Commercial Contracts Manager (Pre-Award and Post-Award) for NATO with security clearance

Most contracts are won or lost before anybody signs anything.

A large international defence buyer needs a senior contracting professional who can run an acquisition from market research through tender and negotiation to award - and who then stays with it, measuring whether the supplier actually delivers. The work is mostly off site, with regular days in Brussels.

What you would be doing

• Running tender, evaluation and acquisition processes on complex, high-value requirements
• Researching suppliers and markets, and turning that into sourcing strategy rather than a folder of notes
• Advising on sourcing models, and on the policy and procedure behind tendering and supplier selection
• Negotiating with suppliers and partners, including the acceptance criteria that decide later arguments
• Overseeing delivery against the contract, using performance measures to challenge what is not good enough and to fix under-performance with the terms you have
• Keeping the procurement record straight in the systems used for it, and compliant with the rules that apply

What you would bring

• A degree in a related discipline with post-related experience, or a long and progressive contracting career in place of one
• Pre-award and post-award contracting on high-value, systems-level acquisitions, ideally acquired in a large international institution or a large international company
• Command of competitive and sole-source practice, cost and price analysis, contract law and contract administration
• The independence to work directly with a project manager on a large acquisition with little supervision
• Clear speaking and writing, including briefing senior management, and practical use of e-procurement and procure-to-pay tooling
• Welcome extras: exposure to ICT, artificial intelligence, cloud, secure data environments or next-generation digital services

Why this one is worth a look

It is senior commercial work with real scope, mostly delivered from wherever you are based, and it runs from a standing framework rather than a one-off project.