Senior Export Contract Manager
Location: Stevenage
Salary: £60,000 to £70,000
Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to 27%, Car allowance of £300 per calendar month, Strong pension, 25 days annual leave, enhanced parental leave.
We’re working with an award-winning, world-leading, technical & scientific engineering organisation, with sites across Europe, that have an exciting opportunity for an Experienced Export Contract Manager. Reporting to the Export Contract Management UK Executive, you will demonstrate a broad and deep set of commercial, financial and project management skills to lead and deliver complex and strategically important export contracts.
Their order book stretches for many years, and they have healthy profits and a range of new projects in place. They’re stable with steady controlled growth, offer dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further.
The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it.
Senior Export Contract Manager Responsibilities
A fantastic opportunity has arisen within the Programmes Export Operations Directorate for an accomplished and experienced Export Contract Manager.
Reporting to the Export Contract Management UK Executive, the successful candidate will demonstrate a broad and deep set of commercial, financial and project management skills to lead and deliver complex and strategically important export contracts.
The role involves:
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Lead the commercial interface into international government and military customers for contract delivery on behalf of the business up to 1* level
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Handle multiple cross-domain and geographically diverse contracts simultaneously
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Deliver the contract schedule to ensure the highest levels of customer satisfaction whilst fostering strong and long-standing customer relationships
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Anticipate and proactively resolve contract delivery issues and concerns through risk and opportunity management that protects business interests and international reputation
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Lead customer acceptance events, transport delivery solutions and capture contractual payments.
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Handle coherent and consistent communications with the customer, into government and industrial partners as well as internally.
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Lead contract amendment negotiations as well as supporting Sales & Business Development to acquire new international business from current and new customers.
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Collaborate with national companies (NATCO) in France, Spain and Italy to deliver Inter Company Trading export contracts
Senior Export Contract Manager skills and qualifications required:
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Leadership, influencing and relationship management skills are required to establish and maintain strong internal and external relationships.
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Ability to define, communicate and implement strategic intent with experience of operating in complex political environments
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You are an experienced manager who has led contract delivery in both the bid and execution phases, ideally within an international environment
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You will have effective interpersonal and communications skills and an open, confident and clear leadership style.
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Experience of people management in a leadership role as well as experience leading internal and external stakeholder relationships.
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Be prepared for international travel with an open mind to embrace different cultures.
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Experience of preparing and authorising Bid submissions, ideally with exposure in the role of Business Bid Authority;
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Experience of working in large complex organisations (preferably multi-national) with experience of interfacing with Corporate Functions; new business; finance; legal; customer support; export control; project management; quality; shipping; engineering; corporate compliance.
As the successful Senior Export Contract Manager, you will be rewarded with an exciting and challenging role with a company that offers excellent career opportunities, a fantastic working environment, and the opportunity to work with and travel to European business partners.
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