High volume, real urgency, and contracts that have to stand up to audit.

Working to the principal contracting officer, you would own the contractual side of procurement for a multinational defence organisation, on-site in Brussels, Belgium.

What you will be doing

• Every contractual step of competitive and sole-source procurement: drafting, coordinating and releasing solicitations, evaluating and analysing bids, holding discussions with bidders and awarding contracts under the organisation's own procedures
• Coordinating with contractors so tasks are performed on time and to the contract
• Managing a high volume of requests for quotation and purchase orders, often under pressure
• Contract administration — changes, amendments and the paperwork that keeps them clean
• Reviewing business cases and deciding the right procurement route: open market or a collaborative framework
• Investigating, resolving or escalating procurement problems, and driving supplier service improvement
• Supporting internal customers, and contributing to acquisition reporting on time and to standard

What you will need

• Higher vocational training in a relevant discipline with four years of relevant experience, or a secondary qualification with six — plus, at a responsible level, at least eight years in contracting, finance or business
• Demonstrated knowledge of competitive and sole-source procurement procedure, price analysis, contract law, contract administration and industrial practice
• Experience of high-value, high-volume framework contracts for services
• Maintaining financial records to a compliance and audit standard
• Software licence procurement, and a grip on perpetual versus subscription models
• The judgement to work independently and responsibly
• Fluent business English

Nice to have

• Public sector procurement background
• Prior work in an international environment with both military and civilian elements
• Basic-level contracting training courses on top of your vocational qualification

Why this one is worth a look

Procurement here is not administrative box-ticking — you decide the route, run the competition and hold the supplier to it, on contracts that matter to operational delivery.