Senior Contract Manager - Supply Chain & Procurement

Your Crew:

Join our dedicated and collaborative Legal & Compliance Team, where we provide trusted legal guidance and strategic support across all areas of the business. As a key member of the team, you will work closely with stakeholders from diverse functions, helping to navigate legal matters, manage risks, and enable business success in a highly regulated and innovative environment. Our team combines expertise across commercial, corporate, compliance, governance, and contract law, supporting both local and international operations.

Your Mission:

Contract Change Management

• With a special focus on Procurement contracts, lead the drafting, review, negotiation, and implementation of contract changes, amendments, and commercial terms, ensuring optimal commercial and operational outcomes.
• Assess commercial, technical, operational, and financial impacts of proposed changes, recommending negotiation strategies and decision pathways.
• Ensure all contracting activities comply with company policy, regulatory standards, export-control rules, and internal governance frameworks.
• Identify and mitigate risks within the contracting process while proactively driving continuous improvement and resolving discrepancies.
• Prepare high-quality claims files, commercial analyses, and risk summaries for senior leadership.
• Advise Procurement, Sales, Project Management, Finance, and senior stakeholders on negotiation positions, risk trade-offs, and change-order strategies.
• Coordinate cross-functionally with Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Legal to ensure end-to-end alignment on obligations, dependencies, and contract execution risks.

NDA Review & Document Control

• Conduct the final commercial and compliance review of NDAs prior to signature, ensuring adherence to Legal guidance and providing clear recommendations for deviations
• Ensure all quotations and bid submissions contain complete, accurate, and compliant documentation
• Verify that internal agreements meet required commercial baselines and escalate issues where standards are not met
• Maintain fully traceable, structured, and audit-ready contract and change documentation 

Compliance, Customer Requirements & Risk Management

• Partner with the Global SCH Compliance Manager and Global Cyber Security leadership to interpret and implement compliance requirements into binding contracts.

• Anticipate and articulate compliance risks, advising on risk exposure and mitigation strategies.

Your Story:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Law, Engineering, or related field or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience as a Contract Manager in procurement creating, and editing written machinery project related agreements, procurement agreements or other pertinent agreements as required 
• Experienced within contracts handling, NDA reviews and PO reviews
• Strong communication and coordination skills
• Ability to handle multiple priorities and meet critical deadlines

Nice to have’s:

• Experience in Export Compliance matters from regulatory bodies like the U.S. Departments of State and Commerce
• Experience in space or related industry is a plus

Why Beyond Gravity

• Work in an international environment with global mindset and high-tech products that will fly into space
• A highly specialized and motivated team with a lot of know-how in a unique industry
• We live a hands-on mentality and take suggestions for improvement seriously
• Attractive employment conditions (contribution to public transport, trainings and development opportunities, full paid maternity/paternity leave and many more)
• Flexible and mobile working and at least 5 weeks of vacation with possibility to buy additional vacation