Assistant Contract Manager

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The Contract Management department as a part of one Product Unit within the Business Unit Ground Combat is primarily responsible for the execution of customer contracts.

This responsibility includes invoicing cash flow gross margin and profitability for orders taken. It also includes delivering of contract deliverables in time on budget and with satisfactorily quality in accordance with the contract directive. Additionally the department plays an important role in the Win Business process ensuring that future offerings to customers are taking into account the operations ability to satisfy the customer.

Ground Combat invests in product development based on market needs with cutting edge technology. Our products are extremely sought after on the market place and we have a very wide customer base.

Your Role

As an Assistant Contract Manager you will be responsible for supporting one or several Contract Managers in the execution of contracts (customer orders) with contract deliverables to several Ground Combat markets internationally. You may also coordinate and execute parts of contracts in close collaboration with a Contract Manager.

Your role includes support in the following areas:

• Ensuring that the time schedule budget and other contractual commitments agreed with the customer are kept.
• Supporting the contract teams consisting of members from for example production purchasing development and quality to ensure the progress of the execution at hand.
• Initiating maintaining and developing relationships internally and with the customers.
• Participating in and leading activities with focus on continuous improvements within the Contract Management department of Ground Combat.
• Occasionally needed; travel nationally and internationally.

Your Profile

Knowledge and Skills desired:

• Good people skills and a team player mindset with the drive to deliver and learn
• Ability to run several activities in parallel with great structure
• Advanced communication and presentation skills in Swedish and English verbal and written
• Experience from cross functional work with stakeholders from many different departments
• Experience from working closely with customers internal or external
• A degree in a technical financial managerial or similar field is an advantage
• Cultural awareness working with stakeholders globally is an advantage

This position requires that you pass a security vetting based on the current regulations around/of security protection. For positions requiring security clearance additional obligations on citizenship may apply.

Kindly observe that this is an ongoing recruitment process and that the position might be filled before the closing date of the advertisement. You can send us your application in either Swedish or English.

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