Job summary

Successful engineering business require a Contracts Officer. Applicants need commercial, contracts or legal experience, ideally within an engineering or manufacturing setting - aerospace, automotive, defence etc.

Key skills required for this role

Commercial Officer, Contracts Officer, Legal Officer, Senior Commercial Officer, Senior Contracts Officer

Important

Commercial Officer, Contracts Officer, Legal Officer, Senior Commercial Officer, Senior Contracts Officer

Job description

Successful engineering business require a Contracts Officer. Applicants need commercial, contracts or legal experience, ideally within an engineering or manufacturing setting - aerospace, automotive, defence etc.

The Contracts Officer will join a small commercial team and be responsible for day-to-day contract management and administration tasks, across the entire commercial contract lifecycle. An exciting end-to-end commercial contracts rile, the Contracts Officer will support new/existing contracts and programmes from bid/tender stage, negotiation, through-life and close out. The Contracts Officer will be both supplier and customer facing.

Specific duties of the Contracts Officer include:

• Support commercial input into bids and proposals
• Review new and existing customer/supplier contracts - key clauses, spot opportunities, mitigate risk etc.
• Support contract negotiations with customers and suppliers
• Provide contractual advice to colleagues in engineering, sales, bids, procurement etc.
• Maintain contract database, customer and supplier records

Contracts Officer applicants should meet the following criteria:

• Previous experience with contracts, commercial, sales, procurement, or legal agreements
• Previous experience within a manufacturing or engineering business, aerospace, automotive, defence etc.
• Ability to identify commercial opportunities and risks/commercial acumen
• Collaborative, relationship builder
• Comfortable with a hybrid working arrangement