Contract Manager

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Your role
Saab AB, Business Area Surveillance, is looking for a collaborative business lawyer to support the procurement department. As a Contract Manager, you will have many interfaces, both internally and externally and you will work close together with the different Business Units within Surveillance. In close cooperation with different group functions such as Group Legal Affairs, you will support our purchasers in contract drafting and negotiations and be responsible for developing our agreements, tools and processes. The role is located in Solna.

Main tasks:

• Support that customer requirements are secured and included in our supplier agreements when requested
• Review and provide practical advice on our different agreements, such as purchase agreements, NDA's etc.
• Actively support the purchasing team and participate in contract negotiations
• Provide guidance and advice for contract related matters to the procurement organization
• Evaluate, assess and prevent risks during the different phases of the procurement process
• Together with Group Legal Affairs, as well as the purchasers, work preventively with improvements in our contract documents, working methods and methodology
• In collaboration with Group Legal Affairs, inform and educate the procurement department in the field of business law, legal risks and contract management
• When needed, represent Business Area Surveillance in Saab's agreement development team
• Report legal and compliance matters to Group Legal Affairs

Your profile
To be successful in this role, you are a business-oriented person with good communication skills who can identify and mitigate risks. You can easily create new relationships and a good climate of cooperation with both internal and external partners. Furthermore, you are solution oriented, think and act strategically, and have a broad perspective on challenges in your work. You have a good ability to work independently as well as in teams, and work towards set goals and schedules.

Required skills:

• You have an academic education in law
• Minimum 3-7 years of experience of legal practice, preferably within business and/or contract law
• You have experience in drafting, reviewing and interpreting commercial agreements
• You are structured and have an analytical mindset
• You are a business-oriented team player with good social skills who thrive in collaborative environments
• Operationally sensitive to Procurement's needs
• Excellent communication skills in Swedish and English, verbal and written

Desired skills:

• Experience and competence in contract management and contract negotiation is highly meritorious
• Experience working with contract law and business law
• Project management experience
• Experience from the defense industry or industrial companies

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

What You Will Be a Part Of
Explore a wealth of possibilities. Take on challenges, create smart inventions, and grow beyond. This is a place for curious minds, brave pioneers, and everyone in between. Together, we achieve the extraordinary, each bringing our unique perspectives. Your part matters.

Saab is a leading defence and security company with an enduring mission, to help nations keep their people and society safe. Empowered by its 26,100 talented people, Saab constantly pushes the boundaries of technology to create a safer and more sustainable world.

Saab designs, manufactures and maintains advanced systems in aeronautics, weapons, command and control, sensors and underwater systems. Saab is headquartered in Sweden. It has major operations all over the world and is part of the domestic defence capability of several nations. Read more about us here.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement.