Contract Manager

About The Role

We are looking for a motivated and experienced Contract Manager to join our Procurement team and oversee the entire lifecycle of procurement contracts from creation to termination.  

At GÉANT we enable research, education, science and innovation across the globe via our high-speed data communications networks and identity and access management solutions. Our Procurement team connects supply and demand between the market and GÉANT and, through GÉANT, the wider Research and Education community.  In this role you’ll play a pivotal role within the Procurement team, facilitating procurement processes, ensuring compliance with regulations, and fostering effective relationships with suppliers and (internal) stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for your own allocated set of contracts but you’ll also work closely with the other Contract Manager and be able to cover each other’s work when required.

Please download the job description for full details of the role and responsibilities.

We’re ideally looking for someone to work from our Cambridge office so you’ll need to have the right to work in the UK as well as live within commuting distance of the office.  This is a hybrid working role so you will need to spend at least two days in the office each week. For the right candidate, we can also consider working from our Amsterdam office. If based in Amsterdam, the role will be offered as a 1-year definite contract, with the possibility of becoming indefinite thereafter.

About You

You must have around 5 years or more experience of working in a contract management role as well as a strong understanding of procurement processes and best practice. You’ll also be proactive and self-motivated with the ability to take decisive action to drive positive outcomes. You’ll need to have: 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to work independently and take initiative while also thriving in a collaborative team environment
• Great interpersonal skills

About Us

Why work for GÉANT?  As an organisation at the heart of research and education networking, we offer talented individuals the opportunity to be part of something worthwhile. Thanks to our terabit network, 50 million researchers, scientists, academics and students can share record volumes of data unconstrained by location, solving some of humankind’s biggest challenges. Work at GÉANT and you’ll be supporting critical research into sustainable energy, deep space, high-energy physics, earth observation, environmental disasters, medicine and much more!

You’ll also receive excellent benefits including a generous holiday allowance and a 5% end of year allowance as standard.  The other benefits you receive will depend on the country you are employed in, but both include an appropriate pension scheme and medical insurance.  For full details of our benefits package please see our careers website - https://careers.geant.org/why-work-for-geant/.