Senior Contract Manager

Job Title: Senior Contract Manager

Location: Hybrid – Homebased and based at the office in Melbourn (S68) with regular travel within the East of England

Hourly Pay Rate/Salary: £26.06 per hour/£50,952 per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week

Length of the contract: Until 31st March 2024

Gi Group are now seeking to appoint an experienced Senior Contract Manager to our Public Sector client based in Melbourn. The Senior Contract Manager will be responsible for providing strategic and tactical contracting leadership to the Operations Support Team, alongside delivering and managing a portfolio of contracts and information processes, and ensuring successful delivery of provider contracts commissioned by the organisation, to time and budget.

Duties of the Senior Contract Manager

• Responsible for the overall leadership and management of a portfolio of contracts, including supporting negotiation of contracts, interpreting and monitoring of contracts, issuing and monitoring variations, schedules, and SLAs, and providing integrated reports linking finance and activity, advising on risks and contract levers.
• Responsible for analysing and interpreting both quantitative and qualitative finance, performance, and business intelligence information, in order to arrive at judgements on performance of contracts, and the scale and scope of any necessary improvement action.
• Work with commissioners and providers, as required, to develop information to support robust financial settlements, reviews of financial risk, mitigating action plans and monitoring the impact of these plans. Work with the provider to agree improvement action, monitor its impact and report to colleagues on progress/achievement.
• Manage the organisation’s contracting information processes ensuring that they are consistent with national policy and local need and can be integrated into the wider commissioning service development strategies. This will require the post holder to provide high level support to commissioners in provider contract negotiation meetings and routine information monitoring meetings.
• Review and interpret management reports on all contractual SLAs, providing intelligence on linkage between finance, activity and contracts, within the organisation’s overall portfolio.
• Recommend solutions to problems and remedial actions that can be taken in line with contract provisions. Identify areas of high contractual financial risk for the organisation, and advise and recommend how these can be mitigated.
• Interpret and convey complex information to a range of organisation and system staff. This may be in the form of formal presentations, leading meetings or one-to-one discussions on a range of issues, including briefing, negotiating, and problem solving.
• Develop and maintain excellent relationships with all stakeholders, using highly developed negotiating and influencing skills in order to secure optimum service levels, working in circumstances where there may be resistance to change.
• Provide detailed management and performance reports in a timely manner for inclusion in the monthly corporate reports for the organisation against Key Performance Indicators, in a format that enables complex information to be easily understood.
• Responsible for the day-to-day range of staff management matters, which will include responsibility for supporting appraisals, development of staff, recruitment and, where necessary, processes such as grievance and disciplinary matters.

Role Criteria

• Educated to Postgraduate Level or equivalent work-related experience.
• Understanding of background to, and aims of, current health care policy, both at national and local levels.
• Specific knowledge of relevant contractual frameworks.
• Well-developed negotiating and relationship building skills.
• Ability to interpret detailed quantitative information and produce reports.
• Extensive knowledge of contract management and cost improvement.
• Ability to interpret multiple financial, analytical, and contract data to construct a compelling narrative for clients.
• Strong leadership abilities, including ability to chair and command complex meetings.
• Public sector experience and knowledge.

Hiring Contact: Tiegan Clark

Agency: Gi Group