AddressThis is an exciting opportunity to lead an ambitious and forward-thinking team of contract and commissioning experts delivering across Highways and Transport. You will be leading on the management of 4 significant contracts and frameworks coordinating annual plans with our supply chain in excess of c.£100 million per annum. You will have the opportunity to shape our newly procured contract management system, create positive relationships with our supply chain partners and develop a growing team of contract and commercial expertise through our trainee progression scheme.
Cambridgeshire County Council is an ambitious County Council seeking to continually develop and enhance our contracts and commissioning function, which operates across all programmes and budgets. We invest in our people through training and recognise a work/life balance is essential to maintain a positive health and wellbeing culture.
We would really like to hear from you should you be considering a new start or seeking a new challenge with Cambridgeshire County Council. I would welcome a relaxed and informal conversation should you have any questions before applying, please contact me Michael.williams@cambridgeshire.gov.uk, please provide a telephone number that I can contact you on.
Applications should be in the form of an up to date CV and covering letter (no more than two pages) explaining how you meet the essential and desirable criteria for the role.
What will you be doing?In this role, you will be:
- Leading a team of commercial and contract experts
- Driving a positive health, safety and wellbeing culture throughout Highways and Transport
- Developing positive relationships with our supply chain partners
- Looking at out processes and procedures and driving a digital by default way of working
- Ensuring Highways and Transport has a commercially astute client team that is continually upskilled
- Ensuring we comply with our contract terms and corporate policies
- Working with the Assistant Director to consider our operating model and contracts of the future
- Continually developing our people and promoting the career progression and apprenticeship schemes
I this role, you will require:
- Experience and qualification(s) in a highways and contract management discipline
- Experience of managing an New Engineering Contract (NEC)
- Experience of managing high performing teams
- Understanding of local government and a civil engineering sector
- An ability to create relationships across a diverse stakeholder base to achieve the best possible outcomes
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
Our benefitsWe 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
