Do you enjoy leading and motivating others to deliver successful solutions for business and customers?
Would you like the opportunity to be responsible for business growth?

Join our Waygate Technologies team!
Our Waygate Technologies team provides industry-leading products and services that optimize the inspection process. We help a diverse range of customers across the value chain to reduce operating costs and improve productivity.

Be part of a team that makes a difference to our business:
Drive contract excellence and risk management for complex commercial agreements. Negotiate, draft, and manage contracts, ensuring compliance and optimal risk/reward balance.

As a Contract and Risk Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Managing contracts from initiation through delivery, ensuring effective handover.

• Negotiating and redlining commercial agreements, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, optimized solutions for customers

• Identifying and mitigating contractual risks, validating the risk/reward balance.

• Coordinating multi-stakeholder engagement throughout contract development including presenting risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership.

• Ensuring compliance with commercial risk assessment procedures.

• Administering assigned proposals and contracts, including customer interactions, negotiations, and contract interpretation.

• Collaborating with internal functions such as Manufacturing, Product Management, Sourcing, Engineering, Finance, and Legal.

• Leading proposal, negotiation, and contract administration activities with minimal supervision

• Supporting managers and senior contract personnel on assigned contracts

• Liaising with functional organizations to ensure clear communication of contractual requirements.

• Championing lLean practices, digital tools, and rigorous contracting standards to drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

Fuel your passion:

• Bachelor’s degree (Business, Law, Finance, or Supply Chain)

• Demonstrated expertise in redlining, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements

• Have minimum 5+ years’ experience managing commercial contracts in a corporate or law firm environment.

• Have experience in High-Tech industries such as NDT, Aerospace, Electronics, Automotive, Energy, Renewables

• Have proven understanding of US jurisdictional law and government contracts

• Be a strong team player, interacting with all supporting functions and the ability to work in cross- functional and cross-cultural teams.

• Have experience in complex tendering, contract management and negotiations

• Demonstrate the ability to manage and execute multiple commercial opportunities to successful completion

• Display the ability to take ownership, execute and shape results in a global-matrix organization

• Have proven capability to establish good relationship with customers and build trust.

• Have a never-give-up attitude, problem solver, works independently.

• Be willing to travel as business requires

• Be fluent in English (oral and written) and have excellent all-round communication and storytelling skills.

Technical Skills:

• Opportunity Management & Risk Tools e.g. Deal Machine

• Have proficiency Office 365 Suite

• Have proficiency with CLM software (DocuSign, Icertis, Conga)

Preferred:

• Have experience with large-scale high tech global companies, NDT, customer contracts, long term agreements and NDAs

Work in a way that works for you
We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit in everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working with us
Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Working for you
Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

• Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

• Comprehensive private medical care options

• Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

• Tailored financial programs

• Additional elected or voluntary benefits

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found here, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.