Graduate Contracts Associate

L3Harris; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris is seeking a Graduate for the Global Contracts and Industrialisation team in Farnborough. The role focuses on understanding customer requirements, formulating proposals, and negotiating agreements within the defense industry. Applicants should possess robust analytical and presentation skills to contribute effectively to projects, while ensuring compliance with security requirements.

Benefits

25 days holiday per year

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme with employer contribution

Life Assurance

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• Recent graduate or equivalent experience.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to work on complex proposals.

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer requirements to establish business solutions.
• Negotiate customer proposals and capture outcomes.
• Contribute to project evaluations.

Skills

Ability to influence outcomes

Ability to digest information

Robust presentation skills

Time management across demands

Job description

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is the Trusted Disruptor in the defense industry. With customers’ mission-critical needs always in mind, our employees deliver end-to-end technology solutions connecting the space, air, land, sea and cyber domains in the interest of national security.

Job Title – GRADUATE GLOBAL CONTRACTS AND IDUSTRIALISATION

Job Location – FARNBOROUGH

Job ID – 24478

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 11 UK sites, our team of nearly 1,000 people delivers unique capabilities across space, air, land, sea and cyber for military, security and commercial customers across the UK and worldwide.

L3Harris in Farnborough engineer and maintain Night Vision Goggles, Precision Approach Radar systems, and Tactical Radios. Notably, we are the proud designer, supplier and maintainer of the 50,000 tactical radios in the Bowman tactical C4I system in service with the UK Armed Forces and are working to define and deliver the next generation system, Morpheus.

This opportunity is to join the Communications segment global contracts and industrialisation function, covering Europe.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support
• Professional membership reimbursement (discretionary)

What the role will involve

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

• Understanding and analysis of Customer requirements, to establish business solutions in response
• Formulating and preparing Customer proposals and responses
• Negotiating with Customers and capturing outcomes in formal Agreements
• Contributing to projects
• Appraising colleagues on contractual risk and opportunities
• Socialising and gaining permission to commercial propositions

What you’ll bring

The role requires the following experience and skills:

• Ability to influence outcomes
• Ability to digest information from detail through to strategy
• Ability to articulate complicated various situations, varying in complexity, from straightforward to intricate and all in between
• Robust presentation skills and ability to communicate articulately
• To manage time across multiple demands

Important to know

Due to the nature of our work many our roles require a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

L3Harris Technologies is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.