Senior Commercial Officer in Ampthill

Join Our Team as a Senior Commercial Officer

Are you ready to step into a dynamic role as a Senior Commercial Officer ?

Join our team in Ampthill and experience the flexibility of our 4xFlex working pattern, offering a 4 day working week from Monday to Thursday.

Embrace the future of work with our hybrid working model with typically 2 days a week onsite.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contract Management: Lead and administer multiple complex acquisitions and relationships. Identify, define, and implement contract revisions and improvements.
• Timely Execution: Ensure timely completion of all contract actions, including contract summaries and closeouts.
• Effective Communication: Keep stakeholders informed of current issues and collaborate on mitigation/resolution strategies.
• Negotiation Expertise: Influence negotiation plans, negotiate terms and conditions on non-standard agreements, and maintain effective control throughout the process.
• Customer Interface: Act as the main interface between the customer and internal Supply Chain organisation for contract-related matters.
• Strategic Counsel: Provide advice and counsel to programme staff and contribute to decision-making processes.
• Analytical Leadership: Serve as the single point of focus for analytical, planning, and negotiation skills for assigned programmes.
• Documentation and Reporting: Prepare correspondence, presentations, reports, and contract summaries for management briefing.

The successful candidate must achieve the appropriate level (SC) of security clearance.

More details can be found here .

Required skills, qualifications and experience

• Demonstrable experience as Commercial Officer / Contracts Officer or similar role
• Confident at working with minimal supervision from line management and able to manage own workload to meet priority tasks on your responsible programme.
• Sought out on a regular basis as the “go to person” for subject matter knowledge and analytical skills you possess in the commercial domain.
• Collaboratively resolves issues within the team as and when they arise and uses own initiative
• Called upon from time to time to perform special assignments drawing on your commercial knowledge, including contentious issues which require urgent resolution. This may be either an individual or team task.
• Demonstrate a desire to understand issues which are technical and detailed in nature and you will demonstrate an appetite to resolve problems of varying complexity.
• Considers meeting deadlines with a quality output essential and be able to identify and de-conflict workload issues with Line Management as and when required so that priority work can be managed.
• Proactively fact find and construct positions on contractual issues in support of the generation of business cases for opportunities, resolution of issues and finding improved ways of executing commercial business.
• Comfortably present the commercial position at both internal and external meetings and where appropriate to senior management at Ampthill or the Customer team.
• Values building and maintaining internal and external relationships and ensures there is regular communication with stakeholders, particularly with the Customer so that open conversations can take place.
• Receptive to taking on additional tasks, which may not necessarily form part of your strict commercial remit but support career development and/or stretch targets.
• Displays good time management, ability to produce accurate work and obtain the requisite approvals in accordance with company process.
• Understands programme/ business area objectives and is able to articulate and support these goals within your daily interactions.
• Consistently demonstrates Lockheed Core values and places importance of these in all work performed.

What we offer you

At Lockheed Martin our employees come first and therefore your physical, mental and financial wellbeing matters to us.

On top of working in a highly supportive, friendly, respectful environment you can expect so much more.

We are an employer in support of and offering Flexible working with the option to also work a 4 day week depending on business requirements, where you have the option of Fridays off.

We offer Competitive salaries alongside a flexible holiday entitlement.

We have a Wealth of benefits available to you that can be selected through our wellbeing tool upon commencement of employment.

Just a few of our amazing benefits are shown below:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Competitive Pension
• Dental
• Critical Illness
• Life Assurance
• Travel Insurance
• Employee discounts for top high street shops
• Employee Assistance Program which includes free face to face counselling sessions, Legal advice, Financial advice, etc
• Internal training and development alongside out Education assistance programmes
• Reimbursement for a professional membership
• Competitive policies that support flexibility and family leave inclusive of enhanced maternity leave

Business Environment

Lockheed Martin (UK) Ampthill is a rapidly changing, dynamic part of the Lockheed Martin Corporation with both domestic and international customers.

It consists of business areas focusing on Platform Integration, Ground Based Air Defence, Special Projects and Weapons, which provide a variety of products and services to the Ministry of Defence and other customers.

We are looking for talented individuals to join the company, in return we offer an exciting and challenging career path and excellent work/life balance with a 4 day week (Mon-Thurs) and flexible working arrangements.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockheed Martin is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to maintaining a diverse and inclusive work environment.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our culture and reflect our values of doing what's right, respecting others and performing with excellence.

By engaging with all our employees' diverse talents and experiences every day, we can innovate different and better, creating cutting edge solutions and unparalleled customer value.

We know that diversity of thought leads to better solutions for our customers.

Our top priority is finding the best candidate for the job and if you are interested in the position, we’d love to hear how you might contribute to our mission and our team and would encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the criteria set out in our job advert.

In addition, we are committed to inclusion of all individuals and will make reasonable adjustments to our applications process.

If you require assistance or adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact or call 023 92 458 000.