Thales Templecombe, England, United Kingdom
Senior Contract Manager
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Job title: Senior Contracts Manager
Location: Templecombe (Somerset), Belfast (Northern Ireland), or Crawley (West Sussex) - hybrid working arrangement – 3 days a week in the office
Are you looking for your next challenge where you’ll have the opportunity to work within a highly regarded team where you will be responsible for proactively managing and directly influencing our bids and projects? Would you like to work for a world-renowned organisation that researches, develops and supplies technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better and keep us safer? Then look no further…
We have a great Senior Contracts Manager opportunity to join our Defence Commercial, Legal & Contracts team.
Core Benefits:
On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;
* Performance-related bonus
* Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00pm
* 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
* 24 hours volunteering paid for
* Life cover
* 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
* Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
Key responsibilities:
On a day-to-day basis you’ll be involved in:
* Providing advice and recommendations to the business relationship agreements, bids and projects under their remit on commercial issues, risks, liabilities and opportunities
* Commercial proposition development for major win-business campaigns.
* Supporting senior management and where required participate in commercial negotiations with customer, consortium partners and in conjunction with Procurement, sub-contractors and other 3rd parties.
* Providing bid and project teams advice, recommendations and costings pertaining to UK and International contracts in relation to Direct Selling Costs, including but not limited to Credit Insurance, Bank Guarantees and Letter of Credits.
* Responding to and negotiating customers proposed contractual agreements and Contract ‘Changes’ and support senior management in the management of such changes, including the preparation, approval and negotiation.
* Identifying and managing issues and disputes arising with customers in conjunction with the Legal function.
About you:
Ideally, you’ll:
* Have a commercial background with experience of managing contracts/risks and/or a legal background combined with commercial experience.
* Have demonstrable experience working within in a complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-site organisation.
* Possess multi-disciplinary qualifications e.g. LLB, Engineering, Finance, Programme Delivery – advantageous.
* Be adept at building and managing relationships across all levels and throughout the identify, bidding, negotiation and delivery phases of bids/projects
* Have proven analytical and written skills and the ability to understand pricing, risks and mitigation of contracts.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Project Management and Legal
* Industries
Engineering Services and Defense and Space Manufacturing
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