Daily Sustainability Job Post

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Position Overview:

We are currently recruiting for a Contract Manager within our Sustainability Business Division based in our Boulder office in Colorado (or potentially our Louisville office in Kentucky). The successful candidate will be leading the contracting efforts for our US cleantech business that is vital to the future success of the organization and will play a key role in ensuring the ongoing growth and success of our SBD division. You will play a key part in our Global contracting function and leadership team.

The Contract Manager (Sustainability) will be expected to liaise closely with senior management within our Sales, Client Management and Operations divisions to continue develop and refine our contracting solutions to meet the appropriate legal standards required by a leading global energy organisation.

What do you get to do in this position?

• Provide market leading contractual support to facilitate business growth, manage risk exposure and allow smooth delivery of SBD services.
• Work with key stakeholders to refine, innovate and develop our contracting solutions, process and control environment to support an evolving and growing division.
• Work extremely closely with the Sales and Client Management teams to deliver an exceptional level of service to them and to our Clients.
• Be able to review, amend and commercially risk assess contractual documentation to meet our commercial, finance and legal requirements.
• Present commercial risk assessments and mitigations to senior business leaders to facilitate decision making.
• Discuss, explain and champion contractual requirements with internal and external stakeholders.
• Act as lead point of contact for contractual escalations and queries.
• Training of colleagues, client facing leads and new recruits in our contracting and commercial rules and processes.
• Digital innovator and owner of performance metrics of effectiveness of contractual support.
• Contribute to a continuous learning and improvement environment, help initiate and deliver change.

Qualifications

We know skills and competencies show up in many different ways and can be based on your life experience. If you do not necessarily meet all the requirements that are listed, we still encourage you to apply for the position.

This job might be for you if:

• Bachelors degree and experienced operator (2 to 5 years) in sales contract preparation, review and negotiation.
• A dynamic individual & values role model that inspires & influences our stakeholders in equal measure.
• Effective communicator capable of interaction with Senior Management, Executive Sponsors and Client Legal and Purchasers.
• Excellent standards of reliability and accountability and have an entrepreneurial business ownership mindset.
• “Can-do” and positive attitude to challenges and opportunities, autonomous approach to managing workloads with minimal oversight.
• Ability to prioritise and execute tasks efficiently under pressure
• Experience in working in a multinational and multicultural environment is an advantage
• Experience or knowledge of the energy industry is an advantage but not necessary