contract position during internal bid reviews.
• Manage proposal governance processes and ensure compliance.
• Prepare management and sales reports highlighting contract risks.

Skills

Contract legal terminology understanding

Commercial judgement

MS Office skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Education

Degree level qualification in a related subject

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

Bilfinger UK is a leading engineering and maintenance provider, supporting customers across the chemical & petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals & biopharma, power & energy, utilities, renewables and food & beverage markets. We enhance the efficiency of assets, ensuring a high level of availability and reducing maintenance costs.

We have extensive experience in offshore and onshore facilities; specialising in asset management services throughout all life cycle phases from consulting, engineering, manufacturing, assembly, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning.

This commitment is delivered by an experienced and highly competent workforce of over 4,500 employees operating from 14 offices in strategic industrial hubs, upholding the highest standards of safety, compliance and quality.

The Role

The Contracts & Governance Lead is responsible for completing group contract reviews covering all aspects of risk, liability, bonds, liens etc and liaising with Bilfinger UK contracts & legal team to ensure compliance with company contractual minimum and risk classification requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Contracts:

• Responsible for presenting and explaining the contract position during internal bid review and sign off meetings.
• Liaise with customers as required during contract clarifications and negotiations phases of the sales cycle.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve standard contract positions with ongoing clients in accordance with company requirements.
• Maintain accurate and concise records to ensure clarity and traceability.

Governance:

• Responsible for managing nZero Group proposal governance process, liaising with relevant stakeholders to generate governance packs ensuring compliance with company requirements for bid approval and sign off.
• Responsible for ensuring governance packs are completed by the relevant stakeholders, reviewed in readiness for bid review and sign off meetings.

General:

• Liaise with Bilfinger contract and legal team and management as required.
• Liaise with all nZero Group departments as required.
• Act as primary point of contact and subject matter expert within the nZero Group for contracts and governance.
• Responsible for the management of contract and governance documentation within the quote folder structure and Salesforce crm system, ensuring visibility of contract status, risks, deviations and response timelines.
• Prepare management reports and sales facing reports as required to highlight contract risks, trends, delays and improvement opportunities.
• Comply with company policies, procedures and employee code of conduct.

Skills & Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a contracts based role working within a deadline driven environment.
• Thorough understanding and knowledge of construction, services and general supply contracts including:NEC,Yellow Book,Red Book, other standard contract types and bespoke client contracts
• Excellent understanding of contract legal terminology and how these relate to associated risks and liabilities.
• Experience of completing detailed contract reviews and marking up of contracts/deviation logs to mitigate and remove risk and liabilities etc for presentation internally and to clients.
• Strong commercial judgement with the ability to understand the balance between risk and revenue.
• Ability to communicate clearly to explain contract risk, liabilities and mitigation to decision makers.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively across all levels of Bilfinger and client business structures.
• Ability to lead/support client contract negotiations either remotely or part of in person meetings.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent prioritisation and management of workload to meet deadlines.
• Experienced and competent with the MS suite of applications inc. MS Teams.
• Excellent telephone manner.
• Full, driving licence and own transport.
• Experience of working in a sales driven environment
• Degree level qualification in a role related subject.

If you wish to speak to a member of the recruitment team, please contact 01224 246246.