Contracts Officer

Contracts Officer

Portsmouth

Brief

Contracts officer required to manage, provide guidance on and administer multiple, complex acquisitions and relationships with minimum management assistance for a leading aerospace, arms, defence, information security, and technology corporation. The organisation provides systems engineering, software development, training solutions and complex program management for global security, civil and commercial markets.

Salary: £48,000

What the role of a Contracts Officer entails:

• Demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the different types of commercial/contract models and how to use them
• Ensures Terms and Conditions compliance including flow down of prime contract commercial requirements to suppliers
• Ensure timeliness of all contract actions including DCAs, contract summaries and contract close out in a timely manner.
• Keep leads, team leads and/or managers appraised of current issues and their mitigation/resolution
• Responsible for ensuring flow down of prime contract commercial requirements to suppliers.
• Issue and analyse RFQs/ITTs including multi criteria
• Is able to improve the standards for proposals/ITTs
• Negotiations completed in a reasonable time with minimal management/team lead dependency
• Required to be influential in negotiation plan including preparation, strategy, appointment of roles and the approval process and is able to maintain effective control of the sessions

What experience you need to be a successful Contracts Officer:

• Typical minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar role
• MOD contracting experience.
• Either CIPS qualified or studying to achieve CIPS

This really is a fantastic opportunity for a Contracts Officer to progress their career. If you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!

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