Contract & Claims Manager

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This position reports to

Contract Manager HUB NEU

Your role and responsibilities

Challege yourself as a Contract Manager within the energy industry! At ABB Energy Industries, we are at the forefront of enabling safe, smart, and sustainable projects across various sectors. As a Contract Manager, you will play a crucial role in driving integrated solutions that automate, digitalize, and electrify industries, contributing to operational efficiency, risk reduction, and sustainability. We are now looking for a new Contract and Claims Manager to join our team in Energy Industries Vaasa or Helsinki. In this role, you will work both with Sales and Project Delivery within our Energy business unit in Finland. The work model for the role is: #LI-hybrid. For Sales, you will have an active role being responsible for preparing, leading, and executing negotiations, with existing and new customers, as well as negotiating extensions and renewals of framework-/service agreements. In close cooperation with Legal, bid managers and teams, you will be: • Leading contract management in daily activities with active involvement • Advising on contractual matters during the sales phase, assessing bids and commitments • Assisting in negotiations with customers, suppliers, and partners • Supporting changes and adjustments to contracts and frame agreements For Project and Service Deliveries the work is distinctly operational, working in close collaboration with the Project Managers and – teams, as well as Legal. The role holds the responsibility to manage and lead commercial activities throughout the execution of our projects and Service Deliveries, identifying the contract baseline (including terms and conditions, specifications, drawings, estimate, proposal, schedule, and other documents incorporated in the contract) and highlighting the areas of potential risk. You will be mainly accountable for: • Managing and leading commercial activities throughout project execution • Assisting project management in execution, claims handling, risk mitigation and requirement management • Leading negotiations with customers and sub-suppliers and other relevant stakeholders • Ensuring the timely execution of commercial aspects of ongoing contracts, including monitoring and assessment of changes and deviations, as well as defending and enforcing claims. Our team dynamics You will join an industry leader and a global team working with impactful international projects focused on Energy Transition. Together you will be contributing to innovation and sustainability while enjoying a flexible, positive work environment where every day brings new challenges, as well as opportunities for personal and career growth. You'll thrive here if what you are looking for is an atmosphere of collaboration, with close, informal relationships between colleagues at all levels.

Qualifications for the role

• Master of Laws degree or higher education in Business, Finance, Engineering, or Project Management.
• Relevant experience in strategic procurement, sales, or project management
• Strong English and Finnish, both written and spoken
• Swedish skills are considered an advantage
• Experience with project contract management, procurement, and logistics
• Understanding of and interest in contract models, financing, and legal aspects
• Team-oriented personality with an entrepreneurial spirit to operate independently
• Leadership skills and the ability to lead and develop high-performing teams
• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with a commercial mindset

More about us

The Energy Industries Division serves a wide range of industrial sectors, including hydrocarbons, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation and water. With its integrated solutions that automate, digitalize and electrify operations, the Division is committed to supporting traditional industries in their efforts to decarbonize. The Division also supports the development, integration and scaling up of new and renewable energy models. Our goal is to help customers adapt and succeed in the rapidly changing global energy transition. Harnessing data, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), we bring over 50 years of domain expertise delivering solutions designed to improve energy, process and production efficiency, as well as reduce risk, operational cost and capital cost, while minimizing waste for customers, from project start-up and throughout the entire plant lifecycle. We value people from different backgrounds. Could this be your story? Apply today or visit www.abb.com to read more about us and learn about the impact of our solutions across the globe. #My ABBStory Our culture and benefits reflect our values: courage, care, curiosity and collaboration. The most appreciated benefits according to our personnel are at the moment e.g. an annual performance bonus, employee share acquisition program, continuous learning opportunities, bicycle and other wellbeing and family benefits. We have a hybrid working model. Due to the nature of this position, ABB Oy will ask Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (Supo), to perform a standard level security clearance for the hired person. For more information, please contact Local Division Manager, Eero Koski +358 503 343 280 (Available for questions 20.9. at 9-10 and 27.9. at 9-10.) or Hub Northern Europe Contract Manager, Henrik Raa tel +47 95819551, henrik.raa@no.abb.com. Please apply for the position by September 30, 2024. (Documents submitted in English are appreciated). We look forward to receiving your application.