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With a strong track record and deep expertise in electronics and communications, the company designs, manufactures, and supports advanced, high-performance solutions for complex and demanding environments.\nOperating in highly specialized markets, EID is driven by a continuous focus on innovation. Its growth is grounded in the ability to develop and deliver technologically advanced products tailored to meet specific customer needs.\nAt the core of EID's success is its team of highly skilled professionals, with a strong concentration of engineers in electronics, software, and communications. Their expertise and experience play a key role in shaping the company's capabilities and ongoing evolution.\nEID is a subsidiary of Cohort plc which is listed on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in London.\nWhat You'll Do\nAs a Contracts Manager, you'll be at the heart of our commercial operations: managing contracts across their full lifecycle while ensuring legal compliance and protecting company interests. You'll serve as a critical link between business development, supply chain, project management, and legal stakeholders.\nKey Responsibilities\nContract Lifecycle Management: Ensure that contracts with both domestic and international customers, suppliers, and partners comply with minimum commercial and legal terms and the group's corporate guidelines. Manage effective contract execution through the lifecycle, from the issue of internal authorization through to contract closure, including the contractual relationship with clients and suppliers throughout the life cycle of projects. Manage the preparation of responses to contract conditions and support of the request for bid approvals at both EID's departmental and Cohort levels.\nNegotiation & Advisory: Support negotiations with customers, suppliers, and partners, reviewing contract terms and conditions leading to contract award and acceptance, by liaising (handover) with the business development, supply chain team, and project management teams. Formulate and obtain internal approval for all agreements to be entered into as prime or sub-contractor, and to review and recommend the entry into all contractual commitments with customers on behalf of EID. Collaborate with the different departments to negotiate favourable terms, driving cost efficiencies without compromising quality or service levels. Provide general commercial legal advice on contractual issues.\nRisk Management: Anticipate and identify legal risks and develop strategies to address and mitigate them. Support for resolving contractual disputes, facilitating resolution in a timely manner. Manage contractual risks, variations, and claims.\nLegal & Compliance: Compare, adjust, and apply preferred legal drafting to standard and non-standard EID Agreements. Support EID's compliance and other legal tasks, including liaising with legal firms.\nWhat You'll Bring\nEducation: University Degree in Law (preferred), Business Administration, Management, or similar\nProfessional Experience:\nMinimum 2 years' experience in contract management, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial contracts\n\nExperience supporting project teams throughout contract execution\n\nExperience managing contractual risks, variations, and claims, and working with different teams\n\nExperience with international commercial or construction contracts\n\nExperience in the maritime or defence sector is desirable\n\nTechnical Competencies:\nAbility to understand and execute contractual matters, understanding standard and non-standard requests, and proposing contractual structures and solutions\n\nExperience in managing the end-to-end life-cycle of contracts, including negotiation and execution\n\nUser-friendly computer skills\n\nAbility to express oneself accurately in Portuguese and English, both spoken and written\n\nBehavioral Competencies:\nGood communication and collaboration skills\n\nGood organizational skills and attention to detail\n\nProblem-solving and analytical skills\n\nRisk management skills\n\nAbility to work under pressure\n\nAdaptability\n\nWhat We Offer\nSustained and progressive development of the candidate's know-how\n\nA competitive package according with your experience\n\nA work culture that puts emphasis on the individual, offering flexible working solutions\n\n22 vacation days plus 2 extra days fixed by the company and your birthday off\n\nPrivate health insurance\n\nIf you're excited about working on complex systems and contributing to innovative communication and network solutions, we'd love to head from you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4825,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule","Health insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Professional Services","Human Resources","Recruiting & Staffing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-07T18:53:57Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":6,"expected_fill_days":151,"reasons":["conf:33","velocity","win:early","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-10-14T06:34:16Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hiire-contracts-manager-eid","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hiire-contracts-manager-eid.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-15T04:35:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6677,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":692361},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=692361"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhiire-contracts-manager-eid"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhiire-contracts-manager-eid"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhiire-contracts-manager-eid"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/hiire-contracts-manager-eid\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhiire-contracts-manager-eid"}]}