Commercial Contracts Manager (Pre-Award and Post-Award) for NATO with security clearance

Most contracts are won or lost before anybody signs anything.

A large international defence buyer needs a senior contracting professional who can run anacquisition from market research through tender and negotiation to award - and who then stays withit measuring whether the supplier actually delivers. The work is mostly off site with regulardays in Brussels.

What you would be doing

• Running tender evaluation and acquisition processes on complex high-value requirements
• Researching suppliers and markets and turning that into sourcing strategy rather than afolder of notes
• Advising on sourcing models and on the policy and procedure behind tendering andsupplier selection
• Negotiating with suppliers and partners including the acceptance criteria that decide laterarguments
• Overseeing delivery against the contract using performance measures to challenge what is notgood enough and to fix under-performance with the terms you have
• Keeping the procurement record straight in the systems used for it and compliant with therules that apply

What you would bring

• A degree in a related discipline with post-related experience or a long and progressivecontracting career in place of one
• Pre-award and post-award contracting on high-value systems-level acquisitions ideallyacquired in a large international institution or a large international company
• Command of competitive and sole-source practice cost and price analysis contract law andcontract administration
• The independence to work directly with a project manager on a large acquisition with littlesupervision
• Clear speaking and writing including briefing senior management and practical use ofe-procurement and procure-to-pay tooling
• Welcome extras: exposure to ICT artificial intelligence cloud secure data environments ornext-generation digital services

Why this one is worth a look

It is senior commercial work with real scope mostly delivered from wherever you are based andit runs from a standing framework rather than a one-off project.