Programme & Commercial Support Officer

Fantastic challenges. Amazing opportunities.

GKN Aerospace is reimagining air travel: going further, faster and greener! Fuelled by great people whose expertise and creativity sets the standards in our industry, we’re inspired by the opportunities to innovate and break boundaries. We’re proud to play a part in protecting the world’s democracies. And we’re committed to putting sustainability at the centre of everything we do, opening up and protecting our planet. With over 16,000 employees across 33 manufacturing sites in 12 countries we serve over 90% of the world’s aircraft and engine manufacturers. There are no limits to where you can take your career.

Job Summary

Born out of growth, a unique opportunity has arisen for a Programme & Commercial Support Officer based at our Filton site, to work within our Civil Airframe business supporting multiple programmes of differing complexity, customers and products.

You will liaise closely with the Programme Manager, operations, and commercial teams in a role that would suit a dynamic, innovative, and forward thinking aspiring program management professional, who can work well with others to deliver business results and improvements.

Supporting the day-to-day program operations of the business, you will be responsible for the administration and activities associated with control and monitoring of progress, scope, cost and resource management within the program.

You will represent the customer’s needs, support commercial tenders/ negotiate pricing and support Airbus fleet MRO activity including AoGs.

You will identify opportunities for sales growth and cost reduction whilst ensuring a quality and on time delivery of product across.

Job Responsibilities

This Is a Fantastic Opportunity For Either An Aspiring Programme Manager Or Commercial Officer To Join Us And Make a Real Difference To Our Organisation And Will See You Carrying Out Some Of The Following Tasks To Include; But Not Limited To

• Exemplifying a safety-first mind-set and ensuring that the GKN Aerospace Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards are applied and that their assigned areas are a model of a world class healthy and safe working environment
• Responsible for providing Commercial support and administration support to the IPT team.
• Responsible for the weekly/monthly reports within the program.
• Reviews customer purchase orders for acceptability (terms & conditions, pricing, delivery, specifications, government regulations and legal requirements) and prepares sales order and related directives.
• Work closely with Value Streams on order-handling internally as well as support CMs, COs and PMs in the forecasting process (MPS &SIOP analysis)
• Preparing and maintaining the customer outlook for budgeting purposes.
• Supporting Risk and Opportunity Management activities and managing the risk register to control and mitigate the risk exposure.
• Point of Contact with customer for on-site scheduling
• Intensively liaise with customer in daily meetings
• Coordinate priorities internally between Operations team: Manufacturing engineering, logistics and team leads
• Active involvement in problem solving
  
  

Essential

Job Qualifications

To be successful in this role you will have excellent communication skills and be a proficient Microsoft user. You will be a team player able to work co-dependently with others in the team.

You can demonstrate your experience working well in a fast-paced and collaborative team that is responsive and results-oriented.

You will have a demonstrated record of accomplishment of success in a programme, operations or similar environment, able to influence stakeholders and develop great internal and external working relationships.

Desirable

In addition to the above the following attributes would also be advantageous, but not essential:

• Previous experience in a similar project or commercial support role.
• Experience in financial or scheduling coordination.
• Experience working in a Manufacturing environment.
• Project Management Professional certification like IPMA level D /PMP CAPM/ APM FPQ / /Other certification is a plus
  
  

What We're Offering

Once you’re on board you’ll get the following perks and benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Industry Leading Pension Scheme = we’ll match your contributions up to 8% on a 1 : 1.5 basis
• Life Assurance 8 x salary
• 25 days' holiday + bank holidays
• Hybrid working
• Income protection
• Shopping discounts
• Cycle To Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• A collaborative, dynamic working environment
  
  

We’ll offer you fantastic challenges and amazing opportunities. This is your chance to be part of an organisation that has proven itself to be at the cutting edge of our industry; and is committed to pushing the boundaries even further. And with some of the best training on offer in the industry, who knows how far you can go?

A Great Place to work needs a Great Way of Working

Everyone is welcome to apply to GKN. We believe that we can only achieve our ambitions through a coming together of diverse minds who enjoy collaborating in an inspirational environment. Through our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging and by living our five powerful principles we’ve created a culture where everyone feels welcome to contribute. It’s a culture that won us ‘The Best Workplace Culture Award’. By embracing and celebrating what makes us unique we encourage everyone to bring their full self to work.

We’re also committed to providing an accessible recruitment process, so if you require reasonable adjustments at any stage during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know.

We are the place where human dreams, plus human endeavour, shape the future of aerospace innovation and technology.