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Contract Manager
Contract Manager & Senior Contract Manager Roles – Hybrid (Birmingham/London)
2 X Contract Manager posts – 9-month contracts (minimum), based in Birmingham or London, 3 days a week in the office.
Rate:
- Contract Manager: Up to £500 per day
- Senior Contract Manager: Up to £650 per day
- Both roles are Inside IR35
About the Roles
Both roles require experience managing a complex portfolio of corporate contracts across public sector clients, overseeing the full franchise lifecycle from mobilisation to exit. Responsibilities include:
- Ensuring value for money throughout contracts
- Monitoring and governing supplier performance
- Administering service credits & warranty claims
- Leading change requests through governance frameworks
- Resolving formal disputes
- Preparing reports and contractual documentation for senior stakeholders
For the Senior Contract Manager role, additional strategic commercial and cost-planning responsibility is crucial, with a focus on infrastructure/capital delivery programmes.
Key Responsibilities
For Both Roles
- Oversee contract mobilisation, transition, and exit navigation
- Manage contractor performance & compliance monitoring, including Early Warnings & performance plans
- Handle commercial disputes, claim resolution, and governance within governance frameworks
- Identify contractual, programme & financial risk
- Negotiate and agree contract change requests
- Ensure financial controls over supplier payments and service credits
- Engage with stakeholders & suppliers at all levels
- Manage supply chain and sub-contractor engagement
- Compile contract management plans & reporting
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For the Senior Role (Additional Focus Areas)
- Strategic commercial analysis supporting major programmes
- Cost planning & estimating for complex deliverables
- NEC contract administration for large capital/infrastructure projects
- Supplier financial health analysis
- Developing bespoke tender agreements or amend buildings
- Representing procurement interests across court/arbitration
Essential Experience & Skills
Core Requirements (Both Roles)
- Corporate contract managment – Proven experience across contract acquisition, risk, change & exit management
- Supplier performance & compliance monitoring – Including Early Warning propagation & probation stages
- Contract governance and dispute resolution – Resolving conflicts creatively under NEC3/NEC4/PCR/UCR
- Advanced commercial negotiation and claims experience – Precontraction & post-contract changes
- Cost control & financial oversight – Assessing supplier/contractor finance summaries
- Stakeholder relationship management – Large programme & supplier interaction
- Public sector delivery, preferably utilities, defence & major capital programmes
- CEMAR/SAP (contract administration) & PowerPoint/Excel experience
- UC/PCR compliance awareness to standard procurement regulations
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Senior Contract Manager Additional Experience
- NEC contract administration (ideally carbon-neutral certification)
- Cost planning for £200M+ infrastructure or major construction projects
- Complex procurement behaviours for whole life cost trail governance
- Strategic advisor role in National Programme aspects
Desirable
- Certified NEC Practitioner qualification
- MCIPS or MRICS membership
Location
Hybrid model with 3 days on-site, either:
- Birmingham HQ
- London’s London office
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