Commercial Manager

Commercial Manager

Rohde & Schwarz Australia

Geebung, Brisbane

The Commercial and Contracts Manager for Rohde & Schwarz Australia is responsible for providing commercial and contractual support to various projects being delivered by the business. The role reports to the Head of Commercial but also provides advice on commercial matters to the program and supply chain teams as required.

Territory covered includes Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.

Responsibilities include:

- Act as the designated commercial and contracts manager, for various engineering and defence projects.

- Lead commercial negotiations for the business with suppliers, customers and partners.

- Manage positive relationships with key customer and supplier commercial interfaces.

- Be responsible for managing contract configuration and ensuring a contract baseline is maintained at all times, as well as leading the preparation, negotiation and execution of variations.

- Prepare all official correspondence and notifications in relation to the engineering and defence projects assigned to them.

- Prepare commercial project reports and contribute to programmatic reports, from a commercial perspective as required.

- Oversee all commercial aspects of program/service delivery activities, in relation to the engineering and defence projects assigned to them.

- Review, assess and document commercial and contracting risks in accordance internal governance processes, to ensure compliance and proactively mitigate commercial risk.

- Provide commercial and contractual subject matter expertise to all aspects of the Rohde & Schwarz Australia business.

- Ensure that business and commercial risks are adequately defined, understood and pragmatically managed and controlled.

- Proactively engage internal legal and commercial relationships to ensure the business is operating within corporate policies and guidelines as well as best practice.

- Support with intercompany agreements where required ensuring these agreements adequately cover business and risks between Rohde & Schwarz Australia and its international affiliates.

- Actively influence and engage program personnel (and beyond) within the business to ensure that commercial risks are identified and addressed proactively.

- Deliver training for key commercial matters for the business and project teams.

- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the commercial capability for Rohde & Schwarz Australia.

- Contribute to regular reporting for management reviews on commercial matters of the business.

-Ability to travel internationally and interstate, when required.

Skill and Experience:

- Tertiary qualifications in Law/Commerce/Business or related disciplines.

- Commercial technical expertise

- Demonstrated experience of successfully business partnering with multiple non-commercial functions;

- Training and experience in contract negotiation;

- Must hold or be eligible to obtain an Australian Government Security Clearance.

- Experience in preparing the commercial response to tenders, bids and proposals;

- Experience in contract management for a major contract.

A few of our benefits:

• A competitive salary package that includes a generous bonus, and salary continuance insurance.
• Novated lease, and option to purchase extra holidays on top of annual leave.
• Free on-site parking is available as well as being within a great public transport hub that is close to the office
• Training and development opportunities tailored to your personal development goals.
• Exceptional, high performance work culture with emphasis on collaboration, continuous improvement and celebrating success as a team.
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Third Friday of every month is a non-working day - A wellness day for all employees

About R&S:

Established in Australia 40 years ago, the local subsidiary of Rohde & Schwarz continues to provide the latest innovative equipment and expertise to customers in the fields of wireless communications and RF test and measurement, broadcast and media, aerospace and defence, cybersecurity and network technology. R&S Australia has also achieved considerable success providing integrated communications solutions to the Australian Defence Force. The local service centre supports customers in Australia and New Zealand, offering comprehensive calibration and repair service throughout all phases of the product lifecycle.

We are looking forward to receiving your application

Equal opportunities are important to us. We are looking forward to receiving your application regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, ideology, disability, age as well as sexual orientation and identity.

Important to know:

Due to the nature of our work, many of our roles require an Australian nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet eligibility.

Eligibility and clearance process information can be found at;