Contracts Specialist (HR21072)

Job description

Job Description as Contracts Specialist with Stork:

Develop a Contract Legal and Commercial Framework and develop and control contracts accordingly and in consultation with Customer/ Subcontractor or partner, ensure identification and mitigation of risks and coordinate contracts with internal and external parties, in line with rules and regulations and commercial objectives, in order to optimally support the internal departments in negotiations and settlements with (sub) contractors and partners.

Tasks and Responsibilities as Contracts Specialist:

Negotiate with customer

• Negotiate terms & conditions with customer
• Negotiate contractual scope and commercial terms with customer

Contracts

• Set-up, monitor, evaluate and advise on the contract legal and commercial content, and complement agreements if necessary
• Analyse needs and objectives of clients, partners and internal departments
• Analyse proposed text of customer against above analyses
• Translate requirements in text proposals to be incorporated into the contracts
• Verify compliance with corporate Legal guidelines

Legal risks

• Analyse and control possible risks in contracts
• Propose acceptable solutions to adjust contracts based on the identified risks
• Prevent unlimited risks in contracts and veto their inclusion
• Ensure contractual risks are b-2-b in the chain (subcontracts)

Control

• Ensure checking of contracts for accuracy of data
• Ensure identification, and where relevant, implementation of corrections
• Ensure no unlimited risks are included in the contract

Internal coordination

• Inform, advise and coordinate with internal departments with respect to changes and (im)possibilities in contracts and agreements
• Interface with operations (Technical), Commercial people, legal and insurance in order to balance the contractual issues.

Job requirements

At Stork, we attach great value to the key competences of our employees. We expect you always give safety the highest priority and that you are strongly working together with others. You are a specialist in your area of expertise and you have a proactive and entrepreneurial attitude.

Specific Requirements for the Legal Counsel:

Education & Experience

Desirable

• Higher vocational / bachelor degree; technical, commercial or law
• Negotiate T&C’s by explaining and convincing
• Understanding of industry and its stakeholders
• Understanding of contracts (scope, commercial models and legal), as well as understanding of mono discipline project dynamics

We understand that our people are key to achieving Storks ambition to be the Industry reference every day, everywhere and we are proud to have been awarded the Investors in People Gold standard in recognition of our strong employee engagement focus.

Working conditions

There are many great reasons to work at Stork – 

Competitive Benefits

In order to attract and retain skilled, competent and customer focused people we offer a competitive and extensive benefits package providing a suite of both contractual and voluntary benefits including access to corporate discounts. Employee benefits will depend on work location and role, however, may include life assurance, income protection, and private medical insurance.

In addition we recognize the importance of providing flexibility to our employees and offer a Flexi Friday working arrangement as well as the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.

Location: Dyce, Aberdeen
Hours: 40 hours
Contract: Permanent

Company Information

Stork, a Fluor company, is an expert provider of maintenance, modification and asset integrity services to the global oil and gas, chemicals and process, metals and mining, power, and manufacturing industries. We are dedicated to improving asset performance, safety and cost efficiency for our Clients throughout the complete asset life cycle. 

With a team of 19,000 employees in over 100 countries, we serve more than 4,000 Clients across 6 continents. 

Stork is dedicated to reducing risk, assuring safety and reducing environment impact through our award-winning value driven HSEQ platform; Safer together Whilst safety will always remain our core value, the platform not only communicates on Safety but also on Health, Environmental and Quality issues too.  We are committed to our transparent, employee-led approach to HSEQ.

One Team, One Stork

As one Stork, we treat all people with dignity, respect each other’s perspective and share knowledge and resources to achieve excellence, deliver value and grow individually and collectively. 

We are fully committed to the elimination of unlawful and unfair discrimination and value the difference that a diverse workforce brings to the organisation. Stork recognises that providing equality of opportunity, valuing diversity and promoting a culture of inclusion and flexibility to our employees is vital to our success.

From school leavers and university graduates to transitioning military veterans, we provide career opportunities with targeted development programmes. 

Going above and beyond for our wider community

Stork is dedicated to ensuring we are a socially and environmentally responsible employer and undertake a range of activities to give back and support the communities in which we live and work – from various charity work to working with schools as part of Developing Young Workforce.