Commercial Contracts Officer - Belfast, United Kingdom - Arguile Search

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Job Description

Our client, a leader in the IT space are looking to add a commercial contracts officer to their team. This will mainly be focused on customer facing contracts and will be a mix of reviewing and drafting commercial contracts alongside some contract management.

The role:

• Identify the risks, liabilities and commitments of contractual agreements; ensure these are clearly understood and that the business fully appreciates any potential impact.
• Reviewing, drafting, updating and maintaining contract documents
• Monitoring and reporting performance and compliance against contractual obligations including commercial performance, financial management and contract management
• Monitoring customer satisfaction
• Working with the contract delivery teams to ensure that the management of change request process and change implementation is carried out in line with the contracts.
• Reporting on progress of change requests and projects
• Reviewing contract performance, assessing commercial risks and ensuring appropriate steps are taken to manage the risk
• Preventing and resolving contractual disputes
• Assuring adherence to Group Commercial Policy
• Supporting the client engagement teams in all commercial aspects, post contract signature, to achieve the orders, profit and cash budget and overall management of the Client relationship.
• Support the delivery streams who are responsible for the delivery of projects and provide clear direction working with the client engagement team.

The person:

• Experience of working with commercial contracts.
• Experience of working closely with finance, operations and technical specialists.
• Sector experience is not essential.
• A law degree or equivalent would be an advantage.