Eaton

Power management leader for electrical systems

Contracts and Commercial Intern - Development & Planning

Contract ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

InternshipWimborne Minster, Wimborne, UKNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

Apply knowledge of contract law, including analysis, application, and drafting.
Have an excellent academic or degree qualification, or equivalent experience, in law or business.
Be IT literate, with excellent writing and formatting skills and proficiency manipulating data in Excel.

Responsibilities

Review and load orders and provide system updates to customers.
Support interpretation and enforcement of contractual and commercial obligations, identify opportunities to leverage contractual terms in support of business objectives, and submit contractual claims.
Support new business opportunities in accordance with the Contracts Policy, including reviewing terms and conditions and commercial aspects of bids, obtaining approvals, drafting proposals, negotiating, and reviewing and accepting purchase orders.
Support the drafting, negotiation, and execution of customer contracts, liaising with internal teams to understand requirements and design solutions.
Support the customer-facing contracts team by providing end-to-end contractual support for substantial new business opportunities, supporting the bid manager, advising on contracts and commercial issues during proposal gate reviews, and signing off bids in accordance with the delegation of authority.
Proactively manage existing contracts, identify contractual changes, and protect the contractual financial baseline.
Identify and monitor commercial risks and propose mitigations.
Manage and develop relationships with internal and external customers.
Analyze and advise on customer claims in support of business objectives and manage related communications.
Implement and ensure adherence to contracts and commercial policies and procedures.
Manage the engagement of intermediaries in compliance with company policies.
Protect confidential information by ensuring non-disclosure agreements are obtained in line with company policy.
Support the business on trade compliance issues.
Support contracts and commercial functional initiatives, including training and continuous improvement.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in a defence contracting environment involving UK Ministry of Defence and US Department of Defense conditions.
Experience working in multidisciplinary project teams.
Experience assessing the impact of contractual and commercial issues on the business and presenting a considered view on negotiation and resolution strategy.

What you’ll do:

Contract Management & New Business

•Order administration - Reviewing and loading orders and providing system updates to the customer.

•Supporting on the interpretation and enforcement of contractual and commercial obligations and identifying opportunities to leverage contractual terms in support of business objectives and submitting contractual claims

•Provide support to new business opportunities in accordance with the Contracts Policy, including the review of T&Cs and commercial aspects of the bid, obtaining approvals, proposal drafting, negotiation, purchase order review and acceptance.

•Supporting on the drafting, negotiation and execution of customer, liaising internal teams to understand requirements and design intelligent solutions.

•Supporting customer-facing contracts team including the provision of end-to-end contractual support to substantial new business opportunities where they arise, supporting the bid manager, and advising on contracts and commercial issues as part of proposal Gate reviews and sign off any bids IAW the delegation of authority.

•Ensuring that existing contracts are proactively and robustly managed, contractual changes are identified and the contractual financial baseline is protected.

•Identifying and monitoring commercial risks and proposing mitigations.

•Managing and developing relationships with internal and external customers.

•Analysing and advising on customer claims in support of business objectives, and managing related communications

Compliance and Governance

•Implementing and ensuring adherence to C&C policies & procedures

•Managing the engagement of intermediaries in compliance with Company Policies.

•Protecting confidential information by ensuring NDAs are obtained in line with company policy.

•Supporting the business with respect to trade compliance issues.

•Supporting C&C functional initiatives, including training and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

Skills:

•Ambitious with a desire to develop and apply commercial, legal and financial principles in a complex business environment

•Contract law knowledge, analysis, application and drafting

•Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to manage contentious issues with internal and external stakeholders in a professional manner

•Diligent and logical approach to managing multiple tasks and deadlines with good attention to detail

Essential

•Excellent academic or degree or equivalent experience in law/business.

•IT Literate – excellent writing and formatting skills, proficient manipulator of data in Excel

Desirable

•Experience in a defence contracting environment involving UK MoD and US DoD conditions

•Experience in working in multi-disciplined project teams

•Experience in assessing the impact of contractual and commercial issues on the business and presenting a considered view on strategy for negotiation and resolution

About the Company

Eaton

Power management leader for electrical systems

Eaton designs and sells electrical power management products and services for data centers, utilities, aerospace, and other industries. It provides hardware like switches, circuit breakers, transformers, and distribution equipment, plus software and services to monitor, protect, and optimize power flow from generation to end use. It combines an end-to-end power management portfolio with a long history of acquisitions to be a broad, globally integrated provider. Its goal is to enable reliable, efficient, and safe electrification across industries by improving energy management and resilience.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: Dublin, Ireland
Founded: 1911

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