Legal Contract Management Senior Professional

The opportunity

Hitachi Energy Transformer Business Unit in Greater China operates across 55 cities, employs over 1,900 staff, and manages 5 transformer manufacturing plants. More than 90% of its sales come from locally manufactured products. We offer a comprehensive portfolio of Transformers Products, Solutions and Services. Transformers are essential in all electricity-related fields and applications, including power generation, transmission and distribution, oil, chemical and gas, industrial manufacturing, semiconductor and data centers, as well as building and transportation sectors.

Nearly half of our white-collar workforce comprises employees in engineering and scientific fields. Internally, we have targeted talent development programs for employees at different stages of their career development to build skills and competencies, foster training, support people to own career development, scale up organization for growth and execution.

How you'll make an impact

1. You will work in close cooperation and coordination with HUB CM to have a common approach and implementation of BU's strategy on Contract Management and implement guidelines, instructions, common tools, processes, and templates as defined by BU function. Provides contractual domain expertise in implementation, execution and administration.

2. You will continuously evaluate and improve contract management processes, tools, and policies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.

3. You will support the sales team during risk review process; seeks advice from legal to draft, negotiate and finalize agreements during the sales phases.

4. You will identify the contract baseline (including terms and conditions, specifications, drawings, estimate, proposal, schedule and other documents incorporated in the contract) and highlights areas of potential risk. Ensures timely and accurate execution of commercial aspects in portfolio of contracts (i.e. payments, claims, variation orders, warranties, provisions, guarantees, etc.).

5. You will establish and enforces standard change methodologies in portfolio of contracts to identify changes and quantify the additional time and compensation due to HE per the contract, defines approval requirements and communicates changes to the customer. Enforces and defends HE's contractual interests against customer and suppliers during the whole of a project life cycle, including monitoring and assessment of changes and deviations, as well as defending and enforcing claims.

6. You will support Project Management during execution phase to develop, implement risk mitigation and opportunity plan.

7. This position typically operates in an office setting but may require travel to meet with clients or attend negotiations and the role may involve long periods of sitting and working at another location.