Senior Legal Counsel & Contract Manager
16 Sep 2026Job Description:
Key Responsibilities:-
- Recommend contractual structures that enhance competitiveness while respecting applicable regulations and internal governance
- Draft, revise, and negotiate contractual documents with customers, partners, and subcontractors
- Contribute to internal risk reviews, financial exposure assessments, and mitigation plans
- Ability to identify opportunities to protect or improve the project's financial performance
- Support the capture and preparation of variations, extensions, new phases or related offers connected to existing program
- Prepare and present contractual sections of internal approval documentation, including clear recommendations to management
- Establish, manage, and continuously update the contractual baseline from contract signature to project closure
- Ensure full contractual awareness across the project team, enabling correct application of obligations, rights, deadlines, and deliverables
- Anticipate deviations and manage them proactively through contractual notices, waivers, amendments, claims, clarification requests, and other contractual instruments
- Anticipate and drive the project’s risk and opportunity strategy, in close collaboration with project leadership, including claim preparation, defensive measures, and value‑protection initiatives, proposing defensible, practical solutions
- Oversee all incoming and outgoing contractual communications with the customer, ensuring consistency, traceability, and strategic alignment
- Drive consistent contract interpretation and commercial decision-making aligned with company policy and risk appetite.
- Act as the reference point for all contractual matters within the perimeter
- Provide strategic and operational contractual advice to internal stakeholders
- Support relevant compliance processes for the tenders and projects (e.g., third‑party screenings) in coordination with the Compliance Officer (Antitrust, Anticorruption, Personal Data Protection (incl. GDPR), Trade compliance & Duty of vigilance), in particular:
- Provide country legal intelligence and knowledge to the relevant global, regional, or corporate stakeholders
Requirements:
- Advanced academic background in Law, Contract Management, Business, or related field, equivalent to a Master’s degree‑level qualification (EU/UK/SG/US or other comparable higher‑education systems) including a Specialization in Law,
- 10 to 15 years of demonstrated experience as a legal counsel or contract manager working in an international context and as part of the legal department of a multinational company, preferably in the Defence/Aviation space
- Endowed with analytical and synthesis skills, you assess situations accurately and can easily propose pragmatic solutions,
- Understand the stakes associated with a major international Group’s compliance program,
- Master the techniques related to third-party review (third-party screening) and are able to conduct compliance analyses,
- Developed strong proactivity towards stakeholders and good ability to manage priorities,
- Travel on regular basis over the Region (up to once a month) and from time-to-time to Europe (up to once a year).
All Successful candidates can expect a very competitive remuneration package and a comprehensive range of benefits.
Kindly email your resume in a detailed Word/pdf format to ashley@peopleprofilers.com
We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified
People Profilers Pte Ltd
Tel: 6950 9753
EA Registration Number: R1111375
EA licence number 02C4944
EA Personnel: Lee Hui En Ashley
Salary:
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