Baker Hughes

Senior Contracts Manager

Reposted 23 Days Ago

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High Street, Cornwall, England, GBR

In-Office

Senior level

Energy

The Role

The Senior Contracts Manager oversees the contract lifecycle for SP&S deals, ensuring compliance, negotiating terms, and managing commercial risks. They lead cross-functional teams, support bids, manage invoicing, and provide guidance on contractual matters.

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Job Description

Senior Contracts Manager

The Senior Contracts Manager will be responsible to manage SP&S deals from a contracting and commercial perspective throughout the deal lifecycle, ensuring compliance with contract commitments and commercial risk assessment during all phases.

In this role they negotiate contract terms and conditions, provide commercial and contractual leadership and direction throughout the entire deal life-cycle and develop practical and innovative ways to identify & mitigate contract risk.

Partner the best

The Senior Contracts Manager will be responsible for:

Developing & negotiating detailed contractual agreements with customers, and leading cross-functional teams in the contract negotiation, contributing to define the overall deal strategy.
Supporting the bid teams in proposal development, risk management (including deal risk and governance adherence - deal reviews, etc.), scope definition, pricing and incentives, customer communications and issue resolution.
Managing all commercial and contractual related aspects of a project during the execution phase, including but not limited to commercial arrangements, Variation Orders, contract negotiation, amendments, adherence to contract requirements, etc.
Ensuring compliance with the project specific contractual administration requirements (establish and maintain the project variation control system, managing the invoicing process, etc..).
Providing advice, assistance and guidance to management, project managers, engineering, sourcing and other functions on project specific contractual matters.
Ensuring commercial risks are identified and managed across the project scopes of work by controlling the overall project risk and opportunity review and reporting process.
Managing negotiations in line with contract requirements, including supporting the formulation and negotiation of project contractual claims and counter claims.

Fuel your passion

Have a Bachelor’s Degree in Law/Business or related experience.
Have detailed knowledge of energy contracts, terms and conditions and negotiation techniques and contracts negotiation.
Strong commercial leadership skills with proven capability of working in a matrix environment and of leading by influence.
Understanding of key contractual and commercial risks and areas for opportunity and ability to lead project risk review process and assessments.
Negotiating Skills: To secure favorable outcomes, having the flexibility to understand and negotiate alternative contractual and commercial positions with customers (subject to approval).
Strong commercial acumen and business understanding
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Effective Team player.
Be willing to travel.
Have a permanent work permit in UK

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too.

We work in hybrid model : 4 days from office and 1 day from home (remote)

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

· Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

· Comprehensive private medical care options

· Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

· Tailored financial programs

· Additional elected or voluntary benefits

The Baker Hughes internal title for this role is: Sales Advisor - Proposals

Skills Required

Bachelor's Degree in Law or Business or related experience
Detailed knowledge of energy contracts and negotiation techniques
Strong commercial leadership skills in a matrix environment
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Permanent work permit in the UK

Baker Hughes Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Baker Hughes and has not been reviewed or approved by Baker Hughes.

Retirement Support — Feedback suggests retirement contributions combine automatic employer funding with a dollar‑for‑dollar match, with immediate vesting on the match. This structure can meaningfully increase savings for employees who participate consistently.
Equity Value & Accessibility — Feedback suggests a discounted employee stock purchase program with regular purchase periods and no brokerage fees provides accessible ownership upside. Program parameters are clearly laid out through the benefits hub and plan materials.
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Feedback suggests exempt staff have flexible, manager‑approved time off while non‑exempt employees accrue vacation and receive paid personal time. Company‑paid holidays and paid parental leave further broaden time‑away options.