Procurement Trainee – Contract Management

Job Description Summary: Reporting to the Head of Operational Contract Management within the Procurement Department, the trainee will play an important role in supporting best contract management practices and systems to achieve excellence in operations.

Core Responsibilities

• Contract Lifecycle Management: Support the team with ongoing commercial contract management post contract award (claims, variation orders, amendments, defects, notice to correct, LDs).
• Safeguarding Obligations: Support in managing payments to strategic suppliers in collaboration with the project team.
• Vendor Management: Support suppliers’ qualifications and performance under live contracts and support resolution of contractual disputes and commercial settlements.
• Offer Management: Analyze and compare contractors’ offers for O&M services and suppliers’ offers for services and strategic components supply.
• Inter‑departmental Coordination: Liaise closely with other operational departments and especially Asset Management and Asset Maintenance, providing support to resolve any contractor performance discrepancies.
• Legal: Support in the coordination and management of internal contract review processes to ensure timely receipt of all internal approvals required for contract execution.
• Procurement: Support the procurement of certain key technical services and strategic equipment, including equipment and services for reliability and improvement initiatives.
• Asset Management: Support the Asset Management and Asset Procurement teams in the definition of O&M strategies and negotiation of new O&M contracts.

What We Are Looking For

• Education: Degree in law, business administration, or management.
• Qualities and Skills: Fluent in English (knowledge of a second language is a plus). Critical‑thinking, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills. Planning, organising, and time‑management abilities. Ability to prepare contractual assessments and reports. High level knowledge of Microsoft Office (especially Word and Excel). Ability to foster and maintain strategic relationships through strong interpersonal skills.

Location: Milano - Martesana

Time Type: Full time

Worker Subtype: Intern (Fixed Term)