Senior Contract Manager

Thales; Templecombe; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Senior Contracts Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in managing bids and projects that impact millions. This position offers a unique opportunity to work within a highly regarded team, focusing on commercial issues and negotiations. You will be responsible for providing strategic advice and recommendations, ensuring successful outcomes in a dynamic environment. With a hybrid working arrangement, you can enjoy the flexibility of working from home while contributing to significant projects in the defense and engineering sectors. This role is perfect for someone with a strong commercial background looking to make a real difference.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus

Half day every Friday

28 days annual leave

24 hours volunteering paid

Life cover

Employee Assistance Program

Employee discount shopping schemes

Qualifications

• Experience managing contracts and risks in a complex organization.
• Ability to provide commercial advice on bids and projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage commercial propositions and negotiations for bids.
• Provide advice on contractual agreements and changes.

Skills

Contract Management

Risk Management

Commercial Negotiation

Analytical Skills

Relationship Management

Education

LLB

Engineering

Finance

Job description

Thales Templecombe, England, United Kingdom

Senior Contract Manager

Thales Templecombe, England, United Kingdom

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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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