Contract Manager/Gestionnaire des contrats

Contract Manager/Gestionnaire des contrats

About the Role

Location Canada Quebec Montreal Company Siemens Energy Canada Limited Organization Grid Technologies Business Unit Legal & Compliance Full / Part time Full-time Experience Level Experienced Professional

A Snapshot of Your Day

Be part of a team of Contract Managers and Legal Counsels, crafting the energy landscape of the future. In this role, you will support Siemens Energy's Grid Technologies and its project business by handling complex contractual matters. This includes analyzing contracts, identifying risks, negotiating agreements, and advising project and site management in large-scale projects.

You will act as a senior advisor to project leadership proactively ensuring consistent adherence to Siemens Energy’s contract and claims strategies throughout project execution, including proactively identifying, developing, and advancing contractual entitlements and claims, and resolution options, in accordance with established claims management processes. You will be exercising independent judgment on risk, claims strategy, and dispute positioning, and serving as a key escalation point and advisor for complex contractual issues.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Providing advice and support for customer contracts, consortium agreements, and sub-contracts to strictly protect Siemens Energy’s rights and entitlements.
• Supporting in contractual and commercial matters, such as the change order processes and reviewing and drafting of relevant correspondence.
• Identifying all relevant technical, commercial, and contractual aspects to support the set-up of project-specific claim strategies.
• Contributing to pursuing and defending incoming and outgoing claims by collecting and advising on relevant project records, documentation, and all pertinent facts.
• Collaborating with legal teams by providing support in substantiating relevant facts for claiming quantum, extension of time, and establishing factual defenses in arbitration proceedings.
• Performing quantum or delay analyses to establish causation for relevant events impacting the project schedule and/or the scope of work.

What You Bring

• 10-15 years of experience managing complex contracts, including claim management, with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong negotiation skills, logical problem-solving, and the capacity to support a matrixed negotiating team.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing requirements, schedules, and priorities; self-driven with pragmatic approach.
• Solid knowledge of commercial contracts, common law, Quebec civil law, and familiarity with public/quasi-public entities and civil contractors.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally; experience in industrial or energy markets preferred but not required.
• This position is in a French-speaking environment but requires fluency in English to comprehend documentation and technical terms from international sources, and to communicate with customers, suppliers, or international colleagues.