- Leading the contract and commercial day to day interactions with international Customers, ensuring good customer relationships and satisfaction for UK export contracts.
- Managing communications with the business and externally with industrial partners.
- Anticipate and proactively resolving issues and concerns in order to fulfil the contractual commitments and obtaining customers' acceptance and payment for the deliverables.
- Ensuring the business interests are safeguarded by on time export contract schedule adherence and robust mitigation of risk.
- Supporting Sales & Business Development in the acquisition of new business.
- You are an experienced Contract Manager who has led contract delivery in both the bid and execution phases, ideally with an international client base.
- You will need to have a high degree of self-motivation and drive with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- You will have effective interpersonal and communications skills and an open, confident and clear leadership style.
- Experience of people management in a leadership role as well as experience leading internal and external stakeholder relationships.
- Be prepared for international travel with an open mind to embrace different cultures!
- Experience of preparing and authorising Bid submissions, ideally with exposure in the role of Business Bid Authority.
- Proven experience of interfacing with Corporate functions such as finance, customer support, export control, project management, quality, shipping & engineering.