COMMERCIAL OFFICER OPERATIONAL

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Job description

Here at TPA we are very excited to be able offer the position of Commercial Officer with a highly competitive salary and desirable staff benefits.

We are dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do.

Our clients' employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers' mission and quest for professional growth. They provide an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to their culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do. Our client is an agile global aerospace and defence technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers' mission-critical needs.

The company provides advanced defence and commercial technologies across air, land, sea, space and cyber domains. They have approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 48,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

Your next role to come join their growing Contracts team and work with exciting contracts and leading edge technology. The Commercial Officer will report to the Contracts Manager and join our contracts team who are responsible for establishing and maintaining contractual activities between external customers and the IPT (Integrated Product Team). This role will be critical in influencing successful business outcomes in order to achieve key business and financial objectives for orders, revenue recognition, operating income and free cash flow for new and continuing programs. The Commercial Officer analyses new laws, regulations and contract trends for potential impact on business unit goals and objectives.

This position will be responsible for protecting the interests of the company by understanding, interpreting and agreeing suitable terms and conditions with the customer.

The responsibilities of your role will include the following:

* Leading and managing contractual activities between external customers and IPT including any changes to the contractual baseline

* Negotiating commercial contractual commitments milestone payments, LDs etc. and defining contract change control with customer

* Ensuring contracts are written in line with customer and company expectations, whilst protecting the companies interests

* Ensuring product & service delivery solutions meet contractual requirements, commercial milestones are correctly invoiced in line with contractual payment terms, and customer satisfaction is monitored

* Ensuring that any production changes are compliant with existing contractual agreements, negotiating contractual changes with customers as a result of production change requests as required

* Providing information to the IPT Leader in response to customer enquiries or complaints. Communicating directly with customer stakeholders in relation to enquiries or complaints when requested by the IPT Leader

* Ensuring final customer payments have been received during programme closure, ensuring that any GFA or CFA has been returned or disposed of in line with contractual and governance requirements.

What you'll bring the role of Commercial Officer requires the following experience and skills:

* Project Management Experience desirable

* Aerospace and Defence industry experience considered an asset

* Graduate Degree or related experience desirable.

* Must be confident and assertive to be successful in this role.

* Be able to successfully communicate will all levels of the business.

Additional benefits, we value and appreciate everything our people do for us and offer an attractive package.

A few of our benefits are: · Flexible working hours · Half day Fridays · 25 days holiday per year, increasing with long service · Private medical insurance and a health care cash plan · Cycle-to-work scheme · Training and development opportunities · Mental health and wellbeing schemes · Full reimbursement of professional membership cost

Important to know many of our clients roles require the ability to obtain a security clearance relevant to the country of the position. In addition, applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and may be subject to government security checks. Our client is proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. They are committed to maintaining a workplace that is free from unlawful discrimination and offers equal opportunities for all. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

To hear more about this excellent company and opportunity, apply through the link and we will call you to discuss in more detail