Risk Manager

Do you enjoy leading and motivating others to deliver successful solutions for business and customers? Would you like the opportunity to be responsible for business growth? Join our Waygate Technologies team! Our Waygate Technologies team provides industry-leading products and services that optimize the inspection process. We help a diverse range of customers across the value chain to reduce operating costs and improve productivity.

Be part of a team that makes a difference to our business:
Drive contract excellence and risk management for complex commercial agreements. Negotiate, draft, and manage contracts, ensuring compliance and optimal risk/reward balance. As a Contract and Risk Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Managing contracts from initiation through delivery, ensuring effective handover.
• Negotiating and redlining commercial agreements, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, optimized solutions for customers.
• Identifying and mitigating contractual risks, validating the risk/reward balance.
• Coordinating multi-stakeholder engagement throughout contract development including presenting risk mitigation strategies to senior leadership.
• Ensuring compliance with commercial risk assessment procedures.
• Administering assigned proposals and contracts, including customer interactions, negotiations, and contract interpretation.
• Collaborating with internal functions such as Manufacturing, Product Management, Sourcing, Engineering, Finance, and Legal.
• Leading proposal, negotiation, and contract administration activities with minimal supervision.
• Supporting managers and senior contract personnel on assigned contracts.
• Liaising with functional organizations to ensure clear communication of contractual requirements.
• Championing lean practices, digital tools, and rigorous contracting standards to drive continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

• Bachelor’s degree (Business, Law, Finance, or Supply Chain)
• Demonstrated expertise in redlining, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements
• Have minimum 5+ years’ experience managing commercial contracts in a corporate or law firm environment.
• Have experience in High-Tech industries such as NDT, Aerospace, Electronics, Automotive, Energy, Renewables
• Have proven understanding of US jurisdictional law and government contracts
• Be a strong team player, interacting with all supporting functions and the ability to work in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams.
• Have experience in complex tendering, contract management and negotiations
• Demonstrate the ability to manage and execute multiple commercial opportunities to successful completion
• Display the ability to take ownership, execute and shape results in a global-matrix organization
• Have proven capability to establish good relationship with customers and build trust.
• Have a never-give-up attitude, problem solver, works independently.
• Be willing to travel as business requires
• Be fluent in English (oral and written) and have excellent all-round communication and storytelling skills.

• Opportunity Management & Risk Tools e.g. Deal Machine
• Have proficiency Office 365 Suite
• Have proficiency with CLM software (Docu Sign, Icertis, Conga)

• Have experience with large-scale high tech global companies, NDT, customer contracts, long term agreements and NDAs

• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit in everything in and work when you are the most productive

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.

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:

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