Contract Manager

at  BEW Berliner Energie und Wrme AG

Company Description
Heat and energy are our contribution to quality of life - each and every day. In Berlin, we supply around 1.4 million residential units with reliable and climate-friendly district heating. With the expertise of our 2,000 employees, we cover the entire district heating value chain - from Generation to Network Construction and Operation to Sales. At BEW Berliner Energie und Wärme AG, we work every day in our city to phase out coal by 2030 and to achieve climate-neutral generation from 2040 onwards. With this, we are significantly supporting the state of Berlin in achieving its own climate targets. On our way to 2030, we want to realize a significant higher renewable energy and waste heat share, which require a comprehensive transformation of our generation sites and assets. For these exciting and challenging tasks, we need people who want to shape the future of district heating and the future of Berlin - people like you.
Job Description
Become part of the heat transition!
We are looking for you to join BEW – Berliner Energie & Wärme AG as a
Contract Manager for heating projects
in Berlin on a permanent basis as soon as possible.

YOUR ROLE

As a Contract Manager, your main task will be to independently design, manage and efficiently implement our contracts for our construction projects. You will work closely with our legal and procurement departments to prepare and review contract documents and prepare negotiation strategies and provide expert support to our project managers in commercial negotiations. As a ‘Tender Manager’, you will manage and coordinate the timely preparation of all tender documents in a multidisciplinary project team and review them with regard to potential risks. You work in a matrix organization and your reporting is therefore geared towards the requirements of different stakeholder groups.

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• You are responsible for updating contracts through contract amendments and work variations.
• You manage contractual interfaces between client and contractor as well as between different contractors.
• You identify potential claims of the contracting parties and develop measures to minimize risk.
• You assess, defend against and negotiate claims.
• You monitor contract management and contract processes, contract deadlines, changes to legislation or standards and compliance with the scope of works under the contracts.
• You will be responsible for the provision of documents and evidence in the event of a contractual dispute (court-proof documentation).
• You are responsible for the creation and structured filing of defect notifications prior to taking over from the contractor.
• You provide contract training for the project teams.
• You promote the continuous improvement process in contract management, e.g. through “lessons learnt” from your own and other projects.
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