Waterman Aspen
Contract Manager
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Make a Real Impact – Shape the Future of Infrastructure
At Waterman Group, we’re not just delivering projects, we’re shaping a more sustainable, intelligent, and resilient built environment. This is more than a technical role, it’s your chance to lead, influence and be part of a business committed to innovation, net-zero outcomes, and meaningful transformation.
Purpose of Role
The Contract Manager at Waterman Group plays a pivotal role in driving the financial and strategic success of multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consultancy projects. This role is responsible for overseeing commercial operations, ensuring profitability, and managing risk across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure, urban regeneration, and sustainability-focused developments.
Working collaboratively with project teams, clients, and stakeholders, the Contract Manager ensures that contracts are effectively managed, and commercial opportunities are maximised.
Essential Criteria
Qualifications & Professional Memberships
- Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, and / or Civil Engineering or a relevant discipline, or relevant equivalent experience.
- NEC4 ECC Project Accreditation - Essential
- Prince2, or APM Project Management Qualification would be desirable.
- Chartered membership of an appropriate professional institution.
Experience
- Fully understands the NEC, JCT, and ACE forms of contract including pricing options, with a particular emphasis on the PSC document in the NEC suite both short and long form and the differences in NEC 3 and 4 and the commercial differences between each.
- Ability to develop others and enable exposure of challenging packages of work throughout the wider team, sharing skills and experience.
- Able to run regular workshops with the wider Waterman Group teams upskilling colleagues regarding payment and the NEC in general.
- Demonstrable working understanding, knowledge, and experience of NEC Contracts, Methods of measurement, Change control under NEC and General finance / payment processes in particular issuing and tracking all Early Warning Notices and Compensation Events.
- Background working with multi-disciplinary teams across clients, contractors, and sub-consultants.
- Ability to understand the payment and variation mechanisms of bespoke client appointments (usually drafted by client lawyers) to ensure we are paid timeously and in the event of default of payment we have a clear contractual route to recovery.
- An understanding of the payment’s provisions of the Construction Act.
- Working for/with contractors as well as clients/employers, and other members of the supply chain.
- Proven experience of leading, inspiring, motivating, influencing and managing performance of a team.
- Evidence of having developed commercial opportunities, models, and activities.
- Experience of developing strong, effective, and beneficial relationships both internal and external to the organisation.
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Knowledge
- Knowledge of approaches to achieve broad skills development and cultural change.
- Strong understanding of commercial practices, tools, techniques, and approach and how these can be embedded into processes and organisational culture. In-depth and full understanding of the NEC, JCT, and ACE (not as regularly used) and the emphasis on the professional services documents in the various suites.
- Experience of working project management and scheduling tools including Primavera P6 or MS Project for programme and contingency planning. Together with familiarity with common data environments such as A-Site, CEEMAR, Fastdraft, or Asset Management Software.
- Basic legal knowledge relevant to appointments.
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Skills & Competencies
- Ability to engage successfully across a range of stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
- Demonstrable experience of sound judgement, awareness of external environment, and astuteness. Able to constructively challenge and substantiate decisions. Able to negotiate positively.
- Clarity of thought, ability to think and translate ideas into realised benefits across the organisation.
- Understanding and application of risk protocols commensurate to the activity. Able to bring in relevant risk appetite to achieve outcomes.
- Strong ownership and self-belief to confidently overcome barriers and explain principles and decisions to a broad range of stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills – verbal, written, active listening – and the ability to adapt style as needed.
Why Join Us?
- Deliver projects that shape communities and contribute to the net-zero agenda.
- Develop your leadership profile while mentoring others and influencing strategy.
- Be part of a collaborative team that values expertise, curiosity, and integrity.
- We value work-life balance and support flexible arrangements.
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