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Contract Manager

Papendrecht, The Netherlands, GKN Aerospace [322]

Field(s) of expertise
Procurement and Legal
Job type
Permanent
Education
Bachelor
Deadline
Closed

About this job

We are looking for a Contract Manager who is ready and eager to take up the challenge in defining and safeguard the contractual baseline for our Aerospace proposals and programs. If you are experienced in contract lifecycle management, we are looking for you to complement our team.

Responsibilities

As Contract Manager you will be focal point for managing contracts throughout the full contract lifecycle. You will ensure full compliance and maximum financial and operational performance at minimum risk and cost to the company. You will be part of contractual discussions and negotiation and work closely together with our Legal department and, accountable stakeholders within organization to achieve the maximum result.

After entering a contractual agreement, you will be responsible that all contractual obligations are properly define and approved. Furthermore, you will manage, record and keep track of the contract including all contract amendments and changes using state-of-the-art IT tools (i.e. CLM Matrix). Key activity will be to maintain the best contractual position during execution together with the program teams.

Good communication skills and ability to build an optimal network are essential to be successful. Therefore, good knowledge of Dutch and English language, both written and verbal is essential. In case of disputes with a contract party, you will ensure proper and professional claim handling.

You coordinate the following activities:

  • ensure compliance of contract obligations with company policies, governance and standards;
  • coordinate and act as a linking pin between departments during the proposal phase;
  • analyses and challenges proposed contractual conditions;
  • support the proposal team during commercial reviews;
  • ensure that contractual obligations are down-flowed to internal and external stakeholders; support and participate in contractual negotiations, as applicable (either new business cases or claim settlement);
  • provide risk management recommendations to safeguard and identifies proactively risks at all phases;
  • timely report deviations from contractual obligations;
  • robust and accurate record keeping of all contractual agreements;
  • provide periodic or ad-hoc reporting of contractual status, claim handling, material litigation issues and/or any relevant commercial issues;
  • Executes contract sign-off procedures, manages related supporting documentation and coordinates activities with the contracting stakeholders.

Profile

You will play a vital role in accelerating the GKN strategy and providing contract management support. You will help to improve our standards in close cooperation with the Director Commercial, the contract management team, GKN commercial managers and (international) stakeholders.

As Contract Manager you are a sparring partner for stakeholders within the organization. At tactical level, you work in close cooperation with different departments, such as legal, engineering, supply chain (contract) management, business modeling, business development, program management, finance etc.

Our contract management team supports all GKN Fokker Aerospace divisions which means that your daily activities will be very divers and require on-site presence (mainly within the Netherlands). You home-office will be at Papendrecht. The Netherlands

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