Contract Manager

Ian Williams seeks an experienced Contract Manager for our Response and Maintenance business, based in Bolton.
As Contract Manager, you will support the business in offering our employees a great place to work, providing them with the opportunity to develop their careers and fulfil their potential. Acknowledging our trade's importance and our commitment and investment to direct delivery is paramount. Therefore, we seek like-minded individuals to share in this vision.
Benefits:
Be part of the company profit share scheme (12% of base salary achieved last year)
Car allowance of £6500 with a private mileage scheme and fuel card
Let us help you prepare for your future with an enhanced employer pension contribution of up to 7% OR a savings scheme
Life, Medical and Permanent Health Insurance
Annual leave, but you may want longer or less, so buy up to 5 days or sell up to 3 days per year
Access to an employee assistance program to support employee’s health and wellbeing, and free financial and legal advice.
The Contract Manager role:
Incentivising and motivating directly employed labour whilst occasionally engaging and managing subcontractors for specialist works.
Instilling ownership and responsibility in your teams (Supervisor, Foreperson, Tradespersons) to support the successful delivery of response works to the expected standards, on time and to budget, whilst always ensuring that customer satisfaction and KPIs are achieved.
Ensuring and enforcing Health and Safety measures are in place and monitored.
Build internal relationships with all teams and with the client; we encourage commercial and operational teams to work closely to ensure a successful and collaborative delivery.
Producing and analysing reports to ensure the team is meeting client SLAs and KPIs and to measure the performance on the contract you are responsible for.
What will I bring to the Contract Manager role?
Relevant experience in managing direct trade teams from a similar role/environment and industry.
Your ability to multitask, find tangible, workable solutions and manage several KPI variables so that targets are achieved via our delivery model.
A sound working knowledge of Health and Safety requirements. An SMSTS is preferred but not essential.
An understanding of the impact that operations can have on cost and risk management
A trade background (all trades considered to NVQ level 2 or equivalent) is preferred but not essential.
Additional benefits:
Annual pay reviews
Enhanced maternity/ paternity pay
Training and development opportunities
Trade discounts from our preferred suppliers for you and your friends and family
Specsavers vouchers
For more information on all other additional benefits, please visit our website.
About Ian Williams Ltd:
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We reserve the right to shortlist prior to the closing date based on application volumes.
Ian Williams is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity is more than a commitment at Ian Williams—it is the foundation of what we do. We are fully focused on equality and believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, and all other characteristics that make us different.
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