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Date Posted: 2026-08-10
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Harlow, Essex
Position Role Type: Unspecified
Job Description
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Role
01864007 Principal Contracts Specialist
Function
Commercial
Location
Glenrothes, Harlow, or Livingston will be considered as a base site
Working Arrangement
- Hybrid working (3 days on-site at base site)
- Likely business travel to UK sites
- Working with UK wide teams
Security Clearance Required
- Baseline & SC
For further information on security clearance requirements and eligibility, please visit this website: National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK
Duration
Permanent
Hours
37 hrs
Key Skills & Experience
- Legal contracts
- Commercial
- Contractual agreements
- Contract negotiations
- Admin
- Other business skills such as financial, project management, risk management
Benefits and Work Culture
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
- Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
- Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
- 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
- Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
- Enhanced sick pay
- Enhanced family-friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
About Raytheon UK
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.
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About the Role
As a highly valued contracts and commercial specialist, you are expected to be a business enabler, supporting both the winning and subsequent delivery of a profitable business. Making our company one that our customers see as easy to contract with and work with through the delivery of their programmes. You will provide contractual and commercial governance and advice to the bid and project teams as the subject matter expert in your contracting area, support multiple contracts, and provide flexibility as the business requires.
Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience
- Experience in reviewing and drafting contractual documents
- Strong commercial awareness, business principles, and governing law
- Experience of commercial risk management
- Ability to respond to tasks with tenacity and flexibility, whilst working cross-functionally in a multi-disciplinary team
- Strong communicator and relationship builder with both internal and external customers
- Ability to remain calm under pressure and collaborate with others
- Positive, self-motivated, and the ability to work independently
- Willingness and ability to travel occasionally
Desirable:
- Previous experience of contracting in the Defence sector
- Accreditation in Commercial and Supply Chain management
- Eligible to obtain security clearance (SC) beyond baseline personnel security standard (BPSS)
- Basic programme management skill set – Risk Management/Programme Gating/Metrics
- Strong record of problem-solving and dispute resolution
- Experience of working with international suppliers or customers
- Experience of Financial Management
- Awareness of Data Protection and other relevant commercial and contract legislation
- Familiarity with business process management tools (IPDS, SAP or similar) and the competitive bidding process
Responsibilities
- Provide full contractual and commercial support to development, approval, and issuance of bids and proposals, whether in response to RFP/ITN etc. or as part of the company strategy
- Identify any commercial risk, provide input to the overall risk plan, and implement effective risk mitigation
- Lead in the negotiation of contracts
- Manage new and existing contracts effectively, including all contract change control and support to the other functions, including contract flow-downs
- Resolve all commercial issues promptly and effectively
- Manage the financial aspects of the contract, including forecasting and milestone plans (including timely claim submission)
- Be the commercial face of the organisation to the customer, as the day-to-day contact and subject matter expert
- Assure the successful completion, closedown, and archive of contracts
- Be the champion of change and improvement
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RTX
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military, and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.
Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over £2.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. We’re investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland, and 1,600 in Wales.
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