2025 Contract Management Graduate

Are you passionate about understanding a business and how to ensure the commercial integrity of all the commitments that it makes? Are you interested in not just the terms and conditions of a contract but the financial considerations of building a price, how you approach and balance risk, developing customer relationships as well as overseeing contractual affairs at every stage, from bidding and negotiation to project delivery and contract closure? Do you want to be part of a Graduate Programme that will develop and challenge you? If so, then look no further…our Contract Management Graduate Programme can provide exactly that.

What the role has to offer:

• Reviewing customer terms and conditions and evaluating and advising on commercial risk, including recommended mitigation strategies
• Preparation of costing and pricing information and explanatory commentary
• Interpreting contractual documents and making amendments to existing and potential contracts
• Advising on potential liabilities, risks, issues and disputes arising with customers, suppliers, or third parties and working within multi-functional teams to reduce company risk and exposure
• Contributing to the successful delivery of contracts by managing the commercial aspects of the delivery to the customer as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Handling customer change requests from receipt of change notices through to contract amendment to incorporate them
• Ensuring appropriate export licences are in place, including liaising with supply chain to understand the export classification of goods
• Reviewing proposal documents to ensure consistency, clarity and professionalism

Graduate Programme

The graduate programme is a 2-year talent programme offering you the chance to experience living and working in 2 of our UK locations for a period of 12 months each. Our main UK locations are Crawley, Glasgow, Belfast, Reading, Cheadle and Templecombe.

You will have the opportunity to work for different parts of the business for periods of 6 - 12 months and will gain a solid understanding of Thales and the Contract Management role as well as developing your leadership and personal behaviours throughout the scheme.

Requirements:

• You will be on track to or have achieved a bachelor’s degree in any subject
• You’ll be a team player with good interpersonal, verbal and written communication and organisational skills
• You’ll have excellent attention to detail, along with the ability to effectively summarise (oral and written)
• You should be commercially aware and be able to bring a professional attitude to colleagues and customers alike
• You should be comfortable trying new things
• A candidate who is comfortable working with and understanding the interpretation of financial data would be desirable

Benefits

• 201 hours annual leave (plus a company day and bank holidays)
• Company Pension
• Health Care Cash Plan
• Life Insurance
• Discount Portal
• Performance-related pay uplifts
• 80 Hours Volunteering (first two years)

Please note, assessment centres for shortlisted candidates will be held between February and May 2025. Induction week for all Graduate and Apprentices will take place from Monday 01 September until Friday 05 September 2025.