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We are recruiting for a customer facing Customer Contracts / Commercial Manager to provide commercial and contractual support to a diverse portfolio of projects from initial opportunity identification through to contract completion.

It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?

Location - Reading / Basingstoke Area

Salary - up to £60,000

AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

Market leading contributory pension scheme
Generous holiday entitlement (270 hours a year including bank holidays, plus every other Friday off)
Flexible working hours
Salary sacrifice scheme
Consideration for either full time or part time hours. Just let us know on your application if you wish to work part time


Key Accountabilities:

Maintaining and developing effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
Demonstrating general commercial acumen on negotiations and contracts which are typically non-standard or medium to high complexity;
Conducting assessments on the viability of internal and external opportunities;
Adherence to Customer Contracts and wider AWE processes and governance;
Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

Key Responsibilities:

Provision of clear guidance and expertise to the business on contractual requirements;
Ensuring bids comply with regulatory, governance and legislative matters;
Review and negotiate customer facing agreements such as framework contracts, collaboration agreements, MOUs and NDAs;
Seeking opportunities to simplify Customer Contracts procedures and ways of working;
Being actively involved with understanding, mitigating and managing Customer Contract risks and opportunities.

Whilst not to be considered a check list, candidates should be able to demonstrate some of the following:

Experience in different contracting models, with the ability to apply relevant pricing methods to minimise risk and maximise value for money;
Significant experience in a Government contracting environment;
Highly developed communication and negotiation skills with the ability to influence at all levels;
Effective relationship management at all levels with key internal and external customers and stakeholders;
Good facilitation, presentation, leadership and interpersonal skills;
Excellent organisational and analytical skills and effectiveness to manage priorities in a multi task role delivering to challenging timescales;
Ability to make sound decisions and to challenge;
Well-developed skills in the use of a variety of computerised business software to support business needs;
Ability to identify, use and monitor the key controls to manage performance and ensure the effective monitoring and application of controls and exception reporting;
Experience of stakeholder management and relationship.

Candidates must be willing and able to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role