Guidant Global | Senior Export Contract Manager | stevenage

6 days ago

Stevenage Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Guidant Global Full time

Our client, a leader in Missile and Defence and the UK's trusted partner to the Ministry of Defence, is seeking an experienced Senior Export Contract Manager. The successful candidate will report to the Export Contract Management UK Executive and will possess a comprehensive and profound set of commercial, financial, and project management skills to lead and deliver complex and strategically significant export contracts..

As a Senior Export Contract Manager, the successful candidate will join the Programmes Export Operations Directorate, bringing their expertise and experience as an accomplished Export Contract Manager.

What we're looking for:

  • Exceptional leadership, influencing, and relationship management skills to establish and maintain strong internal and external relationships.
  • Proven ability to define, communicate, and implement strategic intent, with extensive experience operating in complex political environments.
  • An experienced manager with a proven track record of leading contract delivery through both the bid and execution phases, ideally within an international environment.
  • You will need a high degree of self-motivation and drive, with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Effective interpersonal and communication skills, along with an open, confident, and clear leadership style, are essential.
  • Experience in people management and leading internal and external stakeholder relationships in a leadership role.
  • Be prepared for international travel with an open mind to embrace different cultures.
  • Experience in preparing and authorizing 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.

What you'll get to do as a Senior Export Contract Manager:

As a Senior Export Contract Manager, the successful candidate will lead the commercial interface with international government and military customers for contract delivery up to the 1* level. They will manage multiple cross-domain and geographically diverse contracts, ensuring customer satisfaction and fostering strong relationships. The role involves resolving contract delivery issues through risk and opportunity management, leading customer acceptance events, managing transport delivery solutions, and capturing contractual payments. Additionally, the candidate will handle communications with customers, government and industrial partners, and internally within the company. They will lead contract amendment negotiations and support Sales & Business Development in acquiring new international business. The candidate will also collaborate with the client's national companies (NATCO) in France, Spain, and Italy to deliver Inter Company Trading export contracts.

Security Clearance:

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by our clients Security Team.

More about the role:

For more than 70 years, our client has been in a strong partnership with the UK military. They have accomplished numerous milestones in defence engineering and have provided essential defence capabilities to meet the requirements of the armed forces across land, sea, and air.

This role is based at their headquarters site in Stevenage which plays a key part in missiles operations. The site also offers excellent transportation links and boasts an onsite gym and coffee shop. Training and development are offered to all employees.

Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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