Senior Export Contract Manager

On behalf of our client, we are seeking to recruit a Senior Export Contract Manager on an initial 12 -month contract. As the Senior Export Contract Manager you will demonstrate a broad and deep set of commercial, financial and project management skills to lead and deliver complex and strategically important export contracts.

Role: Senior Export Contract Manager
Pay: Up to £80 per hour Via Umbrella
Location: Stevenage
Contract: Monday – Friday 37 hours per week, 12 months
IR35 Status: Inside
Security Clearance: SC required however can start on BPSS

Responsibilities

* Lead the commercial interface into international government and military customers for contract delivery
* Handle multiple cross domain and geographically diverse contracts simultaneously
* Deliver the contract schedule to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction whilst fostering strong and long standing customer relationships
* Anticipate and proactively resolve contract delivery issues and concerns through risk and opportunity management that protects the business interests and international reputation
* Lead customer acceptance events, transport delivery solutions and capture contractual payments.
* Handle coherent and consistent communications into the customer, into government and industrial partners as well as internally.
* Lead contract amendment negotiations as well as supporting Sales & Business Development to acquire new international business from current and new customers.
* Collaborate with national companies (NATCO) in France, Spain and Italy to deliver Inter Company Trading export contracts

Essential Skills:

* Experience of working in large complex organisations (preferably multi-national) with experience of collaborating with Corporate Functions; new business; finance; legal; customer support; export control; project management; quality; shipping; engineering; corporate compliance.
* Leadership, influencing and relationship management skills required to establish and maintain strong internal and external relationships.
* Ability to define, communicate and implement strategic intent with experience of operating in complex political environments
* You are an experienced manager who has led contract delivery in both the bid and execution phases, ideally within an international environment
* You will need to have a high degree of self-motivation and drive with the ability work independently and as part of a team.
* You will have effective interpersonal and communications skills and an open, confident and clear leadership style.
* Experience of people management in a leadership role as well as experience leading internal and external stakeholder relationships.
* Be prepared for international travel with an open mind to embrace different cultures.
* Experience of preparing and authorising Bid submissions, ideally with exposure in the role of Business Bid Authority;

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please send your updated CV to: Natalie Dalkin at Line Up Aviation

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