Customer Contracts

4 weeks ago

Reading, United Kingdom AWE Full time
What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?

For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK s ultimate deterrent - Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.

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

We are recruiting for a C ustomer Contracts / Commercial Manager to join the Customer Contracts - Governance & Operations Team. The Governance & Operations Team provides expertise in Trade & Export Controls, Intellectual Property Management, maintains AWEs Insurance Portfolio, develops Customer Contracts governance, and provides the tools, procedures and resources used by the wider Customer Contracts Function. This specific role focuses on governance and assuring AWEs compliance against Customer Contracts policies, licences, and agreements such as Confidentiality Agreements.

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

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:
  • Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
  • Consideration for flexible working arrangements so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time
  • Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
  • Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
  • A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
  • Life Assurance
  • Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending
  • Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family
  • A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site


Key Accountabilities:
  • Maintaining and developing effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
  • Providing advice and guidance to the wider AWE on customer facing agreements such as NDAs or collaboration agreements;
  • Assuring compliance against Customer Contracts policy, licences, and agreements; and
  • Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.


Key Responsibilities:
  • Seeking opportunities to simplify Customer Contracts procedures and ways of working;
  • Defining and implementing internal and external best practice within Customer Contracts processes, and ways of working;
  • Develop appropriate processes and contractual templates to support internal and external stakeholders;
  • Review and negotiate customer facing agreements such as collaboration agreements, MOUs and NDAs;
  • 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;
  • Experience in a Government contracting environment;
  • Highly developed communication 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.


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

Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.

Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants. Any inclusion information you provide us will be used to encourage and support you through the application process and will be held only for this purpose in accordance with GDPR.

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