Contracts Specialist / Junior CCM

A high-growth technology & technical engineering services business seek a Contracts Specialist to join their established in-house commercial & legal contracts management division, with a defined career development path to Commercial Contracts Manager within the business.

Salary: c.£35000-£50000 (Neg. DOE) + benefits

Location: Hybrid WFH + 2 days p/w in Crawley/Gatwick area HQ

This is an opportunity for a junior/developing (c.1-5 years post-grad CCM experience) Commercial & Legal Contracts Specialist to take up position within an established wider commercial & legal (CCM) team for a truly innovative, highly profitable and continually expanding technology & engineering business group.

As part of the centralised and group-wide commercial & legal contracts team, the Contracts Specialist will work alongside other CCM’s and report to the Head of CCM. This role will support and develop to lead full contracts T&C’s analysis, negotiation and drafting across the business’ technology networks (hardware, software and SaaS) design, build, engineering installation and asset management (sales & supply side contracts).

Entering the business as a Commercial Contracts Specialist, this role will be given a clear and defined career path, training/support and development opportunity to become a Commercial Contracts Manager (CCM) within the business.

Core workload engagement & focus:

• B2B legal contract arrangements - contract T&C's analysis, review, drafting and negotiation at bid/tender/proposal, execution, in-life and renewal stages (sales and supplier sides).
• Ensuring legal compliance, risk mitigation, SLA adherence, deal success and, where possible, commercial advantage is achieved
• Engagement with internal CCM division, General Counsel and all other commercial & technical departments
• Advising Sales, Business Development, Procurement, Exec leadership and wider technical engineering teams on all commercial and contractual issues/solutions
• Assist in the refinement and development of commercial & contractual templates, playbooks, tools and processes
• Wider business commercial administration, including sales order processing, SLA management and other ancillary work.

Key experience & qualifications required for Contracts Specialist application:

• Legal education degree foundation – LLB, LLM, LPC, Cilex or similar (other non-legal degree, and proven hands-on legal skill set of B2B contractual T&C review and drafting also considered)
• Demonstrable experience of B2B contractual T&C’s analysis, drafting and negotiation (sales contracts, supply/sub contracts, NDA, MOU’s and understanding of key elements such as LoL, Warranties, Indemnity, IP and broader commercial B2B aspects within).
• Any B2B sector experience background welcome, but a preference/benefit could be: Engineering, Engineering services, Technology, SaaS

• Any additional knowledge exposure to/awareness of NEC3/4, JCT or FIDIC contract suites/process could be an advantage (not mandatory)

• Agile approach - able to balance competing demands in a high-volume, fast-paced and growing business environment
• Analytical and inquisitive - willing to fully engage in the business’s technical sector, product/service specifics and stakeholder groups
• Stakeholder focused – able to build rapport with sales and technical stakeholder groups alike, internal and external (up to C-suite).

N.B. This business is not seeking an FQ solicitor for this role/team, nor will it offer training routes to become so. This is a more commercially oriented CCM role and team utilising legal expertise in the B2B contracts focus.

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