Contract Management - Centre of Excellence Specialist

It is an exciting time to join us!

There has never been a better time to join us than now. Whilst Southern Water is a mature organisation, we are currently going through key transformational programmes therefore joining us will offer you windows of opportunity in this highly enterprising role.

As the Contract Management Centre of Excellence Specialist you will be part of the business-wide transformation of defining and executing Contract Management capability within Southern Water. You will play a critical role in promoting adoption of best practice, monitoring compliance, and accelerating the standardisation of contract management across the organisation.

You will support the development of an overarching Contract Lifecycle Management framework, including processes, tools, templates and training that can be used to leverage Contract Management capability across the business. As a confident communicator, you will act as a direct conduit to contract management teams and other key stakeholders in supporting the Centre of Excellence communications and knowledge management.

Your presence will provide support with management and administrative actives required for the development of the Centre of Excellence, bringing subject matter expertise to contract managers and key stakeholders. Maintaining a community of practice to share contract management best practice you will facilitate continuous improvement to meet changing demands.

You will have previous contract management experience and be adept at gathering and analysing data. You will use your excellent communications skills to develop and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders.
This is a great opportunity to gain insight across the business with good visibility to senior stakeholders and business wide transformation. This offers the chance to play a key role in developing new organisational capability and further develop your skills and knowledge in contract management.

If you want to refine your existing skills and experience in a role that supports your personal career development, why not apply now to hear more about us and the role?

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

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