Senior Legal & Contracts Manager

Loft Orbital Solutions
Abu Dhabi
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Negotiation","Collaboration","Risk management","Influence"]

The Senior Contracts Manager will lead and manage all contractual activities at Orbitworks, focusing on complex, high-value procurements and customer agreements. They will own contract strategy across the business, define commercial standards and negotiation frameworks, collaborate with Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Supply Chain, and manage risk to ensure compliant, favorable terms in a technically driven space environment.

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Loft Orbital Solutions
Loft Orbital Solutions
6 months ago

Senior Legal & Contracts Manager

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Job Summary

The Senior Contracts Manager will lead and manage all contractual activities at Orbitworks, focusing on complex, high-value procurements and customer agreements. They will own contract strategy across the business, define commercial standards and negotiation frameworks, collaborate with Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Supply Chain, and manage risk to ensure compliant, favorable terms in a technically driven space environment.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the full lifecycle of contracts, including drafting, negotiating, execution, and amendments.
  • •Develop and standardize contract templates, playbooks, and baseline commercial positions.
  • •Lead negotiations for complex, high-value procurements (e.g., satellite buses, subsystems, payloads, launch services, ground station services).
  • •Partner with Engineering to ensure technical scope and specifications are clearly defined.
  • •Structure and negotiate customer agreements for hardware and services.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience in contract management within the space industry or similarly complex, technical industries.
  • •Proven experience negotiating large, custom, multi-million dollar procurements and customer contracts.
  • •Strong understanding of satellite systems or related space technologies.
  • •Demonstrated ability to collaborate with engineering teams on technical scope.
  • •Solid working knowledge of contract law principles.
Experience:10+ yearsSpaceAerospace
Skills:CommunicationNegotiationCollaborationRisk managementInfluence

Company Brief

Loft Orbital Solutions
Provides satellite rideshare and mission integration services, offering turnkey spacecraft platforms, payload hosting, and mission operations to accelerate deployment of space-based payloads for commercial and government customers.
Industry: Space Technology
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Long Beach, United States
Founded: 2017
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