Customer Contracts (Commercial) Manager

We are recruiting for a customer facing Customer Contracts / Commercial Manager to join the Customer Contracts - Governance & Operations Team. The Governance & Operations Team provides expertise in Trade & Export Controls, Intellectual Property Management, maintains AWEs Insurance Portfolio, develops Customer ContractsGovernance, and provides the tools, procedures and resources used by the wider Customer Contracts Function.

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

Location - Reading Area

Salary: up to £60,000

AWE offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

• Market leading contributory pension scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement
• Flexible working hours
• 9 day fortnight (every other Friday off)
• 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
• Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)

Key Accountabilities:

• Maintaining and developing effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
• Providing advice and guidance to the wider AWE on Trade & Export Controls, Intellectual Property Management, and customer facing agreements such as NDAs or collaboration agreements;
• Maintaining and promoting high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assuring that AWE is compliant with Customer Contract policies and procedures;
• Assuring that Customer Contracts is working within the terms of its delegations;
• Seeking opportunities to simplify Customer Contracts procedures and ways of working;
• Defining and implementing internal and external best practice within Customer Contracts processes, and ways of working;
• Develop appropriate processes and contractual templates to support internal and external stakeholders;
• Review and negotiate customer facing agreements such as collaboration agreements, MOUs and NDAs;
• 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;
• Experience in a Government contracting environment;
• Highly developed communication 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.

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