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Demonstrates expertise in contract management and programme delivery within defence or aerospace sectors, with a strong focus on stakeholder management, milestone tracking, and risk assessment. Proficient in translating contractual obligations into actionable plans while ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.
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Contract ManagementStakeholder ManagementProgramme DeliveryMilestone TrackingRisk Assessment
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the contract baseline for one or more defence programmes, including scope, deliverables, milestones, acceptance criteria and dependencies
- Act as workstream lead within the Programme Management team, reporting to the Programme Manager
- Break contractual obligations into executable work packages with clear owners and dates
- Support the Programme Manager in the customer interface on contract delivery, status, milestone evidence, acceptance, correspondence and formal reporting
- Lead commercial negotiations with customers during bid, offering and change request processes
- Secure agreed terms on scope, price, schedule and risk in coordination with Commercial, Finance and Legal
- Align Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, Production and Engineering around contractual commitments, payment milestones and delivery risk
- Trigger change management by identifying scope variations and assessing cost, schedule and delivery impact
- Maintain milestone and payment tracking with Finance and ensure invoicing triggers are evidenced and on time
- Track obligations, flag risks and drive issues to closure
- Support programme and contract reporting for internal leadership and customer governance forums
- Build working routines, templates and cadence to scale contract delivery
Requirements
What you’ll need- A degree in engineering or a comparable technical discipline
- 2-5 years of experience in project, programme or contract delivery roles, ideally in defence, aerospace, or another complex hardware or systems environment
- Proven stakeholder management
- Ability to read a contract and translate it into a delivery plan, including milestones, deliverables, acceptance criteria and payment terms
- Structured, organised and reliable under pressure
- Strong written and spoken English
- Willingness to work on-site and to travel to customer and production locations as programmes require
- Working knowledge of Dutch, German or Spanish is a nice-to-have
- Exposure to government or military customers and defence procurement processes is a nice-to-have
- Familiarity with earned value management, milestone-based contracting or ITAR/EAR and European export-control frameworks is a nice-to-have
- Experience introducing structure into a fast-growing organisation is a nice-to-have
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Hard Skills
Contract ReadingProject DeliveryProgramme ManagementChange ManagementEarned Value Management
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StructuredOrganisedReliable Under PressureStrong Written CommunicationStrong Spoken Communication
Industry Keywords
DefenceAerospaceGovernment ProcurementMilitary CustomersITAR/EAR Compliance