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Contract Manager
| Posting date: | 04 November 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 November 2025 |
| Location: | DA6 7DA |
| Company: | Kier Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 8806 |
Summary
We're looking for a Contract Manager to join our Bexley PFI Schools team based in Bexley.
Location: BexleyHours: 40 hours per week - 08:00 to 17:00
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?As a Contract Manager, you'll be working within the Bexley PFI Schools team, ensuring the effective delivery of all contractual services while maintaining strong relationships with the client and key stakeholders. You'll oversee the operational and financial performance of the contract, ensuring compliance, safety, and service excellence.
Your day to day will include:
-Managing the full delivery of the PFI contract, ensuring compliance with KPIs, SLAs, and statutory requirements
-Overseeing operational teams, subcontractors, and budgets to ensure cost efficiency and performance excellence
-Building and maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships to ensure satisfaction and contract retention
-Leading and developing the contract team, fostering collaboration, wellbeing, and a high-performance culture
-Monitoring and reporting on contract performance, financials, and quality assurance activities
What are we looking for?This role of Contract Manager is great for you if:
-You have proven experience in Facilities Management, ideally within a PFI environment
-You hold relevant industry qualifications (IOSH, CSCS, Asbestos Awareness, Fire Safety)
-You have strong leadership and communication skills, with experience managing multidisciplinary teams
-You possess sound knowledge of statutory compliance, building services, and health & safety legislation
-You're financially astute, with experience managing budgets, P&L responsibility, and contract reporting
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier
Location: BexleyHours: 40 hours per week - 08:00 to 17:00
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?As a Contract Manager, you'll be working within the Bexley PFI Schools team, ensuring the effective delivery of all contractual services while maintaining strong relationships with the client and key stakeholders. You'll oversee the operational and financial performance of the contract, ensuring compliance, safety, and service excellence.
Your day to day will include:
-Managing the full delivery of the PFI contract, ensuring compliance with KPIs, SLAs, and statutory requirements
-Overseeing operational teams, subcontractors, and budgets to ensure cost efficiency and performance excellence
-Building and maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships to ensure satisfaction and contract retention
-Leading and developing the contract team, fostering collaboration, wellbeing, and a high-performance culture
-Monitoring and reporting on contract performance, financials, and quality assurance activities
What are we looking for?This role of Contract Manager is great for you if:
-You have proven experience in Facilities Management, ideally within a PFI environment
-You hold relevant industry qualifications (IOSH, CSCS, Asbestos Awareness, Fire Safety)
-You have strong leadership and communication skills, with experience managing multidisciplinary teams
-You possess sound knowledge of statutory compliance, building services, and health & safety legislation
-You're financially astute, with experience managing budgets, P&L responsibility, and contract reporting
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier
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Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.