Senior Contract Manager
| Posting date: | 29 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £38,860 to £46,750 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £38,860-£42,765. London: £42,495-£46,750 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 August 2024 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 363384/6 |
Summary
- Building Digital UK (BDUK) is a department borne out of the desire to improve the broadband landscape in the United Kingdom, helping to ensure residents and businesses all across the country have access to affordable broadband services, by encouraging competitive markets, responsible business practices and offering viable solutions to previously-unviable areas of business.
- The successful candidate will drive contract management activity across the Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy (GIS) programme. This will consist of in-life contract and supplier management, ensuring delivery of gigabit capable infrastructure to agreed funding, ensuring effective risk management of delivery to contract terms and exit management.
- The BDUK Contract Management team is a friendly and welcoming team, which includes people with a diverse range of skills and experience and the opportunity to contribute towards commercial activities which help to directly enrich countless lives. Both the team and the wider Civil Service network represents a phenomenal opportunity to improve your own commercial skills through significant learning and development opportunities.
Own and manage key strategic GIS contracts and the relationships with suppliers to ensure robust management of delivery against the parties' obligations under the contract. Be the expert in the contractual terms and conditions.
Initiate and maintain the Contract Management Plan (CMP) and ensure all stakeholders manage their obligations under the contract, including areas such as risk management, exit planning, Modern Slavery compliance and business continuity.
Agree Social Value KPIs within the first 2 months of a contract being signed. Ensure all Social Value obligations are understood by the supplier and lead on making certain those obligations are delivered.
Lead on KPI performance and reporting on a quarterly basis for Cabinet Office and a monthly basis for internal board review. Analyse performance data and report on Key Performance Indicators for the GIS programme.
Challenge suppliers, when necessary, on costs and commercial assumptions and lead discussions with suppliers when reviewing their submitted reports, whilst always driving innovation to ensure value for money.
Track spend, savings, supplier performance and continuous improvement across the team. Driving commercial opportunities to deliver value for money and/or savings; Manage supplier distress / failure monitoring and sub-contractor schedule updates to support the SRM reporting process.
Manage supplier engineering difficulty discussions and proactive consolidation of relief cases. Lead on all intervention area de-scope discussions and requests using a standard document template to capture all exhaustive supplier and Authority actions.
Ensure standardised, auditable documentation across the contracts through e.g. maintaining the obligations tracker and contract change log.
Identify and manage risk for the Authority, including developing and implementing mitigation strategies. Lead monthly internal risk review meetings and quarterly external risk review meetings. Ensure reporting of some key contract risks to the Head of Commercial Contracts and the programme risk monitoring platform for Cabinet Office review.
Identify and manage contractual issues, escalating where necessary. Present complex contractual issues to internal and external senior stakeholders, such as BDUK Deputy Directors, to gain support for mitigating actions, including recommendations to use or not use available contractual mechanisms.