Contracts Manager

Location

Bristol

Salary

Negotiable

Contract

Contract

Contracts Manager

Location:Bristol

Contract: 6-months
Pay:Up to£55p/h (Inside IR35)

Please note that due to the nature of the work you will need to already hold active SC security clearance.

Responsibilities:

• Influences business decisions throughout the governance process, ensuring identification and mitigation of business risk as appropriate.
• Promotes a culture of best practice and sharing of knowledge within the function and across the wider business, including communicating potential opportunities/risks across the company
• Constructs and leads the commercial and contractual elements of the governance deliverables, including but not limited to developing negotiation strategies and obligations registers that identify the key business, contractual and commercial business risks.
• Supports negotiations with potential customers and/or in relation to large or complex tenders and prepare or reviews, as required, various commercial agreements, such as NDAs, Teaming Agreements, Collaboration Agreements, etc.
• As appropriate, supports and guides the Commercial team to achieve the goals of the business.
• Responsible for ensuring business approvals within delegated authority and managing those requiring escalation due to complexity or value.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Possesses advanced knowledge and experience as a commercial/contracts advisor/manager;
• Requires technical training to degree standard, professional qualification and/or significant domain experience.
• Understanding of the Defence sector, including Cyber and Data where applicable.
• An understanding of where the company operates, its products, customers and suppliers.
• A high degree of understanding of the business governance, life cycle management and business processes with the ability to apply them independently to meet business objectives.
• Ability to engage and influence cross-functional/cross site teams.

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.

Apply Job reference 131121_1793287414 Date posted 29 October 2026 Sector Defence, Aerospace and Security

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