Strategic Sub-Contract Manager - Aerospace; Hybrid

Your impact

The role of a Sub-Contract Manager at Leonardo offers a wide variety of experiences and is both exciting and challenging in its nature. This role in particular represents a unique opportunity for a high calibre candidate to thrive within the GCAP Programme, which is an area of significant growth within the business.

Job Description

Your impact

The role of a Sub-Contract Manager at Leonardo offers a wide variety of experiences and is both exciting and challenging in its nature. This role in particular represents a unique opportunity for a high calibre candidate to thrive within the GCAP Programme, which is an area of significant growth within the business.

This role will involve actively working in a matrix organisation structure supporting a variety of complex assignments, with a focus on development of a next generation supply chain which is capable of supporting current development activity and future production. The focus for this role will be the management of high value and high-risk sub-contract commitments for emerging requirements. An ability to engage with key IPT stakeholders - in particular Project Management and Engineering, is key to the success of the Programme.

The successful candidate should also have an ability to act as the functional interface with FCA and other GCAP IPTs across the UK business, to share knowledge and best practice, and to co-ordinate key procurement activities to bring about consistent processes and leverage economies of scale. A demonstrated ability to understand early concept technical requirements and ensure that these are carefully flowed down to subcontractors, ensuring back-to-back campaigns and project execution, would be an advantage.

The ability to build, foster and create value with strategic partners and suppliers is essential.



What You’ll Bring

• Lead the delivery of sub-contract management activities and other procurement related services which may be required by the business
• Lead relationships with Strategic Leonardo suppliers, holding Supplier Business Reviews, ensuring performance management, risks and impacts.
• Provide leadership and governance in business winning and programme delivery with minimum supervision.
• Accountable for the Procurement activities within the Procurement & Development IPTs
• Negotiate complex agreements and risk/reward mechanisms for business case models
• Translate customer / project requirements into commercial documents, particularly pertaining to the design, development and production of bespoke complex electronic systems and sub-systems
• Understand mechanisms of mitigating risk associated with entering into commercial agreements
• Develop and negotiate robust contracts for services, intangible and tangible deliverables
• Working in collaboration with cross functional stakeholders to ensure the flowdown of appropriate terms and conditions from customer contracts to enable compliance with contractual obligations and mitigate commercial / contractual risks
• Promotes customer intimacy in both internal and external relationships
• Requires technical training to degree standard, professional qualification and/or significant domain experience (studying towards or achievement of MCIPS is preferred)
• Demonstrated collaboration, communication, planning, problem solving, influencing, decision making and continuous improvement skills
• A good working knowledge and understanding of Procurement within the Defence/Aerospace industry (or a similar sector) and ability to apply them with minimal supervision and direction
• Relationship building skills with cross-functional colleagues, customers and suppliers
• A good understanding of the Commercial and Legal Aspects associated with contracting within the Defence/Aerospace industry (or a similar sector)