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Contracts Engineer
Sword
Leading Provider of Business Technology Solutions
Sword is a leading provider of business technology solutions within the Energy, Public, and Finance Sectors, dedicated to driving transformational change for our clients. We leverage proven technology, specialist teams, and extensive domain expertise to create robust technical foundations across platforms, data, and business applications. Our mission is fueled by a passion for technology as a means to solve complex business problems and achieve our clients’ objectives.
About the Role
Contracts Engineer (Newly Created Position)
This is an exciting opportunity to join Sword in a newly created Contracts Engineer role, where you’ll play a key role in shaping how we manage customer and supplier contracts. Your responsibilities will include ensuring commercial risks are effectively managed while driving successful business outcomes.
You’ll work across a diverse range of customer and supplier agreements, collaborating with Sales, Operations, Procurement, Finance, Compliance, and Legal teams to support complex commercial arrangements and managed service contracts. No two days will be the same, offering opportunities to:
- Influence contract strategy
- Improve commercial governance
- Establish best practices across the business
If you enjoy solving commercial challenges, building strong stakeholder relationships, and making a tangible impact within a growing organisation, this role allows you to shape a new capability while working on high-profile contracts that support Sword’s long-term success.
Key Responsibilities
- Review, draft, and negotiate customer and supplier contracts, including:
- Terms & conditions
- Framework agreements
- Commercial documentation
- Ensure customer and supplier contractual obligations are aligned, managing commercial risk (especially when Sword acts as the prime contractor or managing agent)
- Identify contractual, commercial, and operational risks, developing mitigation strategies with stakeholders
- Provide contractual guidance to Sales, Operations, Procurement, and Project teams throughout the contract lifecycle
- Coordinate contract reviews with internal stakeholders, including Legal, Compliance, Finance, Procurement, and Information Security
- Manage contract approvals in line with company governance and delegated authority
- Develop and maintain standard contract templates, commercial clauses, and documentation
- Maintain an accurate contract repository, monitoring renewals, notice periods, and key obligations
- Support supplier onboarding by reviewing contractual requirements, liabilities, and service commitments
- Assist in resolving contractual queries, variations, and disputes
- Promote best practice in commercial contract management and contribute to continuous improvement
- Build strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to drive business growth
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Requirements & Experience
- Proven experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating:
- Commercial contracts
- Terms & conditions
- Contractual documentation
- Deep understanding of:
- Commercial contract principles
- Contractual risk and liability management
- Experience working with:
- Customer and supplier contracts (framework agreements, Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Statements of Work (SOWs), Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs))
- Ability to:
- Identify, assess, and mitigate contractual and commercial risks
- Manage contracts across the full lifecycle (negotiation to renewal/termination)
- Knowledge of:
- Commercial governance
- Contract approval processes
- Contractual compliance requirements
- Strong ability to:
- Interpret contractual language
- Communicate commercial implications to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong negotiation skills, balancing commercial objectives and risk
- Experience collaborating with:
- Sales, Procurement, Finance, Operations, Compliance, and Legal teams
- Excellent written communication skills, with high attention to detail
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Experience using contract management or document management systems is desirable
- Bonus: Experience managing multi-party contractual arrangements (aligning obligations across customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders)
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Benefits
At Sword, we invest in our employees’ growth, well-being, and flexibility, offering a comprehensive benefits package that includes:
Personalised Career Development
- Customised development plans aligned with your goals
- A culture of growth, with learning and development opportunities
Flexible Working
- Supportive policies to help you balance work and life
- Open discussion to accommodate individual preferences
Competitive Salary + Full Benefits
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Enhanced family-friendly benefits
- Pension scheme
- Access to private health, well-being, and insurance schemes
Our Culture & Commitment
We foster a diverse and inclusive workplace, where everyone is valued. As an equal opportunities employer, we consider applications based on skills, potential, and experiences—not just box-ticking.
We embrace diversity in all forms, including:
- Age, disability, gender identity/assignment
- Marital/civil partner status, pregnancy/maternity
- Race, colour, nationality, ethnic/or national origin
- Religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation
If you don’t meet every requirement but believe you have transferable skills, we encourage you to apply!
Accessibility Support If you require assistance to make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply—we’re happy to make reasonable adjustments.
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