Commercial Contracts Coordinator
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Role
JBA is the global leader in flood risk science and a forward-thinking company committed to providing the right information for our clients’ businesses to help them manage and mitigate risk. Our clients operate in the insurance, finance, property search and mortgage sectors worldwide. We are looking to appoint a Commercial Contracts Coordinator to an exciting new role.
You’ll be joining an established environmental and engineering consultancy who put sustainability and resilience to climate change at the heart of our company strategy. With offices in nine countries around the world and across the UK and Ireland, we like to think we make a difference. We are independent and employee-owned allowing us the freedom to focus on innovation and our commitment to exceptional client service. Our workforce is central to our success, and we invest heavily in supporting staff development. We are great people to work for. Visit https://www.jbarisk.com/ to find out more about what we do.
Your role
Efficiently managing the lifecycle of new and existing client contracts is a crucial aspect of our company's success and we have created an exciting new role of Commercial Contracts Coordinator to help support our business development team. The successful candidate will work closely with a wide range of stakeholders including client managers and the Head of Legal to agree, document and complete contracts accurately and efficiently, thereby streamlining the contract lifecycle and building strong relationships with our clients. Typical contracts include data licences, reseller agreements, confidentiality agreements and test and evaluation licences. This role will enable the business development team to focus more effort on new opportunities bringing tangible benefits to JBA.
Key aspects of the role will include:
Contract Preparation
Liaising closely with the client manager, legal and client you will:
- populate “self-serve” contract templates with the agreed commercial terms and issue to the client.
- contain the contract negotiation to as short a period as possible by managing the contract workflow efficiently.
- lock down terms and resolve any issues that are preventing the deal from moving forward whilst keeping our clients/key stakeholders informed of the contracts’ progression at all stages.
Contract Management
- Identify improvements to the contracting process.
- Ensure contract compliance relating to data delivery, mid-term changes and payments.
- Monitor contract expiry and renewals ensuring renewal negotiations are initiated in a timely manner.
- Be responsible for maintaining contract details in central database.
Professional Growth
- The role helps develop a wide range of skills, including negotiation, communication, analytical thinking, and project management.
Professional legal support is available from the Head of Legal and further commercial support from the Business Development team.
The team member we’re looking for
Qualifications
- Ideally be degree qualified in a commercial/business subject.
Essential attributes for the role
- Experience of working on commercial contracts including the completion of standard contract templates, addressing and resolving client comments and checking and reviewing drafts.
- Experience of working in a B2B environment with a good all-round understanding of financial, commercial and business principles.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Skilled at creating concise, professional documents in line with company standards.
- Able to interpret and share contract information with recipients in a clear manner.
- Used to working collaboratively with a range of senior and junior colleagues across teams.
- Strong time management/organisational skills and able to manage the progression of multiple new contracts whilst managing a large portfolio of ongoing contracts simultaneously.
- Analytical approach with a meticulous eye for detail.
- Excellent Microsoft Word and Excel skills.
Location and contact
JBA supports hybrid working which provides for greater flexibility with the way that we work.
The full-time role will be located in our modern, eco-friendly offices at Broughton Park, near Skipton, North Yorkshire. Our team has adopted a hybrid working approach with some requirement to work both from home and in the office. We supply basic equipment to support this. You will need to be in the Skipton office a minimum of 2 days a week.
This unique work setting sits on the boundary of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and offers easy access to stunning countryside. Skipton is a bustling market town with great schools, services and leisure facilities, and is within easy reach of Leeds, Bradford, Manchester and the Lake District. Find out more at https://www.welcometoskipton.com
For further information or an informal discussion about this position, please contact Judith Ellison on judith.ellison@jbarisk.com
The JBA Family
The JBA Group is a family of environmental, engineering and risk management companies committed to exceptional service and helping clients and communities build resilience to flood and environmental risk in a changing climate. We're leading the way to integrate science and technology to provide our clients with a forward-thinking view of climate resilience.
We can only do this through our fantastic team, and we believe in providing a competitive salary, flexible working conditions and the best benefits package we can. We’re an employee-owned organisation and have no external shareholders to pay, meaning all our staff benefit directly from our profits through our annual Employee-Owned Benefit scheme.
Alongside this, we’re focused on helping our staff develop their skills and offer a generous training budget to every member of staff, as well as a professional development programme and support in the attainment of professional qualifications including chartered membership.
We invest in our staff’s mental health and wellbeing, encouraging our staff to maintain a healthy work-life balance and organising social activities from bake sales and book clubs to badminton. We also invest in the wider community by funding our own charitable foundation, the JBA Trust, supporting sustainability initiatives such as tree planting, and facilitating outreach visits by our team of STEM ambassadors.
JBA is committed to creating and sustaining a working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfil their potential and we welcome applications from suitably qualified people from all sections of the community. All roles will be considered for part-time or flexible working, and we encourage applications from candidates who may be returning to work after a career break for any reason, or who are looking to change industry.
No unsolicited CVs from Agencies. All Agencies should note that if JBA receives an application via other means - even if it comes after your first contact with us - there will be no contractual entitlement to an introduction fee or other fees. In sending us any applications you are deemed to have agreed to these terms.
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