Stadler Rail Group
Wallisellen
Stadler: Senior Contract Manager
- 23 October 2026
- 100%
- Wallisellen
Job summary
Stadler offers diverse opportunities for an international career. Join us to grow, take responsibility, and achieve great results together.
Tasks
- Create value and limit risks during contract drafting.
- Conduct commercial contract analysis for customer tenders.
- Support project management with contractual questions.
Skills
- Degree in engineering or law with contract expertise; 10+ years experience.
- Strong knowledge of public tenders and international practices.
- Fluent in German and English; French is a plus.
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About the job
Stadler offers diverse opportunities for an international career. At Stadler, you get the chance to grow beyond yourself, take on responsibility, and deliver outstanding team performance. We are looking for motivated talents who want to shape the future of mobility with us. Are you ready to achieve great things with us?
YOUR AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
- Inspires the creation of added value and limitation of risks during contract drafting
- Commercial contract analysis within the framework of customer tenders
- Prepares concise analyses for management decisions and shares knowledge with the company team
- Supports project management & procurement with contractual questions during the execution of ongoing orders
- Contact person for contractual and legal questions
- Contributes to compliance with essential company policies
- Optimises the contract management system of the Signalling division
YOUR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Industrial engineer or university engineer with solid further training in contract law, alternatively BLaw/MLaw with good technical understanding
- Applied experience of more than 10 years; has accompanied contracts of major orders in detail both in offers and project execution
- Experience with customer claims
- Familiar with public tenders and IFIs; knows international practices
- Experience in project management function with commercial responsibility in major projects is an advantage
- Industry knowledge: preferably railway, but also power plant construction, shipbuilding, aircraft construction, other large-scale plant construction
- Very good German and English skills, additional foreign languages (specifically French) are an advantage
- Pragmatic, reliable, eager to learn, proactive & conveys/shares knowledge
- High commitment and independence, navigates confidently in a complex business environment
YOUR BENEFITS
- Discounts on various leisure activities, mobile phone subscriptions and insurance
- Regular company events
- Participation in further training
Chiara Decarolis-Grütter
HR Manager
+41 79 920 10 81