Supplier Contracts Manager
| Posting date: | 03 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £42,665 to £50,495 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £42,665 - £46,765 London: £46,060 - £50,495 For details of our pay on appointment policy, please see below under he heading ‘Salary’. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 October 2025 |
| Location: | Belfast |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 430459/1 |
Summary
UK pEPR will require obligated packaging producers to pay the full costs of managing the packaging for which they are responsible. It will incentivise them to use less unnecessary packaging and encourage sustainable design, production and use of packaging; and it will work to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of collection and recycling services thereby ensuring the supply of sufficient good quality recycled materials.
The administrator will bring together a diverse team of talented individuals who are passionate about recycling, sustainability and the wider contributions this can make to our environmental objectives, including reaching net zero by 2050 while boosting the economy.
Role Purpose
As Supplier Contracts Manager you will provide strategic support to SRM, enabling best in class approaches monitoring and contract management functions on behalf of PackUK. You will support the SSRM closely to build critical relationships with commercial professions across Defra, Devolved Governments and other government departments.
You will be comfortable operating in a complex, fast paced and changing environment, ensuring the provision of an effective commercial function to Devolved Governments and Governance forums that drives business outcomes through excellent service and strong stakeholder relationships.
You will be comfortable working at pace but also able to lead your team to deliver. This role exposes you to a broad range of duties, working to support key business areas and inform strategic and operational decisions. You will need to be skilled at listening, interpreting, influencing, negotiating, inspiring and challenging, which are all vital to the role.
Key Responsibilities
- Working directly with Contract managers to ensure that contractual deliverables are tracked and that all data is fed into Power BI via excel to populate a client dashboard / scorecard.
- Providing regular Supplier Contract Analysis, supporting the SSRM on strategic contracts and tendering activities.
- Implementing and monitoring systems to capture and review supplier performance, including KPI’s, milestones and service objectives.
- Work with key stakeholders and suppliers to meet agreed targets and contractual arrangements.
- Maintain relationships with stakeholders who are party to the contracts of strategic suppliers.
- Maintain a strong working relationship with key Supplier’s to facilitate delivery of high-quality performance in both cost and service.
- Making strategic recommendations based on actual performance data to drive out effective delivery from all suppliers.
- Advise and support the SSRM and other key stakeholders, responding accurately with reference to contractual issues in a timely manner.
- Develop and implement a robust Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) framework.
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