AWE is currently recruiting a Trade Compliance Specialist to join the Customer Contracts - Governance & Operations Team. The Governance & Operations Team provides expertise in Trade & Export Controls, Intellectual Property Management, maintains AWEs Insurance Portfolio, develops Customer Contracts Governance, and provides the tools, procedures and resources used by the wider Customer Contracts Function.
Location:
RG7 4PR , located between Reading and Basingstoke, with
free onsite parking . Package: 36,000 to 45,000
(depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience). Working pattern:
AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider
flexible working requests
so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application. Let us introduce the role As the Trade Compliance Specialist, you will be responsible for maintaining and developing effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and providing advice and guidance to the wider AWE team on Trade & Export Controls. As part of your role, you will prepare end use statements in support of international procurement activities, raise UK export licence applications using SPIRE and LITE (where required), associated record keeping activities in SharePoint to underpin export compliance, provide advice and guidance to AWE stakeholders regarding UK and international trade controls, and provide cross-functional support to the wider Customer Contracts Team in relation to other Commercial activities (e.g Insurance, Intellectual Property). You will be responsible for: Raising UK import and export licences on behalf of AWE;
Managing Trade and Export controls requests such as End-Use Statements and overseas export controls documentation;
Seeking opportunities to simplify Customer Contracts procedures and ways of working;
Defining and implementing internal and external best practice within Customer Contracts processes, and ways of working;
Being actively involved with understanding, mitigating and managing Customer Contract risks and opportunities.
Who are we looking for? AWE is ideally seeking a Trade Compliance Specialist with relevant business qualifications or equivalent experience and commercial acumen (Sub Contract and Contract Management exposure). You will have good communication skills and exposure to internal and external stakeholder management and relationship development. Experience of using benchmarking techniques and analysis of financial and business data. Strong organisational skills, and effectiveness to manage priorities in a multitask role delivering to challenging timescales. Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following: Understanding of UK and International export controls principles;
Good team player;
Highly developed communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels;
Effective relationship management at all levels with key internal and external customers and stakeholders;
Good facilitation, presentation, leadership and interpersonal skills;
Excellent organisational and analytical skills and effectiveness to manage priorities in a multi task role delivering to challenging timescales;
Ability to make sound decisions and to challenge;
Well-developed skills in the use of a variety of computerised business software to support business needs.
Experience in a Government contracting environment;
Some reasons we think you'll love it here: AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include: 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
Market leading contributory pension scheme
(we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
Family friendly policies:
Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
Opportunities for
Professional Career Development
including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
Employee Assistance Programme
and Occupational Health Services.
Life Assurance
(4 x annual salary).
Discounts
- access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
Special Leave Policy
including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
The
'Working at AWE' page
on our website is where you can find full details in the
'AWE Benefits Guide'. Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically 1-2 days onsite per week. Important things you need to know: We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment, if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 10 years in order to apply for DV clearance.
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RG7 4PR , located between Reading and Basingstoke, with
free onsite parking . Package: 36,000 to 45,000
(depending on your suitability, qualifications, and level of experience). Working pattern:
AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider
flexible working requests
so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application. Let us introduce the role As the Trade Compliance Specialist, you will be responsible for maintaining and developing effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, and providing advice and guidance to the wider AWE team on Trade & Export Controls. As part of your role, you will prepare end use statements in support of international procurement activities, raise UK export licence applications using SPIRE and LITE (where required), associated record keeping activities in SharePoint to underpin export compliance, provide advice and guidance to AWE stakeholders regarding UK and international trade controls, and provide cross-functional support to the wider Customer Contracts Team in relation to other Commercial activities (e.g Insurance, Intellectual Property). You will be responsible for: Raising UK import and export licences on behalf of AWE;
Managing Trade and Export controls requests such as End-Use Statements and overseas export controls documentation;
Seeking opportunities to simplify Customer Contracts procedures and ways of working;
Defining and implementing internal and external best practice within Customer Contracts processes, and ways of working;
Being actively involved with understanding, mitigating and managing Customer Contract risks and opportunities.
Who are we looking for? AWE is ideally seeking a Trade Compliance Specialist with relevant business qualifications or equivalent experience and commercial acumen (Sub Contract and Contract Management exposure). You will have good communication skills and exposure to internal and external stakeholder management and relationship development. Experience of using benchmarking techniques and analysis of financial and business data. Strong organisational skills, and effectiveness to manage priorities in a multitask role delivering to challenging timescales. Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following: Understanding of UK and International export controls principles;
Good team player;
Highly developed communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels;
Effective relationship management at all levels with key internal and external customers and stakeholders;
Good facilitation, presentation, leadership and interpersonal skills;
Excellent organisational and analytical skills and effectiveness to manage priorities in a multi task role delivering to challenging timescales;
Ability to make sound decisions and to challenge;
Well-developed skills in the use of a variety of computerised business software to support business needs.
Experience in a Government contracting environment;
Some reasons we think you'll love it here: AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include: 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
Market leading contributory pension scheme
(we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
Family friendly policies:
Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
Opportunities for
Professional Career Development
including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
Employee Assistance Programme
and Occupational Health Services.
Life Assurance
(4 x annual salary).
Discounts
- access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
Special Leave Policy
including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
The
'Working at AWE' page
on our website is where you can find full details in the
'AWE Benefits Guide'. Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically 1-2 days onsite per week. Important things you need to know: We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment, if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 10 years in order to apply for DV clearance.
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