Senior Contracts Manager

Thales; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Contracts Manager to join their Defence Commercial team. This role involves managing bids and projects, providing commercial advice, and negotiating contracts. The ideal candidate will have a strong commercial background and proven analytical skills. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement with competitive benefits.

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

• Commercial background with experience managing contracts/risks.
• Demonstrable experience in a complex, multi-disciplinary organization.

Responsibilities

• Providing advice on relationship agreements, bids, and projects.
• Supporting management in commercial negotiations with customers.
• Identifying and managing issues and disputes with customers.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Relationship Management

Negotiation

Education

LLB

Engineering

Finance

Programme Delivery

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Full Job Description

Job title: Senior Contracts Manager

Location: Crawley (West Sussex), Belfast (Northern Ireland), or Templecombe (Somerset) - 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 and 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 impacting the lives of millions of people daily 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:

OFFER is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes:

• Performance-related bonus
• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
• 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 regarding relationship agreements, bids, and projects on commercial issues, risks, liabilities, and opportunities
• Supporting senior management and participating in commercial negotiations with customers, consortium partners, and in conjunction with Procurement, sub-contractors, and other 3rd parties
• Providing bid and project teams advice, recommendations, and costings related to UK and International contracts, including Direct Selling Costs, Credit Insurance, Bank Guarantees, and Letters of Credit
• Responding to and negotiating customer-proposed contractual agreements and Contract Changes, supporting senior management in managing these changes, including preparation, approval, and negotiation
• Identifying and managing issues and disputes with customers in collaboration with the Legal function

About you:

Ideally, you’ll:

• Have a commercial background with experience managing contracts/risks and/or a legal background combined with commercial experience
• Have demonstrable experience working within a complex, multi-disciplinary, multi-site organization
• Possess multi-disciplinary qualifications e.g., LLB, Engineering, Finance, Programme Delivery – advantageous
• Be skilled at building and managing relationships across all levels throughout the bidding, negotiation, and delivery phases of bids/projects
• Have proven analytical and written skills with the ability to understand pricing, risks, and mitigation of contracts