Senior Commercial Officer

Senior Commercial Officer – Little Paxton, St Neots (PE19) – Permanent – Full Time

Salary £30,230 – £43,186 DOE

• 25 days annual leave (inclusive of up to 3 days December shut-down)
• Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave
• Two pension schemes to choose from
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance + discounts for additional family members
• Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary
• Multiple Save schemes
• Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Retail discounts
• Continuous Professional Development support
• Annual Wellness Allowance

Join our Commercial team. Do you enjoy negotiating agreements, building strong business relationships and helping turn new opportunities into successful outcomes? At MASS, you'll be part of a team supporting a specialist technology business, where good commercial decisions play an important part in winning work and delivering projects for highly secure customers.

As our Senior Commercial Officer, you'll work alongside colleagues across the business, supporting bids and proposals, negotiating commercial agreements and helping teams navigate contractual challenges. It's a varied role where your commercial knowledge and judgement will help protect MASS's interests and support our continued success.

What you’ll be doing:

• You'll support a range of commercial activities, from contributing to bids and proposals to negotiating agreements with customers and suppliers.
• Working with teams across MASS, you'll help resolve contractual challenges, support projects through delivery and ensure commercial risks and obligations are properly managed.
• You'll also contribute to more complex agreements and help ensure export control requirements are met.

Where you’ll work:

Based at our head office in Little Paxton, St Neots, you'll report to the Head of Commercial and Procurement and work closely with teams across MASS. We offer a hybrid arrangement, with three days on-site and two days working from home each week.

How you’ll support us:

You’ll help MASS secure new opportunities, build effective partnerships and deliver projects successfully, protecting our commercial interests along the way.

The invaluable experience you’ll bring, to help us achieve more:

• You’ll bring sound commercial judgement, strong negotiation skills and the ability to build effective relationships across the business.
• You’ll be comfortable working with different stakeholders, balancing commercial priorities and finding practical solutions to contractual challenges.

Essential experience:

• Experience in a commercial or contract management role.
• Proven experience negotiating, managing and amending commercial contracts.
• Experience building and maintaining effective business relationships.
• An understanding of business finance, including profit and loss, margins, mark-up, escalation and foreign exchange.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and persuade others.
• The ability to work independently when required, manage competing priorities and promote good commercial practice.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

Desirable experience:

• A degree or equivalent qualification, ideally in Law or a business-related subject.
• An understanding of export control and compliance, including UK export control requirements and ITAR.

What else we're looking for:

We're looking for someone with a positive, proactive approach who is keen to develop their knowledge, share ideas and contribute to the wider Commercial team.

Our non-negotiables:

Due to the highly secure nature of the projects you'll be involved with, you must be:

• A UK National and eligible to work in the UK.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain UK Government Security Check (SC) clearance as a minimum.

Who is MASS?

MASS is an independent, global technology company, trusted by highly secure organisations to provide advanced, digital services that manage data and keep information safe. With our heritage in defence, we offer robust solutions to sectors where security expertise is essential. We work in partnership with customers, using skilled, technical experts. We think innovatively to provide tailored, agile and resilient solutions that secure advantage, so you're ready for digital transformation.

Wellbeing is at the core of our culture, allowing employees to flourish and achieve their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals, including mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme.

MASS is an equal opportunities employer. We know that our people are smart, skilled and motivated and, in return, we provide a friendly workplace where everyone is valued and has the chance to make an impact. Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you!