Sr. Contracts Specialist

About EARTH

Founded in 2009 EARTH is a leading facilitator of state-of-the-art Engineering, Technology Integration, Manufacturing, Maintenance and Project Management. Basically, EARTH is a trading company under the Trading Mission Support (T&MS Cluster of EDGE Group We are driven by a team of approx. 150 employees including former military personnel, who come with an in depth understanding of the regional and global defense landscape. Our in-house engineering capabilities and high-level collaboration with international OEMs help us provide turnkey solutions for customers’ technological and engineering challenges. We enhance platform and system performance, initiatives, and availability through our autonomous capabilities and smart solutions. This experience, and our expertise in other advanced technologies, allow us to boost armed forces readiness and potential.
 

Job Title: Senior Contract Specialist
 

Job Purpose

To manage the preparation contractual documents including and not limited to draft, negotiate and finalize technical and commercial inputs and terms & conditions that meet RFP/ RFI/RFQ requirements and consistent with Contract Management policy & procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct meetings with concerned EARTH departments and/or program/project teams to discuss the customer requirements and/or interpret RFQ/RFP/RFI to gather the technical requirements of the requested services and provide high level risks associated with pre- contract award administration.
• Analyze the final scope of services, identify contract administration risk and manage the implementation of risk mitigation measures specific to technical & commercial aspects.
• Finalize technical & commercial terms & conditions for customer and supplier contracts/agreements in coordination with Program/Project Managers and Finance Department.
• Finalize technical & commercial inputs for contracts and agreements for customers and suppliers including but not limited to NDA’s, Project Agreements, Sale & Purchase Agreements, Licensing Agreements, Supply Agreements, Services Agreements, etc. (as and when required).
• Participate in meetings with customers and suppliers to negotiate the technical & commercial contract with the concerned Program/Project Managers, Senior Legal Counsel and Finance Department.
• Coordinate with Program/Project Managers and Finance Department to negotiate and finalize the program/project specific insurance and ensure issuance of insurance certificate before the beginning of the program/project.
• Finalize responses to customer and supplier regarding contract deviations, modification technical & commercial terms & conditions etc.
• Ensure effective management of all relevant contract related correspondences and documentations as per the quality management and information security policy.

Experience and Education

• 8 years of Contract Management experience in public/private sector organization.
• Bachelor's degree in Contract Management/ Business Administration (MBA)/ Legislative Law (LLB) or equivalent.
• Master's degree in Contract Management/ Business Administration (MBA)/ Legislative Law (LLB) or equivalent.
• Experience in contract management public/private sector defense engineering organization.

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