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About Ocean Infinity
Ocean Infinity is using and creating technology to transform operations at sea to enable people and the planet to thrive. Our approach to innovation is fearless and boundaryless. We challenge everything and have vast ambitions to modernize traditional industries through technology. Our corporate ethos centres on safety, equality, and education, and we live our responsibilities beyond our front doors.
Our company is built on the belief that we must operate at sea in a way that is more environmentally responsible. We employ people who embody our core values:
- Courageous
- Trustworthy
- Conscientious
To do the right thing, we expect. We strive for excellence, collaborate effectively, and are genuinely excited about our work. Ocean Infinity offers ample opportunities for professional development across various disciplines, regardless of background or experience.
Joining our team means contributing to harnessing technology and creativity to disrupt a legacy industry. Here at Ocean Infinity, we don't operate like any average workplace.
Role: Contract Manager
Role Overview
The Contract Manager oversees the strategic commercial and contractual framework, ensuring robust governance, disciplined execution, and risk management across multiple defence and national security programmes. The role involves managing deliverables for Defence and National Security customers, as well as the contracts with subcontractors, suppliers, and partners. The Contract Manager drives responsible growth for Ocean Infinity by developing licensing models, compliance assurance, and scalable economics that enable international expansion.
This position is the primary commercial authority responsible for contract lifecycle management — from negotiation, flow-downs, and implementation to performance tracking and close-out. You’ll collaborate across multiple teams, ensuring corporate commitments are met with commercial governance and partnering models supporting meaningful growth.
Key Focus Areas:
- Contract lifecycle management across multiple programmes, including customer contracts, subcontractors, and supplier agreements
- Negotiation and compliance with MOD contract frameworks and Defence regulation
- Development of licensing structures and IP/IPR strategies to enable reusable assets and commercial scalability
- Alignment with defence project delivery needs — balancing strategic contractual requirements with tactical execution
Key Responsibilities
MOD Contract Management
- Lead commercial management for MOD customer contracts, ensuring requirements are met, obligations are clear, and outcomes are delivered tactically to drive success and customer confidence.
- Ensure aligned enterprise-wide compliance, milestones, reporting, and change management, ultimately protecting delivery timelines and commercial interests.
- Maintain compliance with defence contractual standards, DEFCONs, DEFSTANs, JSPs, and procurement laws — translating these regulations into clear commercial controls.
- Act as the primary audit and governance lead for MOD matters, maintaining an audit-ready approach to risk management, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
- Shape changes, variations, and determining claims aggressively, all while protecting commercial value.
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Licensing, IP, and Productisation
- Develop scalable licensing frameworks for Ocean Infinity’s technologies, including:
- Software
- Data exploitation
- Platform and service models
- Define IP ownership and usage rights, protecting strategic capabilities from customer flow-down, operational restrictions, or regulatory barriers.
- Collaborate with Legal, Engineering, Commercial, and Product teams to transform project outputs into repeatable, saleable products that further commercial growth.
- Establish templates, playbooks, and governance to streamline licensing strategies — supporting consistency and reducing future negotiation costs.
Subcontractor and Supplier Contract Management
- Lead the management of subcontractor, supplier, and partner relationships, implementing governance over their technical, commercial, and delivery performance.
- Ensure all contracts with subcontractors/suppliers align with requirements from lower-tier contracts (flow-down provisions).
- Develop and implement commercial governance frameworks to provide real-time visibility of supplier delivery status.
- Coordinate strategic negotiations with key partners — negotiating terms that protect programme targets while incentivizing future engagement.
Commercial and Financial Leadership
- Contribute and lead commercial direction for programme planning, forecasting, and budget management.
- Manage commercial risk assessments related to change extensions or contract variations, proposing mitigation strategies.
- Play an active role in pricing strategies, commercial proposals, invoicing reviews, and cash flow protection.
- Drive margin protection and strategic growth alignment through commercial modeling, planning, and disciplined execution.
Governance and Compliance
- Act as chief contract governance and commercial disciple officer, ensuring all matters are conducted per company policy, delegated authority, legal requirements.
- Support and lead company-wide compliance initiatives, including monitoring of audit risks.
- Ensure adherence to information assurance, export control, and cybersecurity requirements necessary for defence engagements.
Skills & Experience Requirements
Essential Skills
☐ Proven contract management expertise, previously in defence, maritime, aerospace, engineering, or another complex highly regulated sector. ☐ Experience within MOD commercial environments, including contracting frameworks like DEFCONs, Single Source Control Regulations (SSCR), DSPCR, and MOD procurement. ☐ Expertise in managing subcontractor, vendor, and partner contracts — negotiating, performance monitoring, and addressing disputes. ☐ Ability to negotiate and interpret complex contractual clauses — leading formal contractual discussions. ☐ Experience with commercial principles such as risk management, confidentiality, terms and conditions negotiation, pricing structures analysis. ☐ Comfortable in tightly regulated compliance environments — managing documentation, audits, and performing formal correspondence. ☐ Demostrative effect in technical, operational environments, with proven ability to collaborate with engineering/technical teams.
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Desirable Additional Skills
☐ Familiarity with ITAR/EAR or export controls due to defence engagement. ☐ Technical knowledge from maritime tech, naval systems, or electronics sectors. ☐ Experience with NEC or relatively bear forms (or JCTs) in commercial settings. ☐ Contribution in the bid/proposal process — writing technical offer components, leveraging past lessons learned. ☐ Project management certifications, like PRINCE2/Lean, or commercial qualifications.
Personal Attributes
- High organisational ability, analytical precision — managing multiple contracts and counterparts.
- Proactive and forward-thinking, quickly identifying key risks and opportunities.
- Independently effective, able to drive projects autonomously while collaborating across broad functions including Legal, Engineering, Finance, and Commercial teams.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a commitment to value creation, leading efficiency, and business scalability.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, influence, and negotiation capabilities — operating cross-functionally.
- Suitability for regulated environments — comfortable with security handling and confidentiality requirements.
What You Bring
The role is ideal for experienced professionals primed to make an impact. You should be ambitious, aligned with our need for growth, and equally supportive in addressing wild ambitions through operational execution.
At Ocean Infinity, we recognise and reward talent. This is a seventh a true growth position, with opportunities and accountability within application.
Salary Note
Salary varies by location and requisite skills/requirements. The remuneration process includes an assessment based on:
- Technical expertise
- Business acumen
- Demonstrated leadership and performance.
Our Values in Action
Diversity & Inclusivity Our belief is firmly founded on the value all workplaces gain from acknowledging differences. We proactively ensure equitable access and vigorously prioritise inclusion as a core competitive advantage. Our commitment does not waiver; we drive tangible change every day.
Impact Motivation By honouring our mission—'to use innovative mindsets and technology to transform operations at sea for people and planet—we ensure that diverse voices, hearts, and mindsets are guided toward a meaningful collective purpose.
We’re just beginning this journey. We’re not perfect, but you’ll notice it in the work we produce, the futures we build, and the acceptance and respect within every corner of our organisation. And we could use hands like yours as part of the team.
To contribute to something that makes a difference, check if this role resonates with your ability to act selflessly and strategically.
Apply now. Let’s change the blue.
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