Contracts Manager

My client are a successful financial services company. Due to continued expansion, they are seeking a Contracts Manager to join their Operations team on a full-time, permanent basis.

Contracts Manager - Key Responsibilities:

• Build key relationships in order to best support the Sales team with contract negotiations.
• Ensure contracts are produced, dispatched and returned in a timely manner
• Maintenance of key records including third party contracts, and contracts with business partners

·Working with the recruitment team, ensuring all vacancies are filled within the required timescale and meet the quality standards set.

• Co-ordinate with various stakeholders in order to ensure a smooth transition on changes made within the network.
• Creating and analysing statistics.
• Manage effective communication within your remit ensuring all key messages and initiatives are delivered, received, understood, and acted upon
• Ensure accurate and consistent communication is maintained internally by working closely with all departments and the senior team
• Assisting with the set up and running of key business wide projects
• Manage selected introducer contracts
• Ad-Hoc project work as required to support Operations Director
• Identify and escalate systemic issues
• Liaise with Advisers, Business Owners, MAB staff providing them with guidance on procedures, interpretation of regulations and company policy to ensure adherence within set parameters
• Maintain and manipulate spreadsheets, maintaining audit trails and producing reports

Contracts Manager – The Candidate:

• A solid understanding of contracts and commercial agreements.
• Excellent relationship building skills
• A methodical, logical approach with a keen eye for detail
• The ability to work to challenging targets and deadlines and to maintain the quality of results whilst under pressure
• Dynamic, solution oriented approach
• The ability to prioritise workloads and work to tight deadlines
• Able to work well as an individual and as part of a team
• Self-motivated with a positive and "can-do" attitude
• IT skills and advanced experience with Word, Excel, PowerPoint 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A meticulous attention to detail
• Experience in financial services would be advantageous but is not essential.

In return this company can offer a competitive salary and benefits package and a supportive and sociable working environment.