Contract Manager

Job Title: Contract Manager

Location: Reading / Portsmouth / Glasgow

Salary: £39,419 - £52,055 depending on skills and experience

Permanent| Full Time Hours with flexible working patterns available | 37 hours per week

Our Role

As our Contract Manager, you'll be responsible for the commercial management and administration of contracts to ensure successful compliant delivery, in accordance with the contract and internal policies and procedures. You will also support the delivery of departmental KPIs and objectives such as savings against total cost of ownership, continuous improvement and safety performance.

You'll understand and support the development of relationships with suppliers and liaise with stakeholders on a project(s) / contract(s). You'll also support the Senior Contract Manager & the Head of Commercial Contracting in providing a world class commercial service to internal customers which includes contract management and delivery, supplier relationship management, commercial guidance, risk management, contract administration and dispute resolution. You'll be responsible for ensuring all contracts are industry leading and appropriately apportion risk between SSE and the supplier(s). You'll also work with the Performance Management team to log and implement changes to improve SSE's commercial position, which will be backed up with robust business case justification.

Your Skills and Experience

You'll understand the commercial aspects and implications of decisions made of projects / contracts and have sound knowledge of contract management theory, contract structure and documentation, the supply chain and relevant statutory and legal provisions. You'll be a highly effective negotiator and influencer with demonstrable experience of the above, supporting and leading negotiations of strategic projects/contracts with the ability to influence users outside your own sphere of responsibility. Excellent analytical skills are an absolute must for this role, coupled with the ability to interpret, summarise and challenge key performance data to allow forward planning and effective, timely decisions to be made. You'll have excellent organisation and planning skills with the ability to work to deadlines and deal with changing priorities whilst managing your own time effectively.

Our Company

Our Retail business is a market leader in supply of electricity and gas and in other energy-related services such as telecoms, broadband and boiler cover. We supply energy under our brands: SSE, SSE Scottish Hydro, SSE Southern Electric and SSE SWALEC in the Great Britain market. At SSE, we're committed to giving you excellent customer service and treating you fairly; we want to make life easier for you, find ways of saving you money, and be on hand to help when you need us the most, that's our customer promise.

Our Benefits

We have an excellent benefits package as part of our offering. Here's a few highlights;

- Generous holiday allowance (you can even buy additional holidays)

- Great share plans

- Group Pension Plan

- One day paid volunteering

- Tailored internal development opportunities

Next Steps

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Closing date for applications is: Wednesday 6 March 2019

This vacancy is open to internal and external candidates. If you're internal, please notify your line manager before you submit your application. If you're successful, we'll conduct some pre-employment checks.

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