Commercial Contracts Officer - Barclay Meade : Job Details

Global engineering technology business require a Senior Contracts Officer. Applicants need commercial, contracts or legal experience, ideally within a B2B setting (defence, IT/Technology preferred) and a law degree or legal qualification

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

Specific duties of the Senior Contracts Officer include:

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

Senior Contracts Officer applicants should meet the following criteria:

• Previous experience with contracts, commercial, sales, procurement, or legal agreements
• Previous experience within a engineering or technology business, aerospace, automotive, defence etc.
• Ability to identify commercial opportunities and risks/commercial acumen
• Collaborative, relationship builder
• LLB, LLM, IACCM, GDL, LPC would be advantageous
• Comfortable with a hybrid working arrangement