Manager, Global Contracts (Biotech)

Overview

The Global Contract Manager is a key member of the TPI Composites global commercial team supporting our customer business relationships under long term wind blade supply agreements. TPI currently manufactures wind blades in Juarez and Matamoros, Mexico; Izmir, Türkiye; and Chennai, India and will be restarting its plant in Newton, Iowa in 2025.

The Global Contract Manager serves as the primary support resource for the global commercial team in managing our current portfolio of long term supply agreements and amendments, special agreements, and supporting drafting and negotiation of new agreements and amendments with our current and future customers.

Location

This position will be based in our Scottsdale, Arizona headquarters.

Reporting and Relationships

The Global Contract Manager reports to the Senior Vice President, Wind with dotted line reporting to our Vice President and Associate General Counsel who has responsibility for all legal reviews and approvals. The Global Contract Manager will work closely with each of our four Global Commercial Program Directors, Commercial Operations Director, local plant management, business development, legal, finance, and corporate staff of the company and is routinely presenting to the C-level of TPI and participating in negotiations with senior representatives of our customers.

Responsibilities

The Global Contract Manager has the following primary responsibilities:

Contract Portfolio Management

• Maintains the official commercial library of all the company's agreements with its customers.
• Drafts and maintains contract summaries and preces in a standard format to allow rapid answers to queries on contract terms.
• Provides contract interpretations and analysis when new business issues or problems arise.
• Supports the development of a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system in collaboration with other departments including Legal and Global Supply Chain.

Drafting and Negotiation Support

• Works closely with the commercial and legal teams to draft, review, redline, and finalize contracts, amendments, and other commercial agreements.
• Maintains the current library of contracts in negotiation with strict version control, redline generation, and status reporting.
• Reviews customer-provided contract forms to identify key issues and negotiation points.
• Participates in customer negotiations to maintain current document edits and redlines and provide support to the negotiating teams.
• Maintains library of TPI standard commercial terms.
• Provides regular status reporting of negotiations including key open points, counter proposals, and fallback positions.
• Manages the contract approval and execution process in accordance with company policies and procedures.

Business Process Improvement

• Leads the development of improved processes to efficiently manage our customer contracts, ensure accurate and timely information on business and legal questions posed by management and our customers, manage contract changes, and ensure compliance with company policies.

General

• Follows all company policies in effect including TPI Code of Conduct and Code of Ethics, Travel & Expense Policy, Safety Policy, and other policies as applicable.
• Contributes to a safe work environment through proactive reporting of safety concerns and risks, following all safety procedures, and making suggestions to improve safety of the company's operations.
• Other assignments as determined by the Senior Vice President, Wind.

Experience & Qualifications

The incumbent will have the following minimum experience and qualifications:

• Minimum seven (7) years of contract management, contract administration, or similar role preferably in an international manufacturing environment.
• Expert in complex, long term, high value contracts with detailed understanding of commercial and legal terms and conditions.
• Proven track record of drafting clear, well-structured contracts which meet the company's business and legal objectives.
• Demonstrated experience in supporting commercial negotiations working with legal and management staff with high attention to detail in drafting and editing legal documents and correspondence.
• Interest and experience in the renewable energy industry preferred.
• Comfortable with working in a highly dynamic, matrix reporting environment while managing and delivering on competing priorities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively from staff level to plant management, to C-level in customer and TPI organizations.
• High level of emotional intelligence and maturity, contributing to TPI's culture of transparency, collegiality, mutual support, and results orientation.
• High competency in MS Office applications. Self-sufficient in creating professional documents and presentations.
• BA Business Administration, Law, Supply Chain or similar field. Advanced degree (MBA or JD) or paralegal qualification is desirable.