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At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

The Contracts Officer working in the Operational Commercial Team shall support the Commercial Manager and Head of Commercial to provide commercial management to the D&RS Business in the delivery of the business’s objectives and ensuring that work tendered and undertaken is on a sound commercial basis in accordance Jacobs commercial policy.

Key aims and objectives:

• Provide commercial support to the D&RS business.

• Support pre-contract commercial matters, including tender preparation and approvals in accordance with Jacobs policies and procedures

• Support effective post-contract commercial management of projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Accountable to the Commercial Manager for compliance with Jacobs DOA Matrix, policies and procedures.

• Support the operations teams to ensure all tenders and resulting agreements are in accordance with Jacobs commercial governance and approval processes.

• Have a good understanding of key contractual terms and conditions and able to identify key risks and mitigations.

• Undertake initial review of client terms and conditions and advise of any commercial issues whilst working closely with Commercial Manager/ Legal as necessary to support negotiation and approvals of client terms.

• Be able to administer existing frameworks including gaining agreement with key stakeholders on variations to rates and provide support to the Business Unit in relation to other contract amendments/variations as necessary.

• Maintain accurate contractual records of key Framework Agreements and ensure information I accurately recorded on the appropriate system for internal/external auditing purposes.

• Stakeholder management between Operations, Legal, Finance, Tax, Insurance etc from a commercial perspective.

• Planning and prioritising delivery of commercial support to meet delivery timescales.

• Attendance at lower level Green Reviews and being able to come back and recommend approval or otherwise, whilst ensuring internal governance is followed.

• Support the delivery teams in providing effective change control and management early warnings and variations.

• Advise the Commercial Manager of the emergence of commercial problems in good time including being able to produce written recommendations for consideration.

• Able to maintain good relationship management of stakeholders both internally and externally.

• Other commercial support to the specific requirements of the business.

Here’s what you’ll need :

• Preferably degree educated(or equivalent) in commercially related discipline

• Significant experience in a commercial role preferred

• Good communication skills

• Good understanding of commercial law

• Experience in competitive tendering and commercial risk management

• Ability to develop relationships and building a network of commercial contacts

• Appreciation of customer business and commercial drivers

• Preferably some experience/capability to work with varying forms of contract, for example NEC, FIDIC etc

• Ability to work in a team environment and willingness to assume additional or new responsibilities readily

• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Broad range of IT skills

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs. (https://careers.jacobs.com/life-at-jacobs/)

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here. (https://www.jacobs.com/about/inclusion-and-diversity?_ga=2.1062705.1096535124.1626879887-1704311048.1575562676)

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent.  For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role

Jacobs is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), age, medical condition, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression and transgender status, mental disability or physical disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, citizenship, low-income status or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language.