Commercial Contracts Officer Didcot, England
Job description
Due to continued growth, Astroscale have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Contracts Officer to join our pioneering business at our state-of-the-art new facility in Harwell, Oxfordshire.
We are a fast-growing company where you can expand on your experience and develop your skills further to enable us to deliver amazing results and impact the future of space sustainability.
Your role will be vital in ensuring our legal & contractual framework is compliant and securely in place, so the engineering teams can deliver their projects on time.
As a Commercial Contracts Officer with a legal background, ideally in contract law, you will be reporting directly into the Global Head of Procurement and be responsible for day-to-day contract management activities on specific multi-million-pound contracts.
You will also support both the Procurement Team on a number of existing contracts, the bid team on proposals for new business and the Deputy Managing & Operations Director for wider business on commercial topics.
Whilst space experience would be an advantage, it is not essential for this role, as proven commercial and legal experience are the key skills we are looking for.
Responsibilities
- Commercial point of contact for all contracts management
- Management of all new and existing NDA’s
- Understand the impact of changes to existing contractual terms and conditions and lead programme teams in ensuring such change is accounted for in priced proposals and be able to communicate the implications effectively.
- Ensure that any contractual requirements within contract changes which require flow-down to suppliers are made by supply chain colleagues
- Support the contracts representatives in preparing contract review approval documentation and gaining sign-off for this
- Support contract negotiations with suppliers, customers and other stakeholders.
- Strong account management to understand the needs of the customer whilst protecting the commercial and regulatory requirements of the company
Essential Skills
- Legal background
- Proven experience within a relevant role
- Working knowledge of contracts and standard contracting terms for supply of goods and services
- Experience of drafting formal communications to external parties, such as commercial letters and priced proposals
- Experience negotiating with customers and suppliers
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken
Desirable skills
- Contract Law
- Procurement and bid awareness
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- Opportunity to work with a highly talented, diverse & dynamic international team with cutting edge technology
- Flexible working around core hours in a friendly and supportive environment
- Hybrid working available (dependent on individual role requirements)
- 25 days holiday (increasing yearly up to a maximum of 28 days) + 8 days Bank Holiday
- Life insurance and long-term sick pay
- Private healthcare (taxable benefit)
- Relocation allowance
- Visa sponsorship for employees (while we would prefer applicants with existing right to work for this role, we will consider visa sponsorship for an outstanding candidate)
- New state of the art office and cleanroom facility
- Regular social events
Location
Astroscale UK (Harwell), with potential for some travel to Astroscale Japan (Tokyo)
About Astroscale
We aim to deliver cutting edge technologies that will become part of routine commercial space operations by 2030.
Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company dedicated to in-orbit servicing across all orbits. Founded in 2013, we are developing innovative and scalable solutions across the spectrum of in-orbit servicing missions, including End of Life services, Active Debris Removal, In-situ Space Situational Awareness and Life Extension Services, to create sustainable space systems and mitigate against the hazardous build-up of debris in space.
Note to recruitment agencies: Astroscale operates a preferred Supplier List, and we do not accept unsolicited agency approaches. Please do not forward candidate CVs or details in response to this advert, or to any Astroscale employee.
