Legal and Contracts Manager

Chez Flowbird, vous travaillerez dans un environnement international, technologique et innovant. L’univers de la mobilité étant en perpétuelle évolution, vous relèverez des défis et des challenges répondant aux besoins de millions d’usagers. Pour ce faire, nous dédions un budget conséquent à la formation afin de développer vos compétences.

Legal and Contracts Manager (F/H)

Localisation
Neuilly-sur-Seine

Position
As an international position, the Contract Manager has a direct-line report to the Head of Legal Contracts and Compliance.
- Develop, analyse, negotiate and finalise all kind of contracts, in coordination with the pertaining business team (e.g. sales, project, R&D, purchasing)
- The Contract Manager works closely with any necessary Flowbird’s teams and has access to all documents and staff members, as and when required. For large tenders or projects, the Contract Manager will be a key member of the bid or project team.
- The Contract Manager has authority for commercial and contractual matters related to tender approval, project execution and contract variations.
- The Contract Manager participates to opportunity, bid and project reviews.
- The Contract Manager works within the framework of Flowbird internal rules, policies and standards and the relevant country legal requirements.
- The Contract Manager is the local point of contact for any ESG matter and the ESG program deployment.

Missions
Contract Manager’s role is to safeguard the long-term success of Flowbird by ensuring that Flowbird’s obligations, rights and entitlements are considered, established, understood, and preserved, and that the duties and obligations of the client or subcontractor are met, and their rights respected.
As a business partner, the Contract Manager supports the Managers in their strategic decisions (with customers, suppliers, group entities, etc.)

**Contract Manager’s Main Missions**:

- Develop, analyse, negotiate and finalise all kind of contracts, in coordination with the pertaining business team (e.g. sales, project, R&D, purchasing)
- Proactively identify and negotiate amendments, changes and claim (customers, partners, etc.) in order to protect and improve Flowbird’s situation in collaboration with project teams
- Set-up and/or participate in risks reviews/opportunities by proposing action plans to reduce risks and highlighting the opportunities to maximize their achievement
- Manage and facilitate the resolution of pre-litigation situations and prepare, follow any legal dispute
- Help to develop awareness of contract management good practice internally and, where necessary, participate in training or coaching of internal staff (e.g. project managers, sales, lead engineers, etc)
- Ensure the safety of all contractual commitments and work within Flowbird guidelines and levels of authority
- Proactively contribute to the improvement and optimisation of Flowbird’s legal and contract management best practices, templates and/or any other documents etc.
- Contribute to the improvement and optimisation of Flowbird’s finance KPIs (Cash, profitability and revenue) with finance team based on risks and contract opportunities
- Ensure the defence of commercial, contractual and legal aspects of tenders:

- The Contract Manager will assess and respond to client contract terms and conditions, working with others as necessary to identify issues, mitigate risks and create opportunities
- In tendering, the Contract Manager ensure that company risks are minimized and liability is managed, and that critical aspects of implementation, acceptance, support and performance are considered along with the financial milestones and criteria for milestone completion
- The Contract Manager is involved at the pre-sales and proposal stage of projects, especially large or complex projects and review contracts and prepare responses to these or propositions of alterations
- The above includes participating in customer meetings, presentations and contract negotiations
- Ensure the defence of commercial, contractual and legal aspects of projects:

- For complex projects, the Contract Manager takes overall responsibility for all project contractual activities. Procurement usually owns the relationship with suppliers, however, the Contract Manager will work closely with procurement and in some cases may take direct contractual responsibility, for example, where specific suppliers are identified as project-critical.
- The Contract Manager ensures the appropriate flow-down of terms to suppliers at tendering and during project negotiations and continues to be involved throughout project execution
- The Contract Manager supports the projects to identify opportunities and foresee risks in order to improve and maximise Flowbird’s finance KPIs (cash, margin, revenue) and protect the business from legal and financial exposure. The Contract Manager works with the Project Manager to ensure that risks are managed in accordance