Export Contract Manager

Export Contract Manager

Location: Stevenage

Salary: £50,000 to £65,000

Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to 21%, 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 Export Contract Manager.

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.

Export Contract Manager Responsibilities

• Leading the contract and commercial day-to-day interactions with international Customers, ensuring good customer relationships and satisfaction for UK export contracts.
• Managing communications with the business and externally with industrial partners.
• Anticipate and proactively resolve issues and concerns in order to fulfil the contractual commitments and obtain customers' acceptance and payment for the deliverables.
• Ensuring business interests are safeguarded by on-time export contract schedule adherence and robust mitigation of risk.
• Supporting Sales & Business Development in the acquisition of new business.

Export Contract Manager skills and qualifications required:

• You are an experienced Contract Manager who has led contract delivery in both the bid and execution phases, ideally with an international client base.
• You will need to have a high degree of self-motivation and drive with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• You will have effective interpersonal and communication skills and an open, confident and clear leadership style.
• Experience in people management in a leadership role as well as experience leading internal and external stakeholder relationships.
• Be prepared for international travel with an open mind to embrace different cultures!
• Experience in preparing and authorising Bid submissions, ideally with exposure in the role of Business Bid Authority;
• Proven experience in interfacing with Corporate functions such as finance, customer support, export control, project management, quality, shipping & engineering;

As the successful 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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