Senior Commercial Contracts Manager

The Company:

Hexagon is a global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software, and autonomous technologies. We are putting data to work to boost efficiency, productivity, quality, and safety across industrial, manufacturing, infrastructure, public sector, and mobility applications.

Our technologies are shaping the production and people-related ecosystems to become increasingly connected and autonomous — ensuring a scalable, sustainable future.

Hexagon’s Mining division solves surface and underground mine challenges with proven technologies for planning, operations, and safety.

Hexagon (Nasdaq Stockholm: HEXA B) has approximately 24,000 employees in 50 countries and net sales of approximately 5.5bn USD. Learn more at hexagon.com and follow us @HexagonAB.

Purpose of Position:

Manages the commercial relationship of a contract, by overseeing the entire contract lifecycle from negotiation to execution and compliance. This will involve collaboration with internal (finance, legal) and external teams (customers).

Responsible for ensuring robust management and performance of high value contracts around the legal, commercial and financial aspect and ensure they are aligned and compliant with internal and external regulatory requirements.

Delivering commercial expertise to support customers and stakeholders, ensuring alignment with contract requirements and expectations. Manage our high value commercial contract on day-to-day basis, with potential to work on other contracts autonomously.

Liaise with customers to make sure financial management of the contract payments, milestone completion and signoffs are processed on time and within the guidelines.

Relationship management and account management around the contract ensuring continued engagement with the customer. Negotiation of amendment, variations and point of contact for all escalations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manages commercial relationships, ensures contract terms are met and mitigates risks
• Contract administrative controls and monitoring requirements
• Internal and external assurance and governance requirements in support of extensions, variations and novation of contracts
• Regulatory requirements associated with managing contracts, to ensure compliance with legislation
• Contractual issues, negotiations and escalations
• Audits of supplier obligations to ensure they’re being carried out in accordance with contractual requirements
• Invoice and billing of high-profile contracts
• Maintain and drive compliance with the relevant project level governance
• Monitor performance of work under contract at all levels in line with contracted Key Performance Indicators

Knowledge and Experience - Required:

• Previous contract commercial management experience related to the types of activities identified in the ‘Main Responsibilities’ section, in either public or private sector environments
• Previous experience of successfully dealing with high value, technical, challenging contracts with evidence of being able to prioritise competing demands without losing focus on delivery
• Solution outcomes focused and customer driven
• Strong commercial acumen and contract negotiation skills
• Ability to understand legal frameworks of supplier contracts
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Evidence of building a strong rapport and relationships at all levels with customers and stakeholders
• Experience of collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver results for customers
• Can work autonomously with minimal supervision and drive process and deliverables against contractual requirements

Finance Team Collaboration:

• Financial Analysis: Work with finance experts to analyze the financial implications of contracts, ensuring alignment with budget and financial goals.
• Cost Management: Collaborate on budgeting and cost management to ensure financial performance meets organizational standards.
• Performance Monitoring: Partner with finance to monitor and report on the financial performance of contracts, addressing any discrepancies promptly.
  

Legal Team Collaboration:

• Contract Drafting and Review: Collaborate with legal experts to draft, review, and finalize contract clauses, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
• Legal Compliance: Ensure all contracts adhere to legal requirements, seeking legal advice as necessary to mitigate legal risks.
• Dispute Resolution: Work with legal to handle any disputes or issues that arise during the contract lifecycle, ensuring a fair and timely resolution.

Travel:

Minimal Travel required for this position

Hexagon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against any job applicant based on protected characteristics.