Baker Hughes
Contract Risk Manager (M/F/D)
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Contract and Risk Manager (M/F/D)
Are you a commercial professional looking for an opportunity to lead complex deals and drive strategic contract negotiations?
Join our Legal & Commercial Team!
Our Legal and Commercial team plays a critical role in enabling business growth by managing contractual frameworks, mitigating risks, and ensuring compliance across the deal lifecycle. We partner with cross-functional teams to deliver commercially sound and legally compliant solutions that support our customers and business objectives.
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Role Overview
The Contract Risk Manager is responsible for driving contract excellence and risk management for complex commercial agreements. This role involves negotiating, drafting, and managing contracts while ensuring compliance and optimal risk/reward balance.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing contracts from initiation through delivery, ensuring an effective handover
- Negotiating and redlining commercial agreements, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, optimized solutions for customers
- Identifying and mitigating contractual risks, validating the risk/reward balance
- Coordinating multi-stakeholder engagement throughout contract development, including presenting risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership
- Ensuring compliance with commercial risk assessment procedures
- Administering assigned proposals and contracts, including customer interactions, negotiations, and contract interpretation
- Collaborating with internal functions such as Manufacturing, Product Management, Sourcing, Engineering, Finance, and Legal
- Leading proposal, negotiation, and contract administration activities with minimal supervision
- Supporting managers and senior contract personnel on assigned contracts
- Liaising with functional organizations to ensure clear communication of contractual requirements
- Championing Lean practices, digital tools, and rigorous contracting standards to drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction
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Requirements
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Law, Finance, or Supply Chain
- Demonstrated expertise in redlining, drafting, and negotiating 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
Skills & Attributes
- Strong team player with the 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
- Capability to take ownership, execute, and shape results in a global-matrix organization
- Proven ability to establish strong relationships with customers and build trust
- Never-give-up attitude, is a problem solver and works independently
- Willingness to travel as business requires
Language & Software Knowledge
- Fluent in German and English (oral and written)
- Excellent all-round communication and storytelling skills
- Knowledge of CLM software (e.g., DocuSign, Icertis, Conga)
- Experience with 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
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Flexibility
Flexible working arrangements to support optimal performance.
Working with Baker Hughes
We empower employees to grow, innovate, and bring their authentic selves to work within an inclusive environment.
What we offer
For Italy
- Initial pay range: EUR 60,800 - 83,600
- Application of the Contratto Collettivo Energia e Petrolio policies (Art. 32 and Art. 34)
Core Benefits
- Flexible work-life balance policies
- Comprehensive medical and insurance coverage
- Life and disability benefits
- Financial and retirement programs
- Additional voluntary benefits
Internal Title
Sales Advisor - Risk Mitigation
About Baker Hughes
We are an energy technology company that delivers solutions to global energy and industrial customers across 120+ countries. With a century of innovation, we develop safer, cleaner, and more efficient energy technologies.
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Ready to make a real difference in a company that values innovation? Join our team and help drive progress in energy forward. Let’s come together to shape the future.
Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are based on merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law.
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