Principal Contracting Assistant (Procurement and Contract Administration) for NATO with security clearance

High volume real urgency and contracts that have to stand up toaudit.

Working to the principal contracting officer you would own the contractual side ofprocurement for a multinational defence organisation on-site in Brussels Belgium.

What you will be doing

• Every contractual step of competitive and sole-source procurement: drafting coordinating andreleasing solicitations evaluating and analysing bids holding discussions with bidders andawarding contracts under the organisations own procedures
• Coordinating with contractors so tasks are performed on time and to the contract
• Managing a high volume of requests for quotation and purchase orders often under pressure
• Contract administration changes amendments and the paperwork that keeps them clean
• Reviewing business cases and deciding the right procurement route: open market or acollaborative framework
• Investigating resolving or escalating procurement problems and driving supplier serviceimprovement
• Supporting internal customers and contributing to acquisition reporting on time and tostandard

What you will need

• Higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with four years of relevant experience ora secondary qualification with six plus at a responsible level at least eight years incontracting finance or business
• Demonstrated knowledge of competitive and sole-source procurement procedure price analysiscontract law contract administration and industrial practice
• Experience of high-value high-volume framework contracts for services
• Maintaining financial records to a compliance and audit standard
• Software licence procurement and a grip on perpetual versus subscription models
• The judgement to work independently and responsibly
• Fluent business English

Nice to have

• Public sector procurement background
• Prior work in an international environment with both military and civilian elements
• Basic-level contracting training courses on top of your vocational qualification

Why this one is worth a look

Procurement here is not administrative box-ticking you decide the route run the competitionand hold the supplier to it on contracts that matter to operational delivery.