Date Posted: 2026-06-12 | Country: United Kingdom | Location: Harlow, Essex | Role Type: Hybrid
This hybrid role supports our operations in Glenrothes, Harlow and Livingston. Team members typically attend their home site once or twice per week and are expected to travel to other sites occasionally.
Benefits
* Competitive salary
* Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
* Life Assurance with pension (6 times salary)
* 25 days holiday plus statutory public holidays, with option to buy/sell up to 5 days (37hr)
* Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
* Flexible benefits scheme: salary sacrifice, health cashplan, dental, cycle-to-work, etc.
* Enhanced sick pay
* Family-friendly policies: enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave
Responsibilities
* Provide full contractual and commercial support to development, approval and issuance of bids and proposals, whether in response to RFP/ITN etc or as part of the company strategy.
* Identify any commercial risk, provide input to the overall risk plan and implement effective risk mitigation.
* Lead in the negotiation of contracts.
* Manage new and existing contracts effectively, including all contract change control and support to the other functions, including contract flow-downs.
* Resolve all commercial issues promptly and effectively.
* Manage the financial aspects of the contract, including forecasting and milestone plans (including timely claim submission).
* Be the commercial face of the organisation to the customer, as the day-to-day contact and subject matter expert.
* Assure the successful completion, closedown and archive of contracts.
* Be the champion of change and improvement.
Essential qualifications
* Relevant degree or equivalent experience.
* Experience in reviewing and drafting contractual documents.
* Strong commercial awareness, business principles and governing law.
* Experience of commercial risk management.
* Ability to respond to tasks with tenacity and flexibility, whilst working cross-functionally in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Strong communicator and relationship builder with both internal and external customers.
* Ability to remain calm under pressure and collaborate with others.
* Positive, self-motivated and the ability to work independently.
* A willingness and ability to travel occasionally.
Desirable qualifications
* Previous experience of contracting in the Defence sector.
* Accreditation in Commercial and Supply Chain management.
* Eligible to obtain security clearance (SC) beyond baseline personnel security standard (BPSS).
* Basic programme management skill set – Risk Management/Programme Gating/ Metrics.
* Strong record of problem solving and dispute resolution.
* Experience of working with international suppliers or customers.
* Experience of Financial Management.
* Awareness of Data Protection and other relevant commercial and contract legislation.
* Familiarity with business process management tools (IPDS, SAP or similar) and the competitive bidding process.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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