Job Description
The Senior Contracts Manager will oversee all contractual activities related to high-value procurements and customer agreements in the space industry, including contract strategy, negotiations, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration to support the company's satellite manufacturing and deployment goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the full lifecycle of contracts, including drafting, negotiation, execution, and amendments.
- Develop and standardize contract templates, playbooks, and baseline commercial positions.
- Lead negotiations for complex, high-value procurement contracts such as satellite buses, payloads, and launch services.
- Structure and negotiate customer agreements for hardware and services.
- Identify contractual risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Manage liability allocation, warranties, termination clauses, export controls, and flow-down requirements.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure contractual terms align with operational, schedule, and risk objectives.
- Stay informed on industry trends, regulatory requirements, and market dynamics to provide commercial insights.
Requirements
- Strong contractual expertise, commercial judgment, and the ability to operate in a technically driven environment within the space industry.
- Experience owning the full lifecycle of contracts, including drafting, negotiation, execution, and amendments.
- Ability to develop and standardize contract templates, playbooks, and baseline commercial positions.
- Experience leading negotiations for complex, high-value procurements such as satellite buses, subsystems, payloads, launch services, and ground station services.
- Partnering with Engineering to ensure technical scope and specifications are clearly defined.
- Working closely with Supply Chain and Program teams to align contract terms with schedule, cost, and risk objectives.
- Experience structuring and negotiating customer agreements for hardware and services.
- Supporting sales and leadership in shaping commercially sound deal structures.
- Ensuring customer contracts protect company IP, liability positions, and delivery risk.
- Identifying contractual risks and defining mitigation strategies.
- Managing liability allocation, warranties, termination clauses, export control considerations, and flow-down requirements.
- Developing negotiation frameworks that support long-term scalability.
- Partnering with Finance, Engineering, Legal, Supply Chain, and Program Management to translate contractual terms into operationally enforceable outcomes.
- Ensuring contract obligations are clearly understood across teams.
- Staying informed on industry trends, regulatory requirements, and evolving space market dynamics.
- Providing commercial insights and recommendations to leadership.
- Educational background or experience relevant to the space industry or complex contract management (implied, as the role requires operating in a space industry environment).
Benefits & Perks
Competitive salary and compensation package
Work in a technically driven environment within the space industry
Opportunity to lead and manage complex, high-value contracts
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Finance, Engineering, Legal, Supply Chain, and Program Management
Be part of a pioneering company aiming to mass-manufacture satellites in the UAE
Work at a large facility in Abu Dhabi
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