Contract Specialist
Pubblicato il 04-10-2026 - Arkad in Italia
We are looking for a Contract Specialist to join our Engineering Team in Milan.
Purpose of the role:
- Supporting oversight and governance of the company's contract management processes, controls and tools throughout all areas of operation, including bidding, project delivery and operations.
- Reporting on contractual and risk areas
- Providing assistance in enforcing and defending Arkad SpA contractual interests against customer and suppliers during the whole of a project life cycle, including monitoring and assessment of changes and deviations
- Defending and enforcing claims.
- Managing contractual aspects of claims and disputes to the extent of role’s accountability
- Providing legal, contractual and commercial know-how in respect to Arkad SpA’s partnerships and strategic alliances; (joint-ventures, consortia, etc.)
Primary responsibilities and duties:
- Help ensure the portfolio of contracts in the business follows contract and claim management methodologies in accordance with internal standard procedures.
- Review and comment on commercial and technical tender terms and conditions.
- Help develop contract strategy based on Arkad SpA policies, customer requirements, and the overall execution strategy taking into account risk, pricing, scope, and schedule.
- Identify the contract baseline (including terms and conditions, specifications, drawings, estimate, proposal, schedule and other documents incorporated in the contract) and highlights areas of potential risk.
- Help ensure timely and accurate execution of commercial aspects in portfolio of contracts (i.e. payments, claims, variation orders, warranties, provisions, guarantees, etc.).
- Assist Manager in verifying that both parties to the contract have fulfilled their contractual obligations and there are no responsibilities outstanding.
- Support Manager in assessing success of the contract and determine if there are any lessons learned for future contracting.
- Document and communicate to relevant parties a