Other : Commercial Manager

Your tasks

• Act as the designated commercial and contracts manager, for various engineering and defence projects.
• Lead commercial negotiations for the business with suppliers, customers and partners.
• Manage positive relationships with key customer and supplier commercial interfaces.
• Be responsible for managing contract configuration and ensuring a contract baseline is maintained at all times, as well as leading the preparation, negotiation and execution of variations.
• Prepare all official correspondence and notifications in relation to the engineering and defence projects assigned to them.
• Prepare commercial project reports and contribute to programmatic reports, from a commercial perspective as required.
• Oversee all commercial aspects of program/service delivery activities, in relation to the engineering and defence projects assigned to them.
• Review, assess and document commercial and contracting risks in accordance internal governance processes, to ensure compliance and proactively mitigate commercial risk.
• Provide commercial and contractual subject matter expertise to all aspects of the Rohde & Schwarz Australia business.
• Ensure that business and commercial risks are adequately defined, understood and pragmatically managed and controlled.
• Proactively engage internal legal and commercial relationships to ensure the business is operating within corporate policies and guidelines as well as best practice.
• Support with intercompany agreements where required ensuring these agreements adequately cover business and risks between Rohde & Schwarz Australia and its international affiliates.
• Actively influence and engage program personnel (and beyond) within the business to ensure that commercial risks are identified and addressed proactively.
• Deliver training for key commercial matters for the business and project teams.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the commercial capability for Rohde & Schwarz Australia.
• Contribute to regular reporting for management reviews on commercial matters of the business.

Your qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in Law/Commerce/Business or related disciplines.
• Commercial technical expertise
• Demonstrated experience of successfully business partnering with multiple non-commercial functions;
• Training and experience in contract negotiation;
• Must hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance.
• Experience in preparing the commercial response to tenders, bids and proposals;
• Experience in contract management for a major contract and;
• Ability to travel internationally and interstate, when required.

Interested?

We are looking forward to receiving your application!
Equal opportunities are important to us. We are looking forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

Important to know:
Due to the nature of our work, many our roles require an Australian nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet eligibility.
Eligibility and clearance process information can be found at;
https://www.defence.gov.au/security/clearances/about/overview