Description
General information:
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Mission statement:
Lead the provision of contract management services to the Local Business Unit/Product Group or Country, ensuring all contract management activities are executed in accordance with Group/Division/Business Unit directives and instructions including Company procedures and the Contract Management Framework.
Your responsibilities:
You will ensure the portfolio of contracts in the business follows contract and claim management methodologies in accordance with internal standard procedures, review and comments on commercial and technical tender terms and conditions, develop contract strategy based on Hitachi Energy’s policies, customer requirements, and the overall execution strategy taking into account risk, pricing scope, and schedule.
You will identify the contract baseline (including terms and conditions, specifications, drawings, estimate, proposal, schedule and other documents in corporate in the contract) and highlights areas of potential risk, ensure timely and accurate execution of commercial aspects in portfolio of contracts (i.e. payments, claims, variation orders, warranties, provisions, guarantees, etc.).
You will verify that both parties to the contract have fulfilled the contractual obligations and there are no responsibilities outstanding, assess success of the contract and determine there are any lessons learned for future contracting, documents and communicate to all appropriate parties any deficiencies found as part of the closeout process.
You will establish and enforce standard change methodologies in portfolio of contracts to identify changes and quantify the additional time and compensation as per the contract, defines approval requirements and communicates changes to the customer.
You will enforce and defend contractual interests against customer and suppliers during the whole of a project lifecycle, monitor, assessment of change and deviations, as well as defend and enforce claims, in concert with Legal, develop the negotiation strategy and supports negotiations.
You will support Legal handling formal dispute resolution, litigation, and arbitration. You will notify and liaises with Legal to report major claims and keep Legal updated of any critical development during project execution.
You will support drafting of Purchase Orders, Contracts and Subcontracts and ensure that relevant (sub)contracts contain appropriate contract terms to protect interest, including flow-down of main contract terms.
You will be analyzing prime contract terms to highlight areas of potential opportunity and risk, such as ambiguities, omission and conflicts, as work proceed. You will seek advice from Legal to draft, negotiate and finalize agreements during the Sales and Project Execution phases.
You will develop and implement risk mitigation and opportunity plan in concert with Project Manager and/or Sales Manager or FES Manager.
You will ensure contract insurance provisions are adhered to and coordinate with Insurance Risk Management regarding occurrences that may be covered by customer or provided insurance.
You will export controls seek advice from Legal (Export Control) to ensure accurate handling of all export control matters and ensure close review of all contracts and projects with regard to restrictions on exports, considering countries, customers or products involved and the respective laws and regulations.
People leadership and development 172 Local Business Unit Manager (or) Local Product Group Manager (or)Local Project Operations Manager (or) Global Contract Director (depending on size of the unit) (Reporting lines may vary from Division to Division) you will ensure (with HR Manager support) that the area of responsibility will be organized, staffed, skilled and directed. You will guide, motivate and develop direct/indirect subordinates within HR policies.
Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
Your background:
A bachelor’s degree in similar field.
More than 10 years of experience in relevant field.
Proficiency in Contract management, change management, contract risk management.
A high level of self-motivation, curiosity and desire to learn about new technologies.
A collaborative, solutions-oriented approach and strong communication skills.
