Mace
NEC Contract Manager (Construction Consultancy) - Healthcare Sector

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Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.
Transforming Healthcare Through Construction Excellence
Are you looking to partner on healthcare construction projects that deliver world-class facilities and outstanding patient environments? Our specialist team combines industry-leading expertise with a passion for healthcare innovation, ensuring your part of an incredible programme team completing projects on time, within budget, and to the highest standards. Your contribution to a multi-million-pound programme will place you at the heart of a major construction works, giving you the opportunity to shape outcomes and have a lasting impact on communities and cities.
You’ll Be Responsible For
- Protecting our client's commercial interests through effective contract management, leadership and support across the wider delivery team.
- Ensuring contractual obligations are clearly understood and consistently applied, proactively managing events to maintain programme predictability.
- Managing commercial communications in line with governance requirements, including early warning and compensation events.
- Collaborating with PMO, Planning, Risk and other integrated teams to maintain commercial best practice and informed decision making.
- Attending key client meetings, coordinating outcomes, actions and stakeholder expectations professionally.
- Communicating and managing contract variations effectively, ensuring commercial clarity before resources or capital are committed.
- Ensuring the project maintains an accurate and current estimate of total cost throughout its lifecycle.
- Supporting contractual handovers and contributing to high quality commercial reporting for project leadership.
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You’ll Need To Have
- Strong experience managing NEC contracts (ideally NEC4) within complex or regulated environments, with CEMAR experience preferred.
- Solid understanding of contract terms and conditions, ensuring they are applied consistently.
- Confident operating in client facing settings, representing Mace professionally.
- Skilled in analysing commercial data, producing reports and communicating clear insights.
- Experience working within integrated project teams, supporting or leading commercial workstreams.
- Knowledge of procurement and supply chain management in regulated sectors.
- Awareness of sustainability, carbon and social value considerations and their impact on commercial strategy.
- Degree in quantity surveying, cost management or related discipline.
- Professional membership (or working towards) such as MRICS/RICS.


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Our values
- Safety first - Going home safe and well: We champion a safe, diverse and inclusive working environment, understanding the importance of wellbeing in every team.
- Client focus - Deliver on our promise: We own the quality of deliverables, strategic outcomes and build long term relationships with our clients.
- Integrity - Always do the right thing: We influence positive outcomes within our industry, while always aligning with our compliance obligations.
- Create opportunity - For our people to excel: We champion a continuous improvement culture throughout all activities, inspiring our people and teams to develop.
Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates. Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.
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