Contract Manager
| Posting date: | 06 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £50,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £56,539 - 59,514 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 June 2024 |
| Location: | EC1N 8JS/NG9 1LA |
| Company: | Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | MTVH175712 |
Summary
Contract Manager
London or Nottingham
£56,539 – 59,514
Overall Responsibility
This management role within the Care and Support Directorate has responsibility for contributing to care and support business growth through managing the submission of tenders and Single Provider Negotiation (SPN) proposals and associated developmental work and processes.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the team’s delivery of the tender process including;
- Identifying and qualifying opportunities and allocating bid writing resources to meet the directorate’s priorities
- Leading the contract team to complete high quality tender submissions and proposals on time and to plan.
- Building strong and effective partnerships with internal and external stakeholders – in particular Finance and HR - to support completion of tenders and management of contracts.
- Preparing performance reports and papers for the Care and Support Director and Senior Leadership Team, providing updates regarding the progress of the team in meeting growth targets and to obtain approvals for individual submissions.
- Maintaining a pipeline of anticipated business growth opportunities
- Reviewing and analysing systems within the contract management team, identify requirements for business and process improvements and implement changes required.
- Developing the library of method statements and work with the Policy Process Team to inform the development of new policy and processes required to deliver compliant bids and tenders.
- Capture lessons learnt from all work completed and revise and develop the toolkit for use with similar future bids.
- Maintain awareness of good practice and sector developments, including government and regulatory changes that will affect the organisation and the work of the team.
- Embed MTVH’s vision and culture within all aspects of our work.
- Manage your own continual professional development utilising available learning resources and opportunities and own personal networks.
- From time to time you will be required to perform other duties as may be reasonably requested by your line manager
Personal Competencies
- An inspiring and visible business leader with a track record of having previously lead teams to achieve their very best through a strong performance management culture.
- Highly analytical and able to work with written statements, TUPE, Finance and management data and comfortable with setting and working to business targets, business plans, project plans and key performance indicators.
- An experienced manager with demonstrable experience in tendering for new and repeat business.
- Politically sensitive and astute with a working knowledge of Care & Support Providers, RPs, local and central government, and NHS operations.
- Successful relationship builder with stakeholders such as statutory bodies, commissioners and legal advisors,
- An excellent communicator across a wide range of audiences.
- Strong commitment to collective success
Skills/ Experience
- Excellent IT literacy
- Proven project management skills.
- Educated to degree level.
- An affinity with the work of the housing and care sector.
Desirable Criteria
- An appropriate professional qualification.
- Experience of matrix management of internal business streams.
General Responsibilities
- To understand and comply with MTVH’s safeguarding, safety and compliance policies, procedures and processes and support a positive safeguarding, safety and compliance culture across the organization.
- Actively and effectively promote the organisations corporate values of Care, Dare, Collaborate. Role modelling appropriate behaviours and acting with the highest level of professionalism and integrity.
- Play an active role in contributing to effective cross team working and provide cover for colleagues as required.
- To maintain confidentiality with personal information and data regarding our customers, employees and stakeholders at all times ensuring compliance with the Data Protection Policy.
- To comply with MTVH’s Health and Safety policies, procedures and processes and to promote health and safety compliance for all.
- To act at all times within MTVH’s policies, procedures and code of conduct and uphold MTVH’s commitment to Equality and Diversity
This profile only contains the main accountabilities relating to the job and does not describe in detail all the duties and tasks required to carry them out. You may be required to perform any reasonable tasks comparable with the level of responsibility at the request of your manager. MTVH reserves the right to alter the content of this job profile to reflect changes to the organisation or the services it provides.
Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.
What’s in it for you?
Our benefits include:-
- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
- 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
- An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
- Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
- Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
- Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
- Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
- Cycle2work scheme
- Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
- Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
- Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
- Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
- Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
- Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
- Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us
Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document
Our promise
Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.
We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.
We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- LGBTQ+
- Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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