Bid and Contract Manager_French Speaker
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About the Role
Giesecke+Devrient is seeking a Bid and Contract Manager (French Speaker) to support sales activities in contractual matters, drive contracting processes, and manage risk exposure. The role requires a Bachelor's degree in Business Law, 5+ years of contract management experience, and fluency in English and French.
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Responsibilities
- Support and guide sales activities in all contractual matters
- Define contracting strategy in alignment with Bid Team
- Drive contracting process up to contract signature
- Perform contract Statement of Compliance (SoC) in tender/offer phase
- Manage risk exposure and mitigation list during contract negotiations
- Ensure contract handover to execution team
- Resolution of contractual matters and contract development during the whole contract lifecycle
- Provide regular reports and updates to reporting Manager on contract status and performance
- Actively support sales in developing new Business Models and preparing bids if required
- Lead tender management and create offerings
- Participate in negotiations with the customer to challenge disadvantageous contractual terms
- Align with global functions (Legal and Compliance) and subsidiaries in contractual matters
Requirements
- Minimum Bachelor degree in Business Law and International Trade
- Professional certification in Contract Management (e.g. CCCM, CPCM) preferred
- Must have minimum 5+ years of experience as contract manager
- Strong negotiation skills and knowledge of legal concepts
- Profound commercial understanding with focus on exceptional client service
- Good project management experience and skills
- Keen attention to detail and problem solving skills
- Strong communication skills and customer oriented behavior
- Good knowledge of and interest in products/services and sales activities
- Excellent team player with good soft skills
- Expertise in negotiation techniques, contract law, contract drafting, licensing
- Strong multi tasking skills and detail oriented
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Scope and Purpose
- To support and guide sales activities in all contractual matters
- Define contracting strategy in alignment with Bid Team (deal shaping), agree with Management if applicable
- Drive contracting process up to contract signature
- Perform contract Statement of Compliance (SoC) in tender/offer phase, contract drafting/preparation/updating and negotiating taking into consideration all internal guidelines
- Support the execution team during implementation phase in high level escalations of disputes or contract changes
- Manage risk exposure and mitigation list during contract negotiations and ensure contract handover to execution team
- Resolution of contractual matters and contract development during the whole contract lifecycle
- Provide regular reports and updates to reporting Manager on contract status and performance
Key Tasks
- Actively Support sales in developing new Business Models and preparing bids if required
- Lead tender management and create offerings
- Drive the Sales Contract aspects within the Bid team to ensure that what is offered/sold is defined precisely in the customer contracts including annexes according to defined contracting strategy
- Ensure that the G+D standard contract templates and guidelines are utilized to the extent possible to assure optimal contractual and commercial KPI’s
- Information exchange to allow suitable e2e contract alignment internally
- Participate in negotiations with the customer in order to challenge disadvantageous contractual terms.
- Align with global functions (Legal and Compliance) and subsidiaries in contractual matters
- Give input for contractual risk assessment and maintain mitigation list during negotiation phase with inputs from Bid team
- Ensure Sales contract handover to execution team
- Ensure that the reports are updated accurately at all times to provide updates
- Participate in any new Sales contract management tool enhancement (CLM)
- Execution Phase: Support Sales Contract changes, renegotiations and extensions with customer; Review Sales contractual Risk Management activities in alignment with execution team; Lead resolution of disputes, or support Legal and Compliance and Sales in dispute resolution; Drive Sales contract devel
Job Requirements
- Minimum Bachelor degree in Business Law and International Trade
- Professional certification in Contract Management (e.g. CCCM, CPCM) preferred
- Must have minimum 5+ years of experience as contract manager
- Strong and lengthy experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating Sales contracts
- Strong negotiation skills and knowledge of legal concepts
- Profound commercial understanding with focus on exceptional client service
- Good project management experience and skills (planning, reporting, processes)
- Keen attention to detail, with ability to spot errors, and problem solving skills
- Strong communication skills and customer oriented behavior
- Good knowledge of and interest in products/services and sales activities
- Excellent team player with good soft skills for use in cross functional and international teams
- Expertise in negotiation techniques, contract law, contract drafting, licensing
Contact
- HR Team Dubai
- careers dxb@gi de.com
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