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From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.\nCould you be the Senior Contract Manager we’re looking for?\nTake on a new challenge and bring your contract and claims management expertise to complex mobility projects.\nAs Senior Contract Manager, you’ll be a key member of the project team, working closely with Project Managers, Project Directors and colleagues across Finance, Planning, Sourcing, Legal and other functions. Your impact will be to turn contractual insight into proactive action, helping the project anticipate risk, protect Alstom’s interests and identify opportunities throughout the project lifecycle.\nYou’ll take the lead on contract and claim management strategies, including contractual notices, variations, extensions of time, amendments, claims and counterclaims, while ensuring that the project maintains the robust records and substantiation needed for effective negotiations.\nYour role, your impact\nWe’ll look to you to:\nShape and drive the project’s contract and claims strategy, anticipating contractual risks and opportunities and translating them into pragmatic actions.\nProtect contractual and commercial interests by monitoring obligations, milestones, correspondence and notices, and ensuring contractual actions are taken at the right time.\nLead complex claims and change management, including variations, extensions of time, amendments, claims and counterclaims, from identification and substantiation through negotiation and closure.\nPartner with project leadership and cross-functional teams to provide clear contractual and commercial analysis that supports project decisions, risk mitigation and project profitability.\nStrengthen contract management capability by sharing expertise, developing colleagues and promoting proactive contract management practices across the project.What you bring\n\nWe value the expertise, behaviours and judgement that will help you succeed in the role. 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