Snr Commercial Contracts Manager

Job Description Summary

Building on over 130 years of experience and proven innovation, GE Vernova is leading a new era of energy - electrifying the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it..

Our mission is embedded in our name. We retain our treasured legacy, "GE," in our name as an enduring and hard-earned badge of quality and ingenuity. "Ver" / "verde" signal Earth's verdant and lush ecosystems. "Nova," from the Latin "novus," nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver.

With focus, GE Vernova is accelerating the path to more reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy, while helping our customers power economies and deliver the electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of

Today we are building the largest Wind Farm in World; Doggerbank on the North East Coast of UK; 300+ Wind Turbines , Contractually worth an estimated 3.5 billion pounds.

Your role will be to provide broad-based and thorough Commercial Contract Management to the Wind Offshore Project Team on the execution of this large scale Offshore Wind Farm construction project.

This role requires proximity to the UK and requires commuting to project and client offices in Teeside, London & Scotland on a regular basis.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage the Contractual and commercial relationship with GE's clients and serve as the singular point of contact for matters concerning clients contracts.
• Responsible to facilitate contract awareness means to the project team ( contract familiarization sessions, contracts' summaries, contracts extracts, live sessions, ad-hoc contract interpretation etc.,).
• Proposes and implement the contract management strategy on Claims, Variations, Amendments, and any critical contract-related matters that may arise within contracts with clients.
• Provides expert advise on solutions to contract-related problems with other parties ( such as subcontractors, suppliers, etc.,).
• Provides full claim management (from/to Client, Insurances)
• Provides full Amendments management
• Provides support on drafting, negotiation, and execution of key subcontracts and agreements.
• Actively support the Subcontracts Contract's Manager on main subcontracts to co-manage with Project Sourcing. Provide support during negotiations of claims, managing contractual changes and resolving disputes.
• Actively supports the Variations Contracts Manager
• Manages external experts and consultants while keeping accountability for the Project Contact and Commercial management.
• Contributes to monthly project reports, summaries, and presentations, as required by the PD/Project.
• Leads any due diligence involving liaising with legal, Planning, Finance, insurance, work package managers, etc.., and external consultants and experts on resolution of any contractual/legal/insurance issue.
• Provides any other contractual/commercial support agreed with the PD necessary for the project execution.
• Actively support Risk and Opps Management within the project.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering, commercial, or legal fields
• Experienced in managing large scale Construction Contracts

Required Experience/Characteristics

• Comprehensive Contracts and commercial experience in contracts/projects with critical interfaces, complex infrastructure (civil engineering, offshore, oil and gas, construction and/or renewable energy sector)
• Strong contractual and commercial acumen
• Ability to work effectively in a complex matrix organization. Effective transversally
• The right candidate can lead complex matters to completion
• Proactivity
• Dispute resolution experience. Preferred Arbitration experience
• Proven track record on negotiation and resolution of complex contractual issues
• Project Contract administration including change/variations orders, claim management, ability to develop and implement project claim strategy.
• Experience in developing, negotiating and managing constructions subcontracts.
• Manages formal communication with client, key partners and key subcontractors
• Risk Management experience on projects execution.

Its important to us that you can see a future here, and that starts with Career Progression, we are always looking to offer opportunities to move cross function if desired , so your career is always evolving.

We are an equal opportunities employer, committed to diverse employees, that means adhering to the principles of equal pay, and benefits to ensure our reward package is fair, linking pay to performance.

'Innovation is an attitude which can keep you evolving and remaining competitive .Especially in this rapidly changing world, there is no standard solutions. Ge Vernova are constantly challenging themselves to solve the problems and create opportunities in better ways'

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: No

#LI-Remote - This is a remote position