Fuel Contract Manager

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Position: Fuel Commercial Contract Manager

EDF is Westinghouse’s largest fuel customer. We serve EDF with various fuel related products and services: supply of fuel assemblies, components, fuel on-site services, engineering programs and R&D programs are also under development.

General Job Function:

We serve EDF out of a large and global delivery base: our fuel plants in Sweden, US, UK, and our partner ENUSA in Spain; engineering offices in France, US, Sweden, Belgium, on-site services offices in France and Belgium.

Serving this important customer requires to align and coordinate these many resources to the EDF particular expectations and particular working requirements and practices. Building stronger customer intimacy, knowing the cultural barriers, on language especially, is also critical to capture well their feedback and expectations, drive issues to resolutions, improve customer satisfaction and grow opportunities.

To support these objectives, we aim to strengthen our local Contract Management team, ensuring proximity, responsiveness, and enhanced collaboration with EDF.

Duties and Responsibilities:

> Support our global contract management teams in achieving customer satisfaction and delivering our contracts flawlessly and with agility by providing more customer intimacy.

> This support to the contract management team will be in key areas of our contracts execution, such as:

• understanding and forecasting customer’ needs,
• managing manufacturing issues and developments,
• addressing transport and delivery challenges,
• evaluating security of supply evaluations,
• overseeing engineering projects management,
• handling contractual aspects like claims,
• participating in offer development and negotiations, primarily for day-to-day offers and orders in direct supporting our main contracts.

Cross-functional responsibilities:

> Coach our delivery organizations to understand and meet customer’s requirements and expectations

> Act as a trusted voice of Westinghouse to the customer and vice versa.

> Collaborating with the Fuel Business Manager and the commercial team in developing and securing new business opportunities, support as needed with promoting our products, services and capabilities in front of the customer, capture customer need, Voice of Customer (VOC).

Education and Qualifications / Skills and Competencies:

• Bachelor degree in Engineering, Economics or other relevant area.
• 5 years of experience in the (French) Nuclear business, preferably in fuel related areas.
• Customer relationship and communication skills: ability to create intimacy, build trust
• Project management skills: understand issues, risks, barriers ; identify and drive team to resolution. No PM academics required though
• Business development skills: listen to needs, identify opportunities and articulate solutions
• Experience (3yr+) with EDF nuclear projects: mindset, working practices, customer situation and needs Experience in nuclear fuel (manufacturing, engineering, commercials) would be a plus and reduce learning curve
• French very fluently in speaking and writing
• English fluently in speaking and writing

Why Westinghouse?

We know that to put forth your best effort, you need to be challenged and enjoy what you do in a supportive and respectful environment. We aim to maintain this balance by offering our employees the amenities, benefits and training they need to reach personal and professional goals. 

Below is an example of what employees in France can expect:

• Attractive remuneration
• Peer-to-peer recognition program. 
• Lunch vouchers
• Transportation allowance
• Work-from-home allowance
• Employee Assistance Program: confidential counseling and resources for employees, eligible dependents, and household members
• Learning and development opportunities.
• We encourage our employees to participate in community service events and other team-building activities to strengthen their bonds and inspire each other.

You can learn more about Westinghouse by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com. 

Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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