Senior Contracts Specialist

6 months ago


Portsmouth, United Kingdom Raytheon UK Full time

**Job Title: Senior Contracts Specialist**

**Location(s): Must be willing to travel to Portsmouth occasionally. Can be based at any location**

**Summary of Role**:
Contracts professional able to manage a portfolio of contracts across multiple sub-business area within Raytheon UK, supporting the Cyber, Space and Training and/ or Weapons and Sensors business. The role requires the individual to be flexible and able to adapt to the needs of the business.

**Main Duties**:

- Preparation and briefing of Contract Management Plans and Strategies/Plans at business area and programme level.
- Post Contract Management of complex contracts
- Development of innovative contract solutions in support of responses to customer proposal requests (RFP/ITT/ITN’s etc )
- Provide support and input into PQQ’s
- Negotiates non-standard contracts/ agreements and changes
- Able to identify, interpret and advise strategy for dealing with terms and conditions
- Identifies and manages risk and opportunity, working collaboratively with Customers and other project team members
- Responsible for programme financial management associated with contract obligations
- Responsible for monitoring and reporting contract compliance and performance obligations
- Responsible for forecasting cash milestones and timely raising of invoices for payment
- Data management and maintaining formal records of contractual transactions and correspondence
- Functional representative at customer reviews providing the required contracts inputs
- Able to fully represent the function at all business level reviews (e.g, MRB’s, Programme reviews, Gate Reviews, etc ).
- Produces business cases/ briefing materials for senior management reviews
- Supports relationship management initiatives
- Ability to work on Defence, Commercial, Space, Training, Aerospace and Cyber related contracts.
- Undertakes proactive contracts management

**Essential**:

- Possess equivalent work experience. Your expertise speaks for itself.
- Sound understanding of UK MoD Terms and Conditions, government contracting or civil Commercial terms,
- Ability to work in a team environment
- Excellent verbal and written communications
- Can demonstrate a sound understanding of the contract management process
- Have experience working on a range of difference contracting types, such as Service Delivery, Development, Production, Time & Material, Fixed & Firm Price.
- Ability to think and act beyond contracts management/contracts bidding responsibilities
- Able to create a detailed flow down of terms and conditions for the Supply Chain to create the subcontract
- Strong task management skill set
- A good understanding of risk management, programme Gating and reporting metrics
- Experience and understanding of programme financial management
- Takes responsibility and follows through on tasks to ensure completion, understands and properly prioritises tasks, delivers quality products on schedule
- Participates in/ leads functional improvement activities
- Ability to lead contracts management activity and interventions when necessary

**Desirable**:

- Experience of working with suppliers
- Knowledge of Teaming Agreements and MoU’s
- Team leader experience
- Experience as Control Account Manager
- Experience working on Defence, Commercial, Space, Training, Aerospace and Cyber related contracts.
- Experience working on, Cost Plus, Agile, Concept Demonstrator/ Study type contracts.

**Salary**: £1.00-£2.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Childcare
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime
- Holidays
- No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus

Ability to Commute:

- null, PO2 8ER (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- null, PO2 8ER: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in null, PO2 8ER



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