Senior Export Contract Manager

Our client has an opportunity for a Senior Export Contract Manager to join them on a contract basis for an initial 12-months, with potential for extension.

Reporting to the Export Contract Management UK Executive, the successful candidate 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
Location: Ideally Stevenage, however Bristol will also be considered. Hybrid once trained – 3 days onsite.
Hours: 37 per week
Clearance: BPSS required to start, full SC to follow
Hourly Rate: Between £70-£80ph via Umbrella, inside IR35

Travel will be required to UK and Europe sites

What you’ll be doing:

• 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

Requirements:

• Leadership, influencing and relationship management skills required to establish and maintain strong internal and external relationships.
• Senior line manager experience and Commercial contracts delivery
• 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;
• 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..

If you are interested in applying for this position and you meet the requirements, please apply!

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