Fuel Contract Manager

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

If this sounds like an environment you would thrive in, we have an exciting opportunity for a Fuel Contract Manager. 

Your Day-to-Day:

Assure customers’ delivery and technical requirements are met, and contract value is maximized consistent with Westinghouse strategic and financial objectives. Understand and communicate customers’ needs to business unit. Act as operations and commercial focal point for all communications with customer concerning contracted deliverables under existing contracts, cooperate and assist with business unit marketing activities, contract execution, order implementation and control, and resolution of problems for specific customer deliverables.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead role for Nuclear Fuel delivery activities to meet on time deliveries; order implementation and control; resolution of technical problems for assigned customers.
• Financial responsibility to ensure that invoices are issued on time and revenue / EBITDA targets are met.  Continuously maintain systems supporting Financial Planning, Business Planning and Demand Planning.
• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of contracts, WZ products and services. Assist with integration of products and service capabilities and directly promote to resolve customer needs.
• Responsibility for assigned customers for promptly resolving, often through direct customer contact, scope, warranty, product or technological issues. Assure issues are promptly resolved internally.
• Communicate product shipping status and issues to the customer while building strong relationships with customer counterparts up to and including senior manager/vice-president levels. Know the customer's organization, objectives, and expectations.
• Support Commercial Teams with multi-business unit proposal/contract preparations, customer presentations, and contract negotiations. Validate product line capabilities to meet customer requirements prior to proposals. Communicate customer requirements to operations and product line.
• Coordinate manufacturing and direct commercial activities associated with order, implementation, invoicing, and closeout, ensuring accuracy and contract compliance of assigned contracts. Manage contracts with regard to the schedule and billing plan.
• Coordinate customer visits with plant personnel to ensure that customer requirements are met while at WZ.
• Receive POs and revisions and manage the acceptance/implementation process with Commercial Integration. Lead the process from SAP sales order entry to CRIS shop order creation for Americas and EMEA Fuel.

Who You Are:

As a successful candidate, you will bring the following to the team:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline preferred. Nuclear industry and/or zirconium industry experience is desired.
• Minimum of six years of experience in product line/engineering/marketing /projects organizations or equivalent. Preferred 10-year experience.
• Knowledge of zirconium or other metals manufacturing, zirconium products and services, commercial operations, financial planning and strategic objectives. Previous customer-oriented experience desirable. Experience using SAP, Excel and Word.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate deliverables status, issues, and Westinghouse technical position to the customer while building strong relationships with customer counterparts.

Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry’s first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being.  In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacations and Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
• Educational Reimbursement Program
• Employee Referral Program

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

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