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Commercial Officer

3 weeks ago


Cheltenham, United Kingdom Optamor Full time

**Commercial Officer**

**Cheltenham or New Malden (Hybrid Working)**

**Defence sector**

The Commercial Officer is responsible for the day to day commercial and contracts management activities on specific multi-million pound contracts supporting NGUK's Defence & National Security customers, as well as supporting the wider Commercial team onother existing contracts and proposals for programmes spanning multiple sectors, including those within Maritime, Aerospace and Cyber.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Commercial point of contact for existing key multi-million pound contracts predominantly supporting NG's Defence & National Security customers, including influencing key stakeholders on various Commercial topics
- Understand the impact of changes to existing contractual terms and conditions and lead programme teams in ensuring such change is accounted for in priced proposals
- Refine and agree confidentiality and collaboration/teaming agreements
- Review tenders and RFQs to identify key commercial aspects and evaluation criteria
- Prepare and negotiate on contracts terms, licence terms, scope and pricing, recognising the risk trade-off, working closely with the relevant Programme Manager, Business Development Manager, Finance Team and Supply Chain Lead and working within approvals
- Support the wider Commercial team with higher value, complexity and strategically significant proposals and negotiations
- Develop the business' negotiation strategy
- Review Statements of Work and tender responses
- Support the ongoing development of the commercial risk review and support approvals process through the bid and programme lifecycle
- Engage with and support the legal review of contract terms and conditions
- Responsible for issuing Requests for Proposal/Quotation and assessing commercial proposals from suppliers and sub-contractors
- Monitor Contracts and Sub-contracts, Service agreements and licences to ensure that all parties adhere to the conditions
- Liaise with trade controls/export management personnel to develop and maintain the necessary export/import licences for products and services
- Be a pro-active member of the wider Northrop Grumman Contracts and Pricing function
- Advise and guide Project Managers on commercial and contractual matters
- Provide inputs as necessary for internal reports
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with corporate governance & policy on contracts and associated areas

**General Operational duties**
- Attend Business Management department meetings as required
- Remain compliant with all applicable Business Management and Command Media Processes and procedures
- Understand and conform to Northrop Grumman's ethical policies, Standards of Business Conduct and quality management policies and procedures
- Support the Contracts Manager and Head of Contracts in developing and growing a professional and engaged team

**Person Specification**

Essential Qualifications/Experience
- Degree in Law, Business or Economics or experience of contracts management in a Defence/business/IT/engineering environment
- Demonstrable experience of proposal work and review on medium to large scale captures
- Track record of building strong customer relationships
- Demonstrable success in creating and executing negotiating strategies and supporting business decision making desired
- Experience of process development

**Competency/Skill requirements**
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communicator, able to effectively engage with a wide range of stakeholders and customers at all levels whilst planning, executing and co-ordinating bid work, negotiations and active contract management
- Fluent in written and spoken English
- Proficient IT skills - office automation and project tools
- Sound understanding of contract law and standard terms
- Working knowledge of contracts, terms and conditions used by UK MOD/UK government
- Good awareness of UK/US export regulations
- Strong negotiation skills
- Strong Customer Relationship Management skills
- Flexible and adaptable, with an engaging 'can do' attitude
- A proactive team-worker, able to also work independently
- Excellent organisational skills
- Adept at dealing effectively with competing priorities and deadlines, and able to handle multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
- Competent in PowerPoint and face-to-face presentation delivery

**Other requirements**
- Travel requirements: UK travel required to attend team/customer meetings and training activities. Occasional international travel may be required. Valid UK driving licence and passport.
- Clearance requirements: The post-holder must hold and maintain UK Government clearances