Junior Contracts Officer in Portsmouth

SubSea Craft is a fast growing, privately-funded, UK-based innovative maritime technology company specialising in next-generation, high-performance watercraft and systems. We operate at the intersection of advanced engineering, cutting-edge design, and user-centric innovation, delivering safe, effective, and enabling solutions for both commercial and defence applications.

What we offer:

• Pension Contribution – Pension scheme with the option to contribute via salary sacrifice.
• Annual Bonus Scheme – Eligibility to participate in the company’s annual discretionary bonus scheme, linked to individual and company performance.
• Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover – Comprehensive protection including Life Assurance (4x salary) and Critical Illness Cover for added financial security.
• Annual Leave – Entitlement to 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Christmas Leave – A Christmas shutdown is typically observed.
• Wellbeing Day – An additional Wellbeing Day each year to focus on personal health and wellbeing.
• Family Leave – Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
• Private Healthcare – Access to comprehensive private healthcare coverage to support your physical and mental wellbeing.
• Professional Development – Commitment to ongoing learning and career growth, supported by training programmes and access to LinkedIn Learning.
• Flexible Working – Opportunities for flexible working arrangements to promote work-life balance.
• Inclusive Culture – A professional environment that values diversity, innovation, and collaboration.

Role Overview:

The Junior Contracts Officer will support the Legal team in delivering efficient and high-quality legal services across the business, with a focus on contract management, compliance, and stakeholder support. Reporting to the Commercial Contracts Lead or Head of Legal as required, you will demonstrate a professional and responsive approach to requests from colleagues with accurate and timely work delivered to the highest standards.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the review and drafting of a range of commercial agreements (e.g., supplier contracts, terms and conditions, service agreements, non-disclosure agreements).
• Conducting basic legal research and summarising findings for the Legal team.
• Instructing overseas legal counsel.
• Assisting with due diligence processes and document review exercises.
• Supporting compliance activities, including data protection and internal policy adherence.
• Managing document templates and ensuring version control.
• Maintaining contracts database.
• Supporting the onboarding and monitoring of third-party suppliers from a legal perspective.
• Assisting with dispute resolution preparation (e.g. gathering documents, timelines, evidence packs).

Qualifications and Experience:

• Degree level education (Law or Business Studies/Administration or similar).
• 1-2 years’ previous administrative or legal work experience (including internships or placements) is desirable.
• Proficiency in Word and Excel is essential.
• Previous experience of Atlassian tools (e.g. Jira & Confluence) is desirable.

Values:

Our people are our greatest asset, we continually strive to provide an excellent working environment to enable our team to do their best work. We have an agile professional workforce: we are founded on the belief that our people are valued and our business is trusted, inclusive and commercially-adept.

What we expect from you:

• Teamwork, mutual respect and collaboration
• Initiative and independent working
• Honesty and integrity
• Business and commercial awareness
• Agility, adaptability and continuous development

Inclusive Workplace Commitment:

We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive. If you require any support or adjustments to interact with us, please let us know.

Please note that all offers of employment are conditional and subject to satisfactory DBS, driving licence and reference checks. A criminal record will not automatically disqualify candidates from employment. We will consider criminal record information alongside the wider range of evidence gathered at the application, interview, and pre-employment checking stages.