Customer Contracts Manager

Reading, Berkshire
AWE

We are recruiting for a customer facing Customer Contracts / Commercial Manager to provide commercial and contractual support to a diverse portfolio of projects from initial opportunity identification through to contract completion.

It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?

Location – Reading / Basingstoke Area

Salary – up to 60,000

AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

• Market leading contributory pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement (270 hours a year including bank holidays, plus every other Friday off)
• Flexible working hours
• Salary sacrifice scheme
• Consideration for either full time or part time hours. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time
• Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)

Key Accountabilities:

• Maintaining and developing effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
• Demonstrating general commercial acumen on negotiations and contracts which are typically non-standard or medium to high complexity;
• Conducting assessments on the viability of internal and external opportunities;
• Adherence to Customer Contracts and wider AWE processes and governance;
• Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provision of clear guidance and expertise to the business on contractual requirements;
• Ensuring bids comply with regulatory, governance and legislative matters;
• Review and negotiate customer facing agreements such as framework contracts, collaboration agreements, MOUs and NDAs;
• Seeking opportunities to simplify Customer Contracts procedures and ways of working;
• Being actively involved with understanding, mitigating and managing Customer Contract risks and opportunities.

Whilst not to be considered a check list, candidates should be able to demonstrate some of the following:

• Experience in different contracting models, with the ability to apply relevant pricing methods to minimise risk and maximise value for money;
• Significant experience in a Government contracting environment;
• Highly developed communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence at all levels;
• Effective relationship management at all levels with key internal and external customers and stakeholders;
• Good facilitation, presentation, leadership and interpersonal skills;
• Excellent organisational and analytical skills and effectiveness to manage priorities in a multi task role delivering to challenging timescales;
• Ability to make sound decisions and to challenge;
• Well-developed skills in the use of a variety of computerised business software to support business needs;
• Ability to identify, use and monitor the key controls to manage performance and ensure the effective monitoring and application of controls and exception reporting;
• Experience of stakeholder management and relationship.

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role