Gestionnaire de contrats

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Gestionnaire de contrats based in Canada.

Take ownership of contract management for major hydroelectric projects across Québec, from bidding through execution, project closeout, and warranty.
You will act as a key commercial expert, shaping contractual strategies that directly influence project success, profitability, and long-term sustainability.
The role combines contract expertise, negotiation, risk management, and close collaboration with project and commercial teams.
You will help identify contractual risks and opportunities while protecting commercial interests and ensuring compliance with contractual obligations.
Working across clients, suppliers, subcontractors, legal teams, procurement, and project leadership, you will contribute to complex decisions and negotiations.
The environment is dynamic and highly collaborative, offering the opportunity to solve complex challenges and influence major infrastructure projects.
This is a remote position with significant scope for professional growth and meaningful impact on the future of hydroelectric energy in North America.

Accountabilities:

• End-to-End Contract Management: Manage all contractual aspects of hydroelectric projects from bid preparation through execution, project closure, and the warranty period, including drafting, reviewing, and adapting commercial clauses to meet project requirements.
• Contract Strategy and Execution: Develop and implement contract strategies tailored to individual project challenges, working closely with project leadership to secure contractual positions, mitigate risks, and capture opportunities.
• Changes, Claims, and Amendments: Prepare and manage change notices, amendments, claims, and other contractual requests in accordance with contractual obligations, while participating in negotiations and finalization with clients, partners, suppliers, and subcontractors.
• Risk and Opportunity Management: Analyze contracts to identify risks, opportunities, deviations, and areas of concern, and develop and maintain contract management plans and appropriate mitigation strategies.
• Commercial Protection: Provide recommendations that protect commercial and contractual interests, ensure relevant requirements are flowed down to suppliers and subcontractors on a back-to-back basis, and monitor changes to preserve contractual rights.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with project teams, commercial leaders, legal, procurement, clients, suppliers, subcontractors, and other stakeholders to resolve contractual issues, support decision-making, and maintain strong professional relationships.
• Compliance and Performance: Monitor contractual obligations, milestones, deviations, correspondence, notifications, insurance matters, delays, variations, and claims while maintaining accurate documentation, traceability, and performance tracking throughout the project lifecycle.
• Escalation and Continuous Improvement: Participate in project risk and opportunity reviews, openly escalate significant issues to leadership, coordinate with legal teams on major claims or disputes, and contribute to improved commercial procedures and practices.

Requirements

• Education and Experience: Hold a university degree in Engineering, Law, Business, Finance, or a related technical discipline, combined with at least 7 years of demonstrated contract management experience in complex project environments such as Energy, EPC, Construction, or Infrastructure.
• Contract Management Expertise: Demonstrate strong experience structuring, compiling, drafting, and negotiating complex, high-value contract amendments, changes, and other commercial documentation in accordance with contractual standards and requirements.
• Project Financial Understanding: Possess a solid understanding of project financial considerations, including costs, margins, and risks, and how these factors connect to effective contract management.
• EPC and Project Knowledge: Bring proven experience with turnkey EPC projects and the ability to understand the commercial and contractual dynamics of complex project environments.
• Negotiation and Risk Management: Demonstrate effective negotiation skills with internal and external stakeholders, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to anticipate, assess, and proactively mitigate contractual and commercial risks.
• Claims and Disputes: Experience managing major claims or dispute files is highly desirable, along with the ability to recommend practical solutions to complex contractual issues.
• Communication and Collaboration: Have excellent communication, relationship-building, and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across project, commercial, legal, procurement, client, and partner organizations.
• Languages: Have excellent written and spoken French and the ability to work effectively in English with global teams and international partners.
• Problem-Solving and Organization: Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, sound judgment, the ability to manage multiple priorities, and comfort working in a dynamic and complex matrix environment.
• Professional Approach: Bring a proactive, accountable, transparent, and improvement-oriented mindset, with a willingness to identify opportunities and implement practical enhancements to contract management processes.

Benefits

• Remote Work: Fully remote position, offering flexibility while supporting major hydroelectric projects in Québec and across North America.
• Professional Impact: Opportunity to influence major hydroelectric and infrastructure projects and contribute to the advancement of clean and reliable energy.
• Career Development: Exposure to complex commercial, contractual, negotiation, and project-management challenges with opportunities for professional development.
• Cross-Functional Environment: Work closely with diverse teams and stakeholders across project management, commercial, legal, procurement, engineering, clients, suppliers, and partners.
• Strategic Scope: Take ownership of contractual strategies and decisions with a direct impact on project success, risk management, and commercial performance.
• Travel and Relocation: The position is remote, with no relocation assistance provided. No specific travel requirements were stated in the source description.
• Compensation and Additional Benefits: Specific salary, healthcare, and additional benefits were not provided in the source job description.

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