Contract Administrator – Driving Excellence in Commercial & Legal Delivery.
This person can be based in Bath office on a hybrid working model.
Join Buro Happold, a world-class global engineering consultancy, and play a pivotal role in supporting the success of our commercial and legal operations. We’re looking for a highly organised, detail‑driven Contract Administrator to support contract execution, governance, and stakeholder coordination across our international business.
About The Role:
As a Contract Administrator, you will be the backbone of our contract management process, ensuring agreements are executed efficiently, records are meticulously maintained, and governance obligations are met. Working closely with senior stakeholders, lawyers, project leaders, and external clients, you will help uphold our commercial integrity and support the smooth running of a fast-paced, global team.
Key Responsibilities:
Contract Execution & Signature Management
- Coordinate execution of consultancy appointments, subconsultant agreements, NDAs, framework agreements, novations, and notices.
- Manage both wet and electronic signatures (DocuSign, AdobeSign), ensuring authorised signatory approval.
- Issue fully executed agreements to clients and internal teams while maintaining accurate internal records.
Contract Administration & Records
- Maintain official contract records, SharePoint folders, Vantagepoint references, and executed document libraries.
- Retrieve historic contracts and support archive document release processes.
- Log and distribute Commercial and Legal Team post appropriately.
Governance & Approvals (GCCX / CCX)
Act as administrative lead for GCCX, including:
- Circulating agendas and papers
- Issuing late waivers
- Recording and distributing minutes
- Maintaining decision records and approvals
- Supporting any follow-up actions
- Liaise with senior stakeholders on delegated authority and approval processes.
Commercial & Legal Support:
Support lawyers and commercial leads by:
- Preparing contracts for execution.
- Managing correspondence with external clients and legal representatives.
- Assisting with notices (termination, assignment, indemnities, defects).
- Conducting initial reviews of NDAs.
- Serve as the primary contact for external parties regarding executed documents.
- Coordinate proof-of-insurance requests and maintain insurance records.
- Assist in producing reports and data extracts for business reviews and audits.
Stakeholder Coordination:
Interface professionally with:
- Internal Commercial & Legal teams.
- Project Leads.
- Directors and authorised signatories.
- External clients, consultants, and legal advisers.
- Ensure correct routing of approvals and maintain clear audit trails.
What We Are Looking For:
- Proven experience in contract administration and document control.
- Exceptional attention to detail and strong governance discipline.
- Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders and external clients.
- Experience working with international consultancy contracts and varying jurisdictions.
- Ability to manage a high volume of contracts concurrently in a fast-paced environment.
- A positive, approachable and solutions‑focused attitude.
Why Join Buro Happold?
At Buro Happold, we believe in creating a better, more sustainable world. You’ll be part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We offer a supportive environment where your contributions make a real difference.
What we offer you
Bring your knowledge and expertise to one of the world's most respected consultancies.
- Hybrid working arrangements
- Attractive salary
- Discretionary bonus
- Holiday entitlement of 25 days per annum (exclusive of bank holidays) and flexible holiday arrangements
- Generous company pension scheme, life assurance and income protection
- Flexible benefits including cycle scheme, dental insurance, optical cover, travel insurance, season ticket loans, and corporate discounts
- Enhanced parenthood leave policies
- A strong commitment to continuous development. Whatever stage in your career, we have a learning and development programme that will enable and empower you
- Entitlement to two memberships to professional bodies or subscriptions
- A commitment to your wellbeing through a comprehensive employee assistance programme and wellbeing activities
- An opportunity to support your local community and those in society that are most in need, wherever they are located in the world through our Share Our Skills (SOS) programme
- A supportive and inclusive environment that will welcome you through social and outreach activities from the Young Employees Forum to mentoring
- An international culture that wherever your career takes you at Buro Happold, you won't be far from exceptional.
Apply now and be where exceptional is everywhere.
A place for everyone
Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of the way you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment and are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing difference allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. #LI-TG1