Senior Contract Advisor

5 days ago

Aberdeen, Aberdeen City, United Kingdom Xodus Full time
Job Description

Xodus is seeking a highly skilled Senior Contract Advisor to join our team. As a key member of our commercial team, you will play a critical role in advising on contract and commercial risks and opportunities of key proposals and ongoing projects.

Key Responsibilities
  1. Evaluate and Advise on Contractual Risk: Evaluate and advise on contractual risk in contract drafts, including client contracts, subcontracts, non-disclosure agreements, and other agreement forms.
  2. Lead Negotiation of Contracts: Lead negotiation of contracts, contract amendments, and renewals, including annual rate reviews.
  3. Attend Client Negotiation Meetings: Attend client negotiation meetings and performance reviews.
  4. Draft Contractual Documents: Draft contractual documents, including amendments, novations, and assignments, NDAs, release/reliance letters, etc.
  5. Advise on Contractual Disputes: Advise and assist with resolution of contractual disputes that may arise.
  6. Provide Commercial Input: Provide commercial input to proposals, ensuring legal issues and commercial risks are fully understood and taken on board in preparation of tenders.
  7. Lead Continuous Improvement: Lead continuous improvement efforts to reduce/manage business risk and actively promote continuous improvement in commercial and contractual aspects of business operations.
  8. Provide Guidance and Training: Provide guidance, training, and awareness on contractual and commercial aspects to the wider business, ensuring early engagement in the contracting process.
  9. Mentor Contract Advisors: Mentor and develop contract advisors.
  10. Monitor Project Commercial Performance: Regularly monitor and report on project commercial performance.
  11. Ensure Compliance: Ensure all activities comply with governance policies and procedures and project controls are followed.
  12. Stay Up-to-Date with Regulations: Keep the business up to date with relevant changes to regulations/legal requirements.
Supplemental Responsibilities
  1. Develop Contract Templates: Develop and maintain contract templates, contract and commercial management processes, and guidelines.
  2. Support Due Diligence: Support due diligence on new opportunities, clients, suppliers, and prospective acquisitions.
  3. Commercial Review of Proposals: Commercial review of key proposals, especially of high value or complexity, and framework/global agreements.
  4. Assist with Set Up of New Corporate Entities: Assist with the set up of new corporate entities.
  5. Seek Board Approvals: Seek board approvals where required, in consultation with regional directors.
  6. Liaise with Stakeholders: Liaise with relevant stakeholders for negotiation of, and to obtain bonds and guarantees.
  7. Provide Advice on Insurance Coverage: Provide advice regarding Xodus' insurance coverage.
  8. Identify Opportunities for Expansion: Identify opportunities to expand Xodus offerings to clients.
  9. Stay Up-to-Date with Legal Developments: Keep up to date with relevant legal developments.
  10. Draft and Negotiate Subcontract Agreements: Draft, review, and negotiate subcontract agreements.
Requirements
  1. Degree in a Relevant Area: Degree educated in a relevant area, such as law or business management, is desirable.
  2. Relevant Experience: Relevant experience in both client and supplier-facing commercial contracts, preferably gained in an engineering/energy consultancy environment.
  3. Understanding of Contracts and Commercial/Legal Principles: Demonstrably solid understanding of contracts and commercial/legal principles.
  4. Knowledge and Experience of Commercial Contract Law and Relevant Regulations: Knowledge and experience of commercial contract law and relevant regulations.
Skills and Behaviours
  1. Team Player: A team player, comfortable with interfacing at all levels inside and outside the organisation.
  2. Strong Verbal and Written Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills are essential.
  3. Excellent Literacy and Numeracy Skills: Excellent literacy and numeracy skills (written and oral).
  4. Strong Negotiation Skills: Strong negotiation skills.
  5. High Computer Literacy in MS Office: High computer literacy in MS Office.
  6. Flexibility: Flexibility to adapt to varying business needs at short notice.
  7. Use of Own Initiative: Prepared to use own initiative whenever possible.
Benefits
  1. Market Competitive Salary: Market competitive salary.
  2. Flexible and Hybrid Working: Flexible and hybrid working.
  3. Private Medical Insurance: Private medical insurance.
  4. Cash Plan Benefit: Cash Plan Benefit.
  5. Pension: Pension.
  6. Life Insurance: Life Insurance.
  7. Income Protection Plan: Income Protection Plan.
  8. Employee Assistance Programme: Employee Assistance Programme.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Xodus is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive culture whereby everyone has a strong sense of belonging and can be themselves at work. We believe diversity drives innovation and we continually work to grow our network of people to give us the chance to be the best company that we can.

Our Commitment to Wellbeing

Xodus is committed to providing a healthy working environment and strives to continuously improve the quality of working life of our employees, their families, and others who work closely with us. We do this through the integration of wellbeing throughout all business activities, to create a working environment and culture that is compatible to the wellbeing of all our colleagues.

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