The Exploration Company
Contract Manager
Munich, Germany or Bordeaux, France. Posted 17 days ago
The role
The Contract Manager will own the change lifecycle for assigned contracts. You will drive Contract Change Notices from initial request to signature and protect the company's position on scope, cost, and schedule.
What you will do
- Own the CCN lifecycle from receipt or initiation through impact assessment, negotiation, approval, and formal issue
- Define a process to identifying extra effort from the team which could be characterized into a CCN request
- Chase and track open CCNs with customer contracting officers, program managers, and internal stakeholders
- Coordinate impact assessments with engineering, quality, supply chain, and finance
- Prepare and negotiate change proposals, including pricing justification and changes to terms and conditions
- Maintain the contract baseline by recording each approved CCN in the contract register
- Monitor entitlement and notice obligations
- Manage the CCN register and reporting
- Support invoicing and revenue recognition
- Ensure compliance with contract terms, procurement rules, and internal policies
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of B2G experience (sales, procurement or contract management)
- An understanding of complex contracts with Institutions like ESA, EU, Space agencies
- Strong negotiation, presentation, and proposal-writing skills
- Fluency in English
Nice to have
- Ideally in aerospace, space, defence industries
- Additional fluency in German, French, or Italian is a strong advantage
- Experience either as Contract manager in space company or as Contract officer in institution like ESA is welcome
Benefits
- Relocation assistance is provided for those willing to relocate including visa sponsorship where applicable
Before you apply
- All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check
- The Exploration Company partners with Zinc Work Limited to ensure this process
About the company
The Exploration Company builds spacecraft for humanity and builds complex space systems under contracts with government and institutional customers.