Senior Contracts Manager

Opportunity: Senior Contracts Manager
Salary: £75 - £ 83 per hr (inside IR35)
Location: Hybrid Burghfield
Contract Duration: 18 months

We are currently looking for a Senior Contracts Manager for our government client. This Senior Contracts Manager role is hybrid, based between 1-2 days per week on site in Burghfield, near Reading. The remainder of the week is based working remotely.

The contract for the Senior Network Engineer position is initially for 18 months with potential to extend, offering an hourly rate within the range of £ 75 to £ 83.18, operating inside IR35.

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This role is inside IR35 - Due to the service of the role, it will now be based on an Umbrella solution.

Role Profile/Responsibilities:

• Experience in a high pressure environment
• Private sector experience
• Large, complicated programmes
• Challenging stakeholder management
• Negotiations with suppliers
• Experience of proposing solutions
• High visibility role
• Seasoned individual
• Attendance at supplier locations
• NEC experience and construction experience is a bonus
• 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 company 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, make corrective action plans for the identified risks.
• Develop and implement Supplier Strategies for assigned key suppliers.
• Ensuring legal compliance with contracts by monitoring changes in laws or regulations
  
• Ensure there is an effective contract reporting and engagement strategy in place
  
• Ensure contracts are delivered in accordance with business management system, priorities and conduct internal audits to ensure compliance
• Support the development and drive the implementation of Supplier Strategies for assigned suppliers
• Support procurement activity through providing best practice contact advice to develop contract templates and bespoke terms.
• Ensuring contracts maximise value for money and have defined performance outcomes.
• Working with the SCM Delivery Unit Sourcing/Category team to lead contract negotiations pre-contract award
  
• Leading contract negotiations and apply diplomacy to mitigate contract risks
• Implementing the Supplier Relationship Management framework and strategy
  

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