About this role
<p>GKN Aerospace is ‘s werelds meest toonaangevende leverancier binnen de vliegtuigindustrie. Met 38 productielocaties in 12 landen bedienen we meer dan 90% van ‘s werelds vliegtuig- en motorfabrikanten. Wij ontwerpen en produceren innovatieve slimme ruimtevaartsystemen en componenten. Elke keer dat je per vliegtuig reist, is het waarschijnlijk dat GKN je op weg helpt.<br> We zijn op zoek naar mensen die een verschil willen maken, getalenteerde medewerkers met de vaardigheden en passies om het beste te worden in wat ze doen.</p> <div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="margin:0.0px">Job Summary</H2> </div><div><p>Provide commercial leadership for a customer-centred business across multiple locations and local and core IPTs.</p> <p>Provide data-driven business analysis, guidance and planning and actively contribute to commercial strategy across the business.</p> <p>Ensure business compliance with statutory and GKN Aerospace governance.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="margin:0.0px">Job Responsibilities</H2> </div><div><p>Commercial</p> <ul> <li>Ensure that Commercial Governance, policies and procedures, are embedded and adhered to within the VP Customer.</li> <li>Work with the Customer Finance Director to ensure customer debt is properly managed and customer overdue debt minimized and maximise cash opportunities.</li> <li>Create and support contract management framework and ensure contractual change management controls are in place and ensure that all contracts and contract amendments are uploaded to the Aerospace central contracts database.</li> <li>Responsible for initiating and managing the processes that govern order receipt and acceptance and management thereafter.</li> <li>Act as leader, expert and internal escalation point for negotiation and resolution of commercial claims to/from customers. </li> <li>Ensure that compliancy and contracting risk (technical, financial, contractual) is properly understood and managed in the negotiation of terms and conditions for new business and ensure that all contracting obligations are fully understood.</li> <li>Accountable for the deployed resources that manage the commercial bids, proposals and contract Gate reviews such that risks are understood, minimized and managed appropriately.</li> <li>Collect data and provide payment milestone overview and adherence to cash-in.</li> <li>Support the claim process for customer claims and Material Litigation reporting and provide guidance on claim settlement and claim negotiation strategy.</li> <li>Provide key management information and analysis to make informed business decisions and to help drive business performance improvement, particularly cost competitiveness and cash generation.</li> </ul> <p>Generic</p> <ul> <li>Ensure reviews of business case (Business Models) capture and address commercial and financial requirements of the business.</li> <li>Lead, motivate develop and serve the commercial function within programs. Responsible for the commercial teamÂs functional skills and professional development.</li> <li>To be the acknowledged expert on commercial contracting and program accounting within the program. Oversee revenue recognition for the business.</li> <li>Ensure that the Commercial personnel with thin the Business Line have a good understanding and comply with Export Control requirement.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="margin:0.0px">Job Qualifications</H2> </div><div></div></div></div><p><b>Diversity Inclusion and Belonging (DIB)</b></p> <p>As a global engineering company, innovation is what differentiates us from our competitors and is central to our success.</p> <p>A balance of cultures, ethnicities and genders help bring new ideas and creativity to GKN. We need people of different backgrounds, with different skills and perspectives to spark originality, imagination and creativeness in our teams around the world.</p> <p>GKN is an equal opportunity employer.</p> <p>We treat all our employees and applicants fairly and are committed to ensuring that there is no discrimination or harassment against any employee or qualified applicant on the grounds of age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.</p> <p><img alt="5 Principles" src="https://www.gknaerospace.com/globalassets/global-images/misc-images/5-principles.png"></p> <p>#LI-HYBRID</p>