Contract Management Hr Services

Overview of Responsibilities

This role can be based at the following site; Culham, Oxfordshire.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

The Role

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Contract Management for HR service, you will play a pivotal role in:

• Assuming ownership and accountability for commercial Contract Management in People and Culture for HR Services, including a possible migration to a Contingent Labour Solutions Framework.
• Leading the delivery of significant contracts, working with Procurement Business Partners for commercial support.
• Working  collaboratively with Talent Acquisition, Procurement and other UKAEA functions to identifying niche skills for Fusion.
• Writing detailed Scope of Works for tender packs and set up a monitoring frameworks with objectives, Key Performance Indicator, and Service Level Agreements for contract performance.
• Negotiating variations to contractual obligations, ensuring outcomes align with affordability constraints, mitigating contract risk, and delivering value for money.
• Managing the existing Agency Supplier Worker contract during its tapering period, lead the transformation project for the new Contingent Labour Solution Framework, and monitor the performance of the retendered Occupational Health provision contract.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Contract Management: Oversee and manage People and Culture commercial contracts, ensuring optimal value for the business.
• Strategic Resourcing Partner: Collaborate with UKAEA and Talent Acquisition to address future resourcing needs and identify ‘hard to fill’ roles.
• Support and Guidance: Provide support to People and Culture specialists on Service Level Agreements, Key Performance Indicators, commercial matters, contract interpretation, and change control.
• Transformation Leadership: Lead projects to replace existing services, ensuring stakeholder communication and organizational up-skilling.
• Supplier and Performance Management: Oversee payment assessments, supplier performance monitoring, audits, and feedback. Conduct project and risk reviews.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Ensure smooth contract transitions, engage stakeholders through workshops and presentations, and address concerns and conflicts appropriately.

Qualifications

Essential Requirements:

• Experience of identifying the requirements for contingent labour in organisations.
• Experience of working with contingent labour providers.
• Experience of preparing and managing procurement of HR services.
• Experience of managing supplier contracts and agreements.
• Experience of implementing processes to evidence performance against contract requirements .
• Experience of managing contract performance review meetings and implementing escalated performance measures.
• Evidence of dealing with multiple stakeholders with different requirements and synthesising these into contract requirements.
• Ability to read contractual, legal and regulatory documents and translate the contents for stakeholders.
• Evidence of writing lengthy, complex and highly structured documents.
• The ability to facilitate workshops and deliver presentations.
• Ability to work across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Accredited Contract Management Capability Programme to Gold level. (UKAEA will support this)

Desirable Requirements:

• Contract management qualification.
• Contract Management Tools expertise (eg CEMAR).
• Experience of working in the public sector, preferably in a Talent Acquisition or Procurement role.
• Experience of leading transformation projects.