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Salary About the role
The Contracts and Supplier Relationship Manager will lead the delivery of exceptionally high-quality, robust, and strategically managed legal investigations contracts for the NMC. This role involves managing high value contracts, ensuring financial controls are in place, and overseeing strong contract performance. Caseload reduction is a key objective, requiring effective management of external legal providers. Additionally, the role involves initiating and delivering Supplier Relationship Management initiatives to foster positive and trusting relationships with suppliers, ensuring value for money.
Key Accountabilities:
Lead and be accountable for all contract management and Supplier Relationship Management activities for legal investigations contracts.
Implement and embed recognized contract management and SRM methodologies, ensuring high standards are maintained throughout the contract's life.
Lead dialogue/negotiations with suppliers, consolidating stakeholder feedback, and working in collaboration with the internal procurement team.
Implement robust budget management in accordance with NMC finance policy, ensuring efficient purchase-to-pay activities.
Establish and maintain risk registers, ensuring appropriate mitigation and reporting to management as required.
Proactively manage contract performance, track KPIs and SLAs, and report to senior managers, taking remedial action when necessary.
About You
With proven public sector contract management experience, you will be able to lead on the above key responsibilities occasionally working autonomously. You will be an experienced negotiator who is able to evidence key judgments in the negotiation of a wide range of contracts. Ideally you will bring experience of working with legal contracts either from an inhouse perspective or from partnering with law forms. Its desirable but not essential that you would have knowledge of professional regulation.
