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- Lead the commercial interface into international government and military customers for contract delivery on behalf of the organisation up to 1* level
- Handle multiple cross domain and geographically diverse contracts simultaneously
- Deliver the contract schedule to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction whilst fostering strong and long standing customer relationships
- Anticipate and proactively resolve contract delivery issues and concerns through risk and opportunity management that protects the organisations business interests and international reputation
- Lead customer acceptance events, transport delivery solutions and capture contractual payments.
- Handle coherent and consistent communications into the customer, into government and industrial partners as well as internally within the organisation
- Lead contract amendment negotiations as well as supporting Sales & Business Development to acquire new international business from current and new customers.
- Collaborate with the organisations national companies (NATCO) in France, Spain and Italy to deliver Inter Company Trading export contracts
- Leadership, influencing and relationship management skills required to establish and maintain strong internal and external relationships.
- Ability to define, communicate and implement strategic intent with experience of operating in complex political environments
- You are an experienced manager who has led contract delivery in both the bid and execution phases, ideally within an international environment
- You will need to have a high degree of self-motivation and drive with the ability 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;
- Experience of working in large complex organisations (preferably multi-national) with experience of collaborating with Corporate Functions; new business; finance; legal; customer support; export control; project management; quality; shipping; engineering; corporate compliance.
