Contract Manager

Your responsibilities: As Contract Manager, you will oversee our contracts from review and negotiation through renewal or termination. You will work closely with Procurement, Sales, Legal, Finance and project teams and ensure that risks, deadlines and obligations remain transparent. You will draft, review and negotiate contracts with customers, suppliers and partners, such as supply, framework, service, NDA and licence agreements. You will manage contract processes from approval and filing through deadline monitoring to renewal or termination. You will also administer our contract lifecycle management system and keep contract status and key metrics up to date. You will identify and assess contractual, financial and legal risks and derive appropriate measures. In doing so, you will observe internal policies and legal requirements such as GDPR and export controls. You will check whether agreed services, SLAs, prices and warranties are being complied with, and handle deviations, contract amendments and claims. You will develop and maintain contract templates, clause libraries and negotiation guidelines. You will advise internal departments on contract questions and support them with training on our contract processes. For complex questions, you will coordinate closely with the Legal department, external law firms and the teams involved. Your profile: You have completed a degree in law, business law, business administration or industrial engineering. Alternatively, you have commercial vocational training with relevant further education. You have at least three years of professional experience in contract management, procurement, sales or a legal department. You have sound knowledge of German contract and commercial law, particularly the BGB and HGB. You communicate fluently in German and English, both spoken and written, and can explain complex matters clearly and appropriately for the audience. You are proficient with MS Office and have experience with SAP S/4HANA and contract lifecycle management systems. Ideally, you are familiar with international contracts, Incoterms and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Experience in an industrial or technical environment or a certification in contract management is also a plus. You approach questions analytically, have a good sense for risks, and work in a structured, careful and independent manner. You are confident in negotiations and communicate clearly and reliably. You enjoy cross-functional work, bring different perspectives together constructively and find pragmatic solutions. Why us? You take ownership from day one: after intensive onboarding, you will build something unique with us and shape it independently, with a real influence on results. You work on something that truly matters: through your contribution, you strengthen Europe's battery supply chains and make circularity at industrial scale a reality. You are part of a mission-driven team. In a fast-paced scale-up environment, we live collaboration because we can only make a difference together. You work to the highest standards: we combine the professionalism of leading industry with the innovative strength of a first-class, research-driven technology team. You grow with us: at cylib, you will do what may be the most impactful work of your career and develop personally as we scale together.