Aerospace Contracts Specialist

4 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom GKN Aerospace Full time

Transform Your Career with GKN Aerospace

GKN Aerospace is a leading innovator in the aerospace industry, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. We're seeking a highly skilled Commercial Officer to join our team and contribute to our mission of reimagining air travel.

About the Role

The Commercial Officer will provide commercial expertise and support to our customer-facing teams, ensuring the effective management and resolution of commercial issues on a day-to-day basis. This includes commercial change management, supporting local level bids and proposals, and informing program IPTs of contractual obligations and boundaries.

Key Responsibilities

  • Interface and highlight contractual obligations and limits to obligations to IPTs and customers.
  • Support new bidding activity, including the compilation of a business model and commercial proposal.
  • Manage and maintain the company order book to reflect customer purchase order requirements.
  • Ensure commercial/contractual correspondence files are maintained.
  • Maintain key performance metrics and contribute to internal reporting requirements.
  • Support change negotiations with customers.
  • Ensure overdue debt is kept to a minimum and customers pay in accordance with agreed payment terms.
  • Support project/program review structure, reports, data, and review customer MRP and conclude on demand changes, check against contractual conditions, and update demand as part of MPS.
  • Manage opportunities to improve the business case.
  • Adhere to all program management and commercial standards and policies in accordance with the GKN Aerospace Program Management framework and contribute to process development.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or 5+ years of experience in customer-facing contracts roles within a manufacturing environment.
  • 2+ years of experience in customer-facing contracts roles within a manufacturing environment, preferably aerospace.
  • Must be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in aerospace highly preferred.
  • Must be able to perform work subject to FAR regulations and/or program requirements.
  • Must have demonstrated organizational skills, good customer relations skills, ability to multitask, and a demonstrated team player.
  • Ability to read, analyze, interpret contracts, comparison of contracts to purchase orders, and ability to recognize potential problem areas.
  • Strong working knowledge of MS Office Suite (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel).
  • Project management experience running multi-disciplinary teams under challenging time constraints.
  • High attention to detail and accuracy and structured way of working.
  • Highly self-motivated and self-supportive.
  • Experience with aerospace and/or aircraft machined and assembled components.
  • Basic understanding of accounting.
  • Ability to compile an executive presentation and present to a group of people.
  • Intermediate Excel experience and working knowledge.
  • Proven experience with customer interface and communication.

About GKN Aerospace

GKN Aerospace is a leading innovator in the aerospace industry, pushing the boundaries of what's possible. We're proud to play a part in protecting the world's democracies and committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries, we serve over 90% of the world's aircraft and engine manufacturers and achieved sales of £3.35 bn in 2023.

Join Our Team

We're committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process, please get in touch and let us know. We're an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

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