Senior Manager, Commercial Contracts
Fervo EnergyHouston, TX
Full Time
Posted October 16, 2026
$123k - $175k· Est.
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- Freshness
- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed October 17, 2026
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- Modern power-system classification not yet published for this listing.Legacy source industry field: Energy Management
- Pay provenance
- Estimated benchmark; not employer-provided
Job Description
The Senior Manager, Commercial Contracts will provide end-to-end commercial leadership for major equipment supply agreements and other strategic project contracts on a “cradle to grave” basis.
Key Responsibilities
- Sourcing Events: Partner with Procurement and Engineering to plan and execute sourcing events for assigned major equipment and construction contracts, including commercial RFP content, contractual exceptions, bid evaluation, and award recommendations.
- Negotiations: Lead day-to-day negotiations of equipment supply agreements, purchase terms, framework agreements, services agreements, amendments, and related commercial instruments under Legal’s direction. Negotiate pricing and payment mechanics, delivery commitments, performance obligations, liquidated damages, warranties, security, changes, acceptance, remedies, termination, and closeout requirements.
- Contract Management Planning: Establish and maintain a contract-management plan for each assigned agreement, including obligations, milestones, deliverables, notices, change orders, payment conditions, liquidated damages, securities, acceptance requirements, and warranty periods.
- Supplier Contact and Record Keeping: Serve as the principal commercial contracts contact for assigned suppliers after award, and maintain the definitive record of notices, decisions, changes, claims, backcharges, and unresolved obligations.
- Change Control: Administer change control, evaluate supplier requests with Engineering, Project Controls, and Procurement, and negotiate approved change orders and commercial settlements within delegated authority.
- Warranty and Supplier Recoveries: Lead the commercial management of warranty claims and supplier recoveries, including repair, replacement, reperformance, field service, expedited logistics, and recoverable costs.
- Supplier Performance: Establish supplier performance measures and KPIs, lead periodic commercial reviews, and provide early warning of material cost, schedule, performance, and contractual risks.
- Formal Correspondence and Disputes: Coordinate amendments, cure notices, reservations of rights, and other formal correspondence with Legal, and support material disputes with an organized factual and contractual record.
- Portfolio Reporting: Maintain concise portfolio reporting on negotiations, obligations, changes, claims, warranties, supplier exposure, deadlines, and required management decisions.
- Closeout and Lessons Learned: Conduct after-action reviews following each agreement’s closeout, and provide feedback to the Legal, Procurement, and Engineering teams to improve future contracting and sourcing decisions.
- Scalable Procedures: Develop scalable contract-management procedures, templates, playbooks, registers, and training, and incorporate execution lessons into future contracts and procurement decisions.
- CLM Process Ownership: Assess current contracting and post-execution processes from first principles, and serve as the business process owner for CLM workflows covering intake, negotiation, approvals, obligations, notices, changes, warranties, claims, and closeout.
- AI-Enabled Workflows: Apply AI to defined contract-management use cases such as clause and obligation extraction, contract summaries, notice preparation, issue tracking, and reporting, with appropriate validation, human review, confidentiality, security, and access controls.
- Data-Driven Improvement: Use contract data and baseline measures to improve cycle time, notice compliance, change-order aging, warranty recovery, data quality, and user adoption.
Requirements
- Owner or developer-side experience combined with experience at an EPC contractor, OEM, or complex industrial supplier
- Experience in power generation, renewable energy, data-center power, or other major industrial infrastructure
- Experience with turbines or ORC systems, heat exchangers, pumps, process skids, transformers, switchgear, control systems, or comparable long-lead equipment
- Experience with fast-track, first-of-a-kind, or design-evolving projects
- Experience as a process owner, product owner, administrator, or implementation lead for a CLM platform, AI-enabled contracting solution, or related reporting system, with measurable improvement in a contract-management outcome
Benefits & Perks
- Fervo offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and life outside of work. Benefits for eligible employees include:
- Medical, dental, and vision plan options
- Employer-paid basic life insurance and short-term and long-term disability coverage
- A 401(k) plan with a dollar-for-dollar company match
- Flexible paid time off and paid parental leave
- Family-building, fertility, hormonal health, pregnancy, postpartum, and parenting support through Carrot
- A dependent care FSA for eligible child and elder care expenses
- An annual Lifestyle Spending Account for eligible wellness expenses, including fitness, financial planning, pet insurance, and pet care
- Employee ownership opportunities through Fervo’s Employee Stock Purchase Program, as well as stock option grants and bonus opportunities for eligible roles
- Benefits and programs are subject to eligibility requirements and may change.
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