Contract And Account Manager

About the role

Are you an ambitious and inspirational individual with the capability to make a difference to people’s lives?

Then we want to hear from you!

Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for a Contract Manager to support our Contracts Team . This is a unique opportunity to be part of an established high performing team with an outstanding reputation for leading the way in our Adult’s Commissioning Directorate.

Can you rise to the challenge? If you have the passion for putting social care at the heart of everything you do and the ambition to help shape our future, we would love to hear from you.

If you would welcome this new challenge then apply online today or, for an informal discussion about the role, contact Gurdev Singh by email  at  gurdev.singh@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or telephone 01480 37672​.

Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of a Standard Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Interviews are planned to be held during the first two weeks of April 2024.

What will you be doing?

The successful candidate will:

• lead the Contract Management and Monitoring function to drive value for money and quality from commissioned services establishing whether better outcomes can be achieved working in partnership with Commissioning, Safeguarding and to address key areas.

• work in partnership with Commissioners to provide robust intelligence and ensuring contribution to appropriate service specifications, contract management arrangements, performance and quality monitoring arrangements and evaluation processes, and ensure key roles therein are identified as accountable for this. 

• line manage a small number of Contract Managers / Monitoring Officers to ensure resource is allocated in a way which meets the need and ensures the team is operating within legislative requirements and the corporate procurement policy and contracts regulations of the Council.

• Manage the contract management function for the selected portfolio as the single point of access to the marker and establish necessary professional relationships with both internal and external stakeholders in order to maximise opportunities to deliver quality and efficiencies and promote effective change across the system.

• Play an active role in supporting delivery of services across the Adults, Health and Commissioning Directorate as part of the departmental team.

About you

The successful candidate will:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Have a good knowledge and understanding of the contract management process
• Have a good knowledge and understanding of the adult social care provider market
• Experience of working/negotiating with partner agencies, providers independent/voluntary sector providers
• Experience of commissioning, procurement and contract management and developing innovative and successful services in a demanding multi-agency environment
• Experience of providing advice to operational and senior managers within a large diverse organisation

Our benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:

• Flexible working
• Flexible Bank Holidays
• A comprehensive wellbeing package
• Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
• A comprehensive pension scheme.
• IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
• Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
• An employee recognition scheme

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off.   We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.  We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. 

https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers

Attached documents

• Contract and Account Manager (2).docx