Overview

Job title: Senior Contracts Officer

Location: Templecombe (Somerset) - hybrid working arrangement – 3 days a week in the office

Are you looking for your next challenge where you’ll have the opportunity to work within a highly regarded team where you will be responsible for proactively managing and directly influencing our bids and projects? Would you like to work for a world-renowned organisation that researches, develops and supplies technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better and keep us safer? Then look no further…

We have a great Senior Contracts Officer opportunity to join our Defence Commercial, Legal & Contracts (L&C) team.

Core Benefits:

On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which includes;

• Half day every Friday, usually finishing around 13:00
• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) plus opportunity to buy up to 40 hours/year (pro rata)
• 24 hours volunteering paid for
• Life cover
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

As a Senior Contracts Officer, you will be responsible for supporting the aims and objectives of the L&C function. Working on your own initiative, but with the appropriate supervision by a senior member of the L&C team or the Head of Contracts, you will oversee the contractual affairs of designated areas within the business.

You will carry out some or all the following activities in relation to medium complexity bids and/or contracts:

• Serve as a focal point of contact for customers regarding administrative aspects of contracts.
• Ensure contract and data administration activities are carried out
• Work with the PM to complete the contract loading on CLM
• Manage routine contracts
• Ensure bid / project team understand the purchase order / contractual obligations
• Populate NDAs
• Maintain contractual records, documentation of key correspondence, status and issue reports, etc.
• Customer payment management

About you

We are looking for someone who might be at the beginning stages of a career in the legal and contract field, who can demonstrate the following competencies (under supervision):

• Contractual Understanding - Able to describe the basic principles of contracts and their associated terms and conditions.
• Legal Awareness - an awareness of basic legal principles in routine contracts.
• Financial Principles - a basic understanding of the financial implications on routine contracts.
• Risk Management - a basic awareness of the principles of contractual/ commercial risk; has contributed to the identification of risks of basic complexity.
• Negotiation - a basic awareness of the principles of effective negotiation.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Legal

Industries

• Defense and Space Manufacturing

References: Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Thales by 2x