Senior Contracts Manager

Location

Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Category

Other

Job ID: R148812

Posted: Jun 10th 2025
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**Are you a Contracts Manager who drives customer satisfaction?**
**Are you looking for your next Senior role?**

**Join our team**

At Baker Hughes, we are transforming the future of energy. With operations in over 120 countries, we are developing and deploying industry-leading technologies and services to take energy forward. For more than a century, our inventions have revolutionized energy. Today, we are bringing our expertise to make oil and gas safer, cleaner, and more efficient.

**Partner with the best**

The Senior Contracts Manager will be responsible to manage SP&S deals from a contracting and commercial perspective throughout the deal lifecycle, ensuring compliance with contract commitments and commercial risk assessment during all phases.

In this role they negotiate contract terms and conditions, provide commercial and contractual leadership and direction throughout the entire deal life-cycle and develop practical and innovative ways to identify & mitigate contract risk.

As a **Senior Contracts Manager**, you will be responsible for:

- Developing & negotiating detailed contractual agreements with customers, and leading cross-functional teams in the contract negotiation, contributing to define the overall deal strategy.
- Supporting the bid teams in proposal development, risk management (including deal risk and governance adherence - deal reviews, Deal Machine, etc.), scope definition, pricing and incentives, customer communications and issue resolution.
- Managing all commercial and contractual related aspects of a project during the execution phase, including but not limited to commercial arrangements, Variation Orders, contract negotiation, amendments, adherence to contract requirements, etc.
- Ensuring compliance with the project specific contractual administration requirements (establish and maintain the project variation control system, managing the invoicing process, etc..).
- Providing advice, assistance and guidance to management, project managers, engineering, sourcing and other functions on project specific contractual matters.
- Ensuring commercial risks are identified and managed across the project scopes of work by controlling the overall project risk and opportunity review and reporting process.
- Managing negotiations in line with contract requirements, including supporting the formulation and negotiation of project contractual claims and counter claims
- Change Management.

**Fuel your passion**

To be successful in this role you will:

- Have a Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or college
- Be fluent in both English and Portuguese.
- Have demonstrable experience in Project and Contract Management with execution of large capital projects, within Oil & Gas or Subsea businesses.
- Have detailed knowledge of energy contracts, terms and conditions and negotiation techniques and contracts negotiation.
- Strong commercial leadership skills with proven capability of working in a matrix environment and of leading by influence.
- Understanding of key contractual and commercial risks and areas for opportunity and ability to lead project risk review process and assessments.
- Strong commercial acumen and business understanding
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Portuguese.
- Effective Team player.
- Be willing to travel.

**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 from a Rio de Janeiro based Baker Hughes office.

**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

**About Us**

With operations in over 120 countries, we provide better solutions for our customers and richer opportunities for our people. As a leading partner to the energy industry, we're committed to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and we're always looking for the right people to h