Senior Contracts Officer

Overview:
Spirit AeroSystems designs and builds aerostructures for both commercial and defense customers. With headquarters in Wichita, Kansas, Spirit operates sites in the U.S., U.K., France and Malaysia. The company's core products include fuselages, pylons, nacelles and wing components for the world's premier aircraft. Spirit AeroSystems focuses on affordable, innovative composite and aluminum manufacturing solutions to support customers around the globe.

**Role Purpose**

**Senior Contracts Officer**

This opportunity, based at our **Prestwick** site offers:

- 37 hour working week (half day Friday)
- Shift premiums up to 33%, where applicable
- Overtime at time and a half, where applicable
- 33 days holiday per year, rising with service
- Annual Bonus related to company performance
- Defined contribution pension scheme (default contributions; 4% employee and 8% employer)
- Virtual GP Service 365 days per year
- Employee Assistance Program
- A wide range of flexible benefits
- Death in service payment (default 4 times basic salary)
- Professional development and growth
- Free car parking
- And more

**Responsibilities**:

- Submission of commercial claims, customer reports and pricing analysis.
- Designated contact lead for specific customers managing communication, correspondence and purchase orders.
- Participate in senior level internal meetings representing Customer Contracts to ensure commercial awareness and assistance in resolution of customer issues.
- Commercial management of the Business Change processes.
- Negotiation and agreement with the customer of price impacts associated with the contract change process.
- Primary interface between our customers and all internal business functions to ensure commercial issues are addressed on a timely basis in support of business needs.
- Contractual support/ conscience to the business.
- Contract creation and maintenance in SAP in compliance with commercial procedures and controls to ensure validity of sales pricing.
- Negotiation of customer purchase orders and creation of sales orders on SAP for all non-recurring business activity in accordance with PO terms and conditions.
- Interpretation of cost data and rationale in preparation of commercial claims prior to submission and negotiation.
- Analysis and negotiation of customer claims to agree commercial liability and cost resolution.
- Creation of proposals with routing for signature in line with business processes and procedures.
- Certification of Claims and Assertions in line with business processes and procedures.
- Review, draft and negotiate commercial contracts.
- Development of effective working relationships with our customers.
- Management of due dates and deliverables.
- Management of commercial reviews with customers and leadership on designated commercial tasks.
- Submit and negotiate customer claims.

Qualifications:
**Knowledge, Skills and Experience**
- Degree or equivalent qualifications and experience preferred
- Experienced in contract management and customer negotiations
- Experienced in communicating both written and orally internally within the business and externally with customers
- Ability to manage complex tasks, small projects and resources
- Ability to manage due dates
- Well developed IT skills, SAP system competency preferred Working knowledge of Contract Terms and Conditions Good financial judgement
- Skilled at relationship management
- Developed planning and organisational skills
- Project and stakeholder management skills

**Closing Date; 16th April at 4pm**

Spirit AeroSystems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law.