Contracts Manager - Crawley

Location: Crawley, United Kingdom

Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.

Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

Contracts Manager

Crawley or Bristol based

Are you an experienced contracts manager keen to work on higher value, higher complexity contracts and bids? If this sounds like you, we may have the ideal role for you.

What this role has to offer

• Significant opportunities for development across a diverse portfolio of bids and programmes within a global business.

• Opportunities to work on complex and high profile contracts and bids in a fast-paced, growing business

Our Opportunity

Thales has an exciting new opportunity for a role focussing on a post signature contract. As a Contracts Manager, your primary responsibility will be the oversight of this significant and highly valued Programme within our Above Water Systems (AWS) business domain.

You will be working as part of the UK project delivery team. Overseeing the contractual affairs of AWS throughout the Project Life Cycle, identifying and ensuring the mitigation of commercial risk, and responsibility for the commercial aspects of Project Delivery.

Key tasks/Responsibilities:          

• Providing the commercial voice and expertise across multi-functional and multi-cultural teams and providing support and guidance to the business.

• Establish and maintain professional and effective relationships with customers, commercial representatives, and counterparts

• Primarily supporting the delivery of a substantial programme for Thales UK.

• Manage the contract baseline and lead contract change activities, with both the client and our internal stakeholders. 

• Identifying and managing issues and disputes arising with customers in conjunction with the Legal function

• Manage and resolve disputes and claims

                                                                    

About You

The successful candidate is expected to be a team player, a highly motivated self-starter, comfortable in dealing with senior members internally and in the Customer organisation and able to defend their decisions when challenged.  The individual will have demonstrated experience of post signature contract management of highly complex, high value contracts, and will be familiar with government contracting.

The successful individual will be SC security cleared, familiar with dealing with UK Official Sensitive or equivalent goods and information and above, and familiar with working on MS Office products as well as enterprise software systems.

Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.

In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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