Principal Commercial Officer

7 days ago


BarrowinFurness, Cumbria, United Kingdom BAE Systems Full time

Job title: Principal Commercial Officer

Location: Barrow-In-Furness

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £43,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

  • Provision of contract management support including contract administration, managing change, contract configuration and contract closure
  • Reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and finalising contracts and commercial agreements with customers and suppliers
  • Customer relationship management; applying a high degree of customer focus, developing and maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
  • Managing, developing and mentoring junior members of the team

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience of drafting, writing and negotiating contracts
  • Demonstrable client/customer relationship management; ability to forge strong working relationships

Desirable:

  • Knowledge of terms and conditions, types of contracts, commercial risks and opportunities
  • Experience of managing others

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Commercial Team

As a member of the Commercial Team, you will work cross functionally and with the customer. Your primary role will be to support the contacts preparations negotiation, bidding, writing and drafting, configuring and managing of contacts. These consist of multi-function teams, such as Project Management, Engineering, Technical Specialist, and Supply Chain.

Career Development is fully supported within the team, with the opportunity to move up to management level along with skillset development through further education and recognised training to facilitate lateral moves within the wider BAE business.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 1st January 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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