Description
Are you looking for a position where you can work with various business and project disciplines and be a part of the Contract Management team for a company with world leading technology? If so, we look forward to meeting you!

We are searching for a Contract Manager for our Grid Integration HVDC business. In this role, you will be ensuring contract and risk management activities are timely and accurately executed protecting Hitachi Energy's interests throughout the project’s lifecycle. With an analytical, hands-on, and autonomous approach, you contribute to the successful performance of Contract Management in your assigned project(s).

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead contract management activities for your assigned portfolio or project, ensuring compliance with procedures and providing guidance to cross-functional project teams.
• Develop contract management strategy considering policies, customer requirements, consortium partner interfaces, and overall execution strategy while identifying contract baselines and assessing areas of opportunity and risk.
• Oversee the timely and accurate execution of commercial aspects within contract portfolios/subcontracts, including payments, claims, variation orders, warranties, and provisions.
• Verifying that all parties fulfill their contractual obligations and assess the contract’s success, identifying lessons learned for future contracting.
• Document and communicate deficiencies, changes, and claims, while establishing and enforcing standard methodologies.
• Collaborate with HE Legal on negotiation strategies, dispute resolution, and settlement agreements drafting, highlighting potential opportunity and risk and ensuring the settlement terms protect our interests.
• Developing and implementing risk mitigation and opportunity plans in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with bonds and insurance provisions in contracts and coordinate with Finance and Insurance Risk Management for occurrences that may be covered by customer/third-party or HE-provided insurance.
• Support Insurance Risk Management in producing damage reports and ensure accurate handling of export control matters, considering restrictions, destination laws, countries, customers, and products.

Your background:

• Experience of contract management within the fields of power generation, substations, converter stations, grid integration, transmission or similar industrial plant.
• Experience in processing, managing and administrating varying sizes, types and complexity of contractual agreements during the execution and closing stages of projects lifecycle. Previous experience in the power transmission or grid projects is highly desirable.
• Hands on experience in projects' change management, claim management and contract-related commercial and legal issues and the possible effects in the relevant areas of responsibility regarding proposal stage and/or project execution.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Economics or Law.
• Good communication skills and ability to read, write, speak and negotiate in English. Additional languages are a plus.

What we offer

• Collective agreement
• Flexible working time
• Health care and wellness allowance
• Fantastic career possibilities within Hitachi Energy both within Sweden and globally
• Mentor to support you throughout onboard phase
• Various trainings and education supporting employee development
• Diversified company with over 70+ nationalities working in Sweden
• Supplementary compensation for parental leave
• Employee Benefit Portal with thousands of discounts and perks

Additional Information:
This role will be placed in either Ludvika or Västerås, Sweden, with frequent presence required at the office.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis so we encourage you to apply already today!

Union representatives – Sveriges Ingenjörer: Mikael Hjort, +46 107-38 29 86; Unionen: Fredrik Holmgren, +46 107-38 21 85; Ledarna: Frank Hollstedt, +46 10 7387048 . Questions can be directed to Talent Partner Nicole Bergman, nicole.bergman@hitachienergy.com.