Description
Role: Commercial Contract Manager
Location: London/ Hybrid (2 days/week on site)
IR35: Inside
Rate: £575/day (MAX)
Duration: 12 Months
Responsibilities:
- Post-contract award administration of a range of construction and professional service contracts
- Developing and managing variations/change control and other contract mechanisms.
- Support Senior Commercial Manager and where within experience provide commercial advice and support to relevant Stakeholders in developing commercial strategy.
- Analysis and Issue resolution - make effective decisions and risk mitigation, escalating to Senior Commercial Manager where necessary. Drive continuous improvement of processes.
- Support negotiations with suppliers to vary or change contracts, obtaining and managing input for operational colleagues and others as directed
- Comply with all Departmental controls relating to commercial practice and otherwise, including strict adherence to their delegated authorities, governance, legislation and policy as appropriate
- Support the operational project sponsors to deliver business objectives
- Use contract management systems appropriately to ensure all commercial decisions are evidenced and auditable
- Leading conflict and issue resolution with suppliers and stakeholders, seeking support from the Senior Commercial Manager where appropriate.
- Develop and maintain positive relationships with relevant stakeholders, e.g. estates, operations, finance.
- Proactively work with service providers to develop innovative commercial solutions and value-added proposals
Essential Qualifications:
- A proven track record working in the infrastructure/construction or property environment
- The ability to successfully influence senior internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrable success working as both part of a team and independently (remote-working)
Desirable Qualifications:
- Use of NEC3/NEC4 or PPC2000 forms of contract
- Client-side experience
- Regulated (Procurement Regs, OJEU) experience
- Experience working with projects of a similar scale & complexity (c.£20m schemes as a minimum)
- Lifecycle experience; pre-contract strategy, managing procurement, post-contract experience (if possible)
- Good working knowledge & experience of Procurement systems (e.g. Oracle &/or Bravo) & file management systems (e.g. 4Projects)
Disability Confident:
As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability who meet all essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all essential criteria we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Armed Forces Covenant:
CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant; we guarantee an interview for all veterans or spouses/partners of military personnel who meet all essential criteria for this vacancy. In cases where we have many ex-military candidates/military spouses or partners meeting essential criteria we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for either above please notify us on [phone number removed]. We will be in touch regarding your suitability & arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during recruitment process or if there is more accessible way for us communicate please do let me know.
To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on [phone number removed].