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The company is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel & Contract Manager to oversee contractual negotiations, risk assessments, and financial mitigation strategies. The role involves drafting and reviewing contractual documents with various stakeholders, supporting project variations, and ensuring compliance with regulations and internal governance. Candidates should have strong expertise in contract law and risk management. The position offers a monthly salary of 14,500.

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Job description

[This job https://singapore.job-q.com/jobs/detail/senior-legal-counsel-contract-manager-mnc-34008 first appeared in Job-Q.com on 23 Sep 2026]

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.

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