Senior Contract Manager

8 hours ago

Reading Berkshire, United Kingdom Aspect Resources Full time

Role: Senior Contract Manager Location: Aldermaston/Hybrid (1 day/week onsite)
Security Clearance: SC
Knowledge and application of Public Procurement Policy
• Commercial contract drafting
• Working with Legal
Commercial contract drafting
• Knowledge and application of Public Procurement Policy
• Working with Legal
• Creating a highly motivated, skilled, and professional contract management team that delivers contract performance outcomes, aligned to business and HMG commercial requirements, with the capacity to meet business demand plan.
• Act as subject matter expert for assigned contracts, providing professional advice to enable business to effectively deliver contract objectives.
• Ensuring all contracts, they are responsible for, have a robust Contract Management Plan with defined procedure for delivery performance management, invoice applications, risk management and contract reviews.
• Ensure contracts are delivered in accordance with business management system, priorities and conduct internal audits to ensure compliance with government regulations and legislation.
• Working collaboratively with stakeholders and with the SCM sub-unit Leadership Team (specifically the Head of Strategic Sourcing/the Head of Category Management) to understand their detailed business requirements and championing contract best practice. Influence key decision makers to secure best contract solutions to satisfy Board and HMG requirements.
• Implement the Supplier Relationship Management framework for assigned key suppliers who have a significant impact on the business, with the objective of managing risk, managing performance, and extracting more value from the supplier base.
• Support the development and drive the implementation of Supplier Strategies for assigned suppliers, with the objective of minimizing risk for the business and maximizing value.
• Ensuring contracts maximise value for money and have defined performance outcomes. Ensuring all contracts have clear business ownership to track and monitor contract performance against KPIs and cost, quality, and time obligations.
• Working with the SCM Delivery Unit Sourcing/Category team to lead contract negotiations pre-contract award and apply lessons learned to enhance contracting models and support supplier selection.
• Leading contract negotiations and apply diplomacy to mitigate contract risks to the businesses benefit and where necessary develop contract litigation strategies.
• Implementing the Supplier Relationship Management framework and strategy for defined portfolio of contracts, creating trusted industry alliances to drive business innovation/efficiencies and developing optimum systems of business intelligence and relationships.
Acting as a role model for health, safety, environmental and quality management. Ensure contracts are aligned to business safety and quality management systems and be an advocate of organisation behaviours.
• Establishing a high level of credibility and manage complex working relationships with internal and external parties including both commercial and government partners.
• Drive suppliers segmentation (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the Supplier Relationship Management Framework and drive SRM implementation, in collaboration with business stakeholders, for assigned suppliers
• Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including Quality, Environmental & Health and Safety, supplier fragility as well as dependency, make corrective action plans for the identified risks.
• Ensuring legal compliance with contracts by monitoring changes in laws or regulations that may affect the company's ability to meet its obligations and mitigate any potential conflict of interest or breach of company ethic's policy.
• Ensure there is an effective contract reporting and engagement strategy in place to enable all key stakeholders to be aligned to contracts risks and opportunities.
• Identify and estimate the likelihood and impact of contract-related risk, establish mitigation methods aligned to business needs and track effectiveness of those mitigations.
• Disability Confident
As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Role: Senior Contract ManagerLocation: Aldermaston/Hybrid (1 day/week onsite) IR35: InsideRate: £83.Knowledge and application of Public Procurement Policy•Commercial contract drafting•Familiar with T&Cs, drafting, amending•Working with LegalEssential•Active SC Clearance•Commercial contract drafting•Familiar with T&Cs, drafting, amending•Knowledge and application of Public Procurement Policy•Working with Legal•Favourable if experience in complex security environments•MCIPs or equivalentDesirable•Security or defence background•Infra and/or NEC experienceKey Accountabilities:•Creating a highly motivated, skilled, and professional contract management team that delivers contract performance outcomes, aligned to business and HMG commercial requirements, with the capacity to meet business demand plan.•Act as subject matter expert for assigned contracts, providing professional advice to enable business to effectively deliver contract objectives.•Ensuring all contracts, they are responsible for, have a robust Contract Management Plan with defined procedure for delivery performance management, invoice applications, risk management and contract reviews.•Ensure contracts are delivered in accordance with business management system, priorities and conduct internal audits to ensure compliance with government regulations and legislation.•Working collaboratively with stakeholders and with the SCM sub-unit Leadership Team (specifically the Head of Strategic Sourcing/the Head of Category Management) to understand their detailed business requirements and championing contract best practice. Influence key decision makers to secure best contract solutions to satisfy Board and HMG requirements.•Implement the Supplier Relationship Management framework for assigned key suppliers who have a significant impact on the business, with the objective of managing risk, managing performance, and extracting more value from the supplier base.•Support the development and drive the implementation of Supplier Strategies for assigned suppliers, with the objective of minimizing risk for the business and maximizing value.•

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