
Senior Commercial Manager
- Harlow, Essex
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Significant experience in a commercial or contracts role, delivering services and products within a highly regulated industry.
- Related commercial / legal degree or equivalent qualification.
- Working in collaborative environments dealing with complex issues.
- Managing and delivering medium (£25m) and high (£200m+) value contracts.
- Dealing with Customers from different global locations and cultures including the UK Ministry of Defence.
- Understanding and ability to work within the requirements of the Defence Reform Act
- Knowledge of US FAR/DFAR compliance and applicability together with a good working knowledge of ITAR and EAR export challenges.
- Delivering multiple different types of agreement.
- Able to work within various locations as required, leading geographically dispersed, diverse teams with flexible working arrangements.
- Dispute resolution experience gained within long term agile contracts.
- Good experience of managing and capturing change through contractual mechanisms.
- Staff management and development with strong coaching and mentoring skills.
- Able to deputise for the Associate Contracts Director on an Ad-Hoc basis
- A well organised and self-motivated individual
- Relevant years of managing a team of professionals at varying skill levels.
- A strong diversity, equity and inclusion mind-set with business ethics as a guiding principle.
- Good at building trust and communication with other team members and internal and external stakeholders.
- Inspiring others to the point that others are motivated to follow.
- Making decisions with confidence, encouraging innovation by looking at what is possible whilst asking the right questions and observing.
- Experience of working in different country cultures with an ability to establish and nurture customer relationships
- Energy and Drive - willing to travel extensively within the UK and internationally
- A thorough understanding of the customer (UK MoD and other agencies, Foreign Governments and Military) and a background in Defence or Intelligence.
- Leading the wider commercial elements of small, medium, and large contracts together with the creation and management of teaming strategies.
- Responsible for the creation and delivery of the Mission Area Commercial strategy.
- Managing contractual issues and positions with clearly understood risk and opportunity boundaries, interfacing with internal and external legal counsel.
- Influencing internal and external stakeholders with both cross functional communication and senior management briefing into the relevant US business areas at executive levels.
- Able to create, reviewing, negotiate complex contractual documents that align with the business governance.
- Problem solving and dispute resolution.
- Customer relationship management including working in an ISO 44001 (previously BS 11000) environment.
- Ensuring that corporate governance is understood and followed including managing internal Gating processes.
- Active work force planning to meet bid and contract negotiation requirements.
- Responsible for all Contracts new business activities within the Mission Area.