Senior Contracts Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a skilled contract management team to deliver on business and government objectives.
• Act as a role model for health, safety, environmental, and quality management, ensuring contracts align with safety standards and behaviours.
• Establish and maintain credible, complex relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including commercial and government partners.
• Drive supplier segmentation (quality, performance, risk) and implement Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) for key suppliers.
• Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (quality, safety, environmental, and dependency risks) and develop corrective action plans.
• Ensure contract control systems support post-contract commitments and governance processes.
• Ensure legal compliance by monitoring changes in laws or regulations, mitigating conflicts of interest or breaches of ethics.
• Develop and implement Supplier Strategies to optimize value and mitigate risks.
• Lead contract negotiations, manage challenging stakeholder relationships, and track contract performance against KPIs.
• NEC and construction experience is beneficial, though not required.
• Operate in a high-pressure environment; private sector and large programme experience is an advantage.

If you have the desired skill set and experience then it would be great to hear from you. Please get in touch with your CV and we can arrange a call.