Strategic Contract Manager

As Scout’s Strategic Contract Manager, you will play a key role in the contracting for the fastest-growing technologies in the power sector: utility-scale wind, solar, energy storage, and related construction services. Your ability to draw on your knowledge of a combination of the commercial, legal and related aspects of renewables will enable our team to make better informed decisions. You will help develop and execute negotiating strategies, lead contracts, and serve as Scout’s contracting representative to our vendors and partners.

This dynamic position will allow you to directly impact Scout’s long-term ability to power the energy transition. You will gain exposure to a broad spectrum of work – across technologies, and interacting with many teams within Scout.

You will join Scout’s Procurement and Contracts team, which is responsible for optimizing for the lowest cost of energy to Scout while maintaining safety and quality.

This is a new role developed to support the explosive growth in Scout’s portfolio of projects in development and construction.

Key duties in your role will include the following:

• Lead contract negotiations for Turbine Supply, Balance of Plant/Systems and/or other major equipment contracts for Scout.  This includes exhibit management in conjunction with Scout subject matter experts.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Construction, Development, Legal, and other Scout functions to ensure appropriate attention to key terms and conditions.
• Work with Legal and other Scout functions to develop and improve contract templates for key Equipment and Construction contracts.
• Support Construction, Operations and other Scout teams post contract signature, to ensure contracts are understood by the teams using them.
• Support “lessons learned” on Contracts, so that key learnings from Construction, Operations and other teams are considered in future contracts.
• Develop options for Scout’s negotiating position for supply and construction services and drive the execution of the selected approaches.
• Offer intelligent recommendations to management on the best choices for Scout with respect to key terms and conditions and other contractual considerations.
• Support and actively propose Procurement and Contracts continuous improvement initiatives.
• Complete other duties as assigned.
• We will rely on you to develop systems and tools to drive efficiency in our work. To do so, we expect that you will integrate the expertise you have developed in previous roles while continuing to advance your knowledge of our industry and innovation in contracts.