Senior Contracts Manager ✓
📍 Abu Dhabi
Published: 13 February 2026
Updated: 1 hour ago
📝 Description
📋 What you will do
- Manage the full contract lifecycle from drafting and negotiation to execution and amendments
- Develop and standardize contract templates, playbooks, and baseline commercial positions
- Lead negotiations for complex, high-value procurements including satellite buses, subsystems, payloads, and launch services
- Align technical scope and specifications with Engineering
- Work with Supply Chain and Program teams to align contract terms with schedule, cost, and risk objectives
- Structure and negotiate customer agreements for hardware and services
- Support Sales and leadership in shaping commercially sound deal structures
- Identify contractual risks and develop mitigation strategies
- Manage liability allocation, warranties, termination clauses, export control considerations, and flow-down requirements
- Develop negotiation frameworks that support long-term scalability
- Partner with Finance, Engineering, Legal, Supply Chain, and Program Management
- Translate contractual terms into operationally enforceable outcomes
- Monitor industry trends, regulatory requirements, and evolving space market dynamics
- Provide commercial insights and recommendations to leadership
🛠 Stack and skills
Contract lifecycle management
Contract templates
Negotiation frameworks
Commercial risk management
Export control
Space industry
English
✅ What we expect
- Strong contractual expertise
- Solid commercial judgment
- Ability to operate in a technically driven environment
- Experience handling complex, high-value deals
- Ability to work with cross-functional teams
- Senior-level experience