Contract Manager
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About the Role
Thrifty Car Rental UAE seeks a seasoned Contracts Manager to lead the full lifecycle of contractual relationships, including tender management, compliance, supplier contract management, and budget oversight.
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Responsibilities
- Lead and manage end to end tender processes, including preparation, submission, evaluation, and award across all business lines
- Develop and maintain tender documentation, RFP/RFQ templates, and evaluation frameworks aligned with company procurement standards
- Review, negotiate, and manage a broad range of commercial contracts, working alongside the legal team for complex or high risk agreements
- Identify and flag contractual risks, liabilities, and obligations; escalate critical issues to senior leadership or legal team as required
- Maintain a comprehensive contracts repository, ensuring all agreements are properly executed, stored, and tracked for renewal or expiry
- Manage the full lifecycle of supplier and vendor contracts, covering both service agreements and product supply contracts
- Lead commercial negotiations with suppliers, vendors, and service providers to secure favorable terms, pricing, SLAs, and performance guarantees
- Monitor contract spend across all active agreements, ensuring expenditure remains within approved budgets and flagging variances
- Oversee contracts across multiple business entities and brands, ensuring consistency in standards while accommodating brand specific commercial requirements
- Produce regular management reporting on contract status, upcoming renewals, risks, and commercial performance
Requirements
- Minimum 5–8 years of experience in contracts management, commercial management, procurement, or a finance/accounting role with significant contracts exposure
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, or a related field
- Exceptional commercial negotiation and influencing skills
- Highly organized and detail oriented, with ability to manage multiple concurrent contracts across different categories, brands, and geographies
- Analytical mindset with strong ability to assess financial, operational, and commercial risk within contract terms
- Proven track record managing multi brand or multi entity contract portfolios across service and product supply categories, ideally within automotive, spare parts, heavy equipment, or related sectors
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Role Overview
- We are seeking a seasoned and commercially sharp Contracts Manager to lead the full lifecycle of contractual relationships across the organization — protecting the company's interests, ensuring compliance, and driving value across supplier, vendor, and business partner agreements.
- The ideal candidate has proven experience managing multi brand contract portfolios within the automotive, spare parts, or related sectors.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage end to end tender processes, including preparation, submission, evaluation, and award across all business lines.
- Develop and maintain tender documentation, RFP/RFQ templates, and evaluation frameworks aligned with company procurement standards.
- Coordinate cross functional input from technical, finance, and operations teams to produce competitive and compliant tender submissions.
- Monitor tender pipelines, track deadlines, and ensure timely responses to government and private sector tenders.
- Analyze tender outcomes and conduct post bid reviews to improve future submissions and competitive positioning.
- Review, negotiate, and manage a broad range of commercial contracts, working alongside the legal team for complex or high risk agreements.
- Identify and flag contractual risks, liabilities, and obligations; escalate critical issues to senior leadership or the legal team as required.
- Maintain a comprehensive contracts repository, ensuring all agreements are properly executed, stored, and tracked for renewal or expiry.
- Ensure all contracts comply with applicable local laws, regulations, and corporate governance frameworks, with support from the legal team where needed.
- Support dispute resolution processes by coordinating with the legal team and providing relevant contract documentation and commercial context.
- Manage the full lifecycle of supplier and vendor contracts, covering both service agreements and product supply contracts.
- Lead commercial negotiations with suppliers, vendors, and service providers to secure favorable terms, pricing, SLAs, and performance guarantees.
Skills and Qualifications
- Minimum 5–8 years of experience in contracts management, commercial management, procurement, or a finance/accounting role with significant contracts exposure.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain Management, or a related field; a postgraduate qualification in Contract or Commercial Management is an advantage.
- Exceptional commercial negotiation and influencing skills, with the confidence to engage senior stakeholders across procurement, finance, operations, and legal functions.
- Highly organized and detail oriented, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent contracts across different categories, brands, and geographies.
- Analytical mindset with strong ability to assess financial, operational, and commercial risk within contract terms.
- Proven track record managing multi brand or multi entity contract portfolios across service and product supply categories, ideally within the automotive, spare parts, heavy equipment, or related sectors.
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