Contract Manager Hitachi Energy

About the job

To support our team within the Business Transformers, we are looking for 3 Contract Managers to provide professional advice on a broad range of legal/contractual topics related to the business unit in different European locations.

How You’ll Make An Impact

Work in close cooperation and coordination with HUB Transformers Contract Management to have a common approach and implementation of BU’s strategy on Contract Management and implement guidelines, instructions, common tools, processes, and templates as defined by BU Transformers function. Provides contractual domain expertise in implementation, execution and administration.

• Support the sales team during risk review process: draft, negotiate and finalize agreements during the sales phases with support of local legal, if required.
• Identify the contract baseline (including terms and conditions, specifications, drawings, estimate, proposal, schedule and other documents incorporated in the contract) and highlights areas of potential risk.
• Enforce and defend Hitachi Energy’s contractual interests against customers and suppliers during the whole of a project life cycle, including monitoring and assessment of changes and deviations, as well as defending and enforcing claims.
• Ensure timely and accurate execution of commercial aspects in portfolio of contracts (i.e. payments, claims, variation orders, warranties, provisions, guarantees, etc.).
• Establish and enforces standard change methodologies in portfolio of contracts to identify changes and quantify the additional time and compensation due to Hitachi Energy per the contract, defines approval requirements and communicates changes to the customer.
• Support Project Management during execution phase to develop, implement risk mitigation and opportunity plan.

Your Background

Law Degree or a related field Master qualification.

5 years of experience in contract management from tendering to execution and/or a related field.

Strong understanding of contract law and regulations, particularly those relevant to the region.

Excellent communication and ability to work under pressure.

Fluent in English. Any additional language is a plus.

Demonstrated ability to lead and manage projects and cross-functional teams.

Willingness to travel as per business needs.

More About Us

We offer you the opportunity to work with fantastic people and develop yourself on projects that present great technical challenges and have a real impact. Wide range of benefits: health insurance, pension fund, welfare, flexible working type, flexible working hours.

Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader in electrification, powering a sustainable energy future through innovative power grid technologies with digital at the core. Over three billion people depend on our technologies to power their daily lives.

With over a century in pioneering mission‑critical technologies like high‑voltage, transformers, automation, and power electronics, we are addressing the most urgent energy challenge of our time – balancing soaring electricity demand, while decarbonizing the power system.

Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ over 50,000 people in 60 countries and generate revenues of around $16 billion USD. We welcome you to apply today.