Senior Contracts Manager

2 months ago


Cheadle, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom Thales Part time
Location: Cheadle, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Senior Contracts Manager

Cheadle

Would you like to be part of Thales UK's Maritime Mission Systems current and future projects? Do you enjoy managing and negotiating contracts and building relationships with customers and other key domestic and international stakeholders? Would you like to join a large, diverse team who will support your learning and development?

What the role has to offer:
  • Diverse and interesting workload, working on the Under Water Systems Portfolio contract and commercial negotiations
  • Working on projects and bids that are critical to UK growth.

Our Opportunity:

We have a great opportunity for someone who is looking for an opportunity to grow within the fastest growing business within Thales. Someone who can manage and work independently but also who enjoys working as part of a closely-knit, cross functional team.

Key tasks/Responsibilities:
  • Primarily supporting strategic bids and projects within the domain, the candidate will need a strong grasp of commercial management across the contract management lifecycle. This will include:
  • Executing the commercial strategy throughout the full business lifecycle.
  • Lead negotiations with clients
  • Putting in place appropriate commercial agreements with partners, suppliers and customers;
  • Actively managing the commercial management of opportunities, identifying and managing the associated commercial risks and liabilities, and negotiating contract terms;
  • Providing the commercial voice and expertise across multi-functional teams and providing support and guidance to the business.

About you:

The successful candidate will have experience of negotiating and managing large contracts, ideally in the maritime defence sector. You will have an understanding of general contract terms and conditions, the single-source environment in the UK and have the ability to interpret and communicate the key points to the team providing commercial recommendations.

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At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

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