Senior Commercial and Contracts Manager

CAE Inc; Burgess Hill; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Commercial/Contracts Manager to provide essential contractual and commercial support. This pivotal role involves engaging with customers, managing contract negotiations, and ensuring compliance with corporate policies. The ideal candidate will bring over 8 years of experience in a commercial field, strong negotiation skills, and a solid understanding of contract law. This position offers a dynamic work environment where your contributions directly impact business success. If you thrive in high-pressure situations and possess excellent communication skills, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 8+ years experience in a commercial or business-related field.
• Basic knowledge of contract law and UK MoD terms is essential.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a contact for customers on contractual matters.
• Review customer contracts and provide CAE's position.
• Participate in contract negotiations and maintain records.

Skills

Contract Law Knowledge

Business Acumen

Negotiation Skills

Organizational Skills

Communication Skills

Presentation Skills

Ability to Work Under Pressure

Data Protection Legislation Knowledge

Education

8+ years in Commercial/Business Field

Tools

MS Outlook

MS Excel

MS Word

MS Project

Job description

About This Role

About us

CAE’s Defense & Security business unit is a globally recognized training and mission systems integrator. As a high technology company, we are at the leading edge of digital innovation providing training and mission support solutions across multi-domain operations – air, land, maritime, space and cyber. We are committed to being our customer’s partner of choice to help elevate safety, efficiency and readiness so that our customers can achieve their best performance.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Senior Commercial / Contracts manager to act as contractual and commercial support in bidding for & managing contracts and providing commercially reasonable contractual solutions in conjunction with and support of the Defence and Security Strategy & Business Development and Programmes teams within the CAE EMEA region.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a focal point of contact for customers (external and internal) regarding contractual matters by establishing good customer relationship and communications.
• Perform review of customer proposed contractual agreements (NDAs, Teaming Agreements, TAAs, Contracts etc.) and provide CAE position as required in close conjunction with CAE legal counsel.
• Proactive participation in business winning Bid Teams, including:
• Generating the Commercial Response to Customer RFPs in accordance with the agreed strategy, relevant input from other disciplines (e.g. prices; payment plan from Finance/Pricing; IP, LDs and liability from CAE legal) and Customer requirements;
• Assisting Bids and Proposals Manager to generate Proposal Documentation (Commercial Volume, Risk and Opportunities Registers, Compliance Matrices etc.) matched to Customer requirements;
• Undertaking a commercial/contractual review of the full suite of proposal documents provided by Bids and Proposals Manager;
• Support the development and implementation of the negotiation strategy;
• Participation in contract negotiations with Customers to fulfil business requirements in support of Sales/Business Development Lead and / or Programme Manager.
• In close conjunction with CAE legal counsel, prepare and negotiate contracts and amendments to existing contracts and arrange for their approval.
• Provide guidance on compliance to terms and conditions of customer contracts, identify the appropriate flow down of such terms and conditions to potential subcontractors.
• Assist the Programme Management function by supporting subcontract negotiations as required.
• Identification of potential contractual liabilities, risks, issues and disputes, arising with customers, suppliers, partners and third parties, and report to CAE legal accordingly and jointly produce mitigation plans.
• Maintain contractual records, documentation of key correspondence, status and issue reports etc.
• Support in ensuring compliance with all relevant Corporate Policies and Procedures relevant to bidding for and managing contracts.
• Any other duties as may be required.

About you

• At least 8 years experience in a commercial, marketing or business-related field is essential.
• Basic knowledge of contract law and UK MoD terms and conditions e.g. DEFCONS and public procurement.
• Strong business acumen.
• Good organisational and co-ordination skills.
• Effective communication and presentation skills.
• Strong negotiating skills.
• Knowledge of data protection legislation is desirable.
• Able to work under pressure as an integral member of bid/project teams and capacity to meet project deadlines.
• Good PC skills (MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Project, etc).

Worth noting

• Ideally you will be within a reasonable commute of Burgess Hill as this site will be somewhere you would need to be 2-3 days per week.
• Some activities will require travel to other CAE and Customer sites in the UK and overseas, which could be at short notice.
• Must be able to obtain or transfer Security Clearance which the Company sponsors (applicants must have lived continuously in the UK for the past 5 years in order to obtain security clearance) or currently holds NATO SC level Security Clearance that can be transferred from overseas to the UK.

** Strictly No Agencies**

Position Type

Regular

CAE thanks all applicants for their interest. However, only those whose background and experience match the requirements of the role will be contacted.

Equal Opportunity Employer

CAE is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, nationality, colour, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, veteran status, age, or other characteristics protected by local laws.

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