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Senior Contracts Manager

August 17, 2022 | Comments Off on Senior Contracts Manager

Be critical to our success in Kier Places, and join the Facilities Management team maintaining schools & local authority buildings in your area.

Senior Contracts Manager, PFI FM

Location: Based out of our Sheffield or Oldham sites, with travel to other offices and sites across Yorkshire & London, with home working available

Business Area: Kier Places - Facilities Management - PFI North contracts, including Oldham Schools, Oldham Library & Sheffield Schools

Contract & hours: Permanent, full time - Monday to Friday, 40 hours per week

Kier Places are recruiting now for a Senior Contract Manager to join our PFI Facilities Management North teams in Sheffield & Oldham, to manage the delivery of a PFI Soft, Hard & Technical FM solution for our portfolio of prestigious contracts including Oldham Schools & Library, Sheffield Schools, and London Fire Brigade, where we'll look to you to lead the strategy for the region, working in close conjunction with internal, client stakeholders & various subcontractors, progressively developing the operations teams to meet contract growth requirements and client expectations.

We'll look to you to manage compliance standards across the contracts, assisting and supporting the operational management teams as instructed, and providing visibility to the business and client of all operational compliance obligations required. Specific areas of compliance include legal, technical (M&E, Water, Gas, etc), industry best practice, contractual, SLA/KPI, SIA, Quality Assurance, Environmental, and Health & Safety.

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Contract Manager with Kier FM, you'll be trusted to be the first point of contact for the PFI portfolio of contracts; oversee the lifecycle management and operational performance; provide leadership and direction to your teams; and ensure processes and procedures comply with SLAs & KPIs performance targets and meet all the contractual requirements.

As a focused Senior Contract Manager, we'll look to you to manage financial performance of the contracts, where you'll set financial budgets, oversee contract variations, review the P&L, and ensure it aligns to our forecast; keep the Operations Manager informed of all potential issues that have implications on finance, performance or health & safety; conduct regular audits, including site documentation, to ensure compliance measures are met; and ensure all operational, contractual, performance, health & safety, compliance and financial management reports are submitted in line with Kier reporting and contract requirements.

Working collaboratively, you'll ensure development of client relationship between all key personnel; ensure excellent working relationships are developed between all departments including Health & Safety, Compliance, Finance, HR and Training; promote & ensure Quality, Health, Safety & Environmental compliance in line with Kier policies and legal requirements across all contracts; and undertake other duties, tasks or reasonable requirements associated with contract, customer management and performance improvement.

What do we need from you?

Is this your opportunity for the taking? To be a Senior Contract Manager with Kier, you should have previous experience of managing multiple contracts in a PFI/PPP sector, including strong understanding of the client, commercial, contractual & compliance requirements in a PFI environment; experience in hard & soft services facilities management environment; and strong working knowledge of hard services regulations & requirements.

To make the most of this role, you'll have the ability to promote best practice by utilising efficient management practices; have excellent communication skills at all stakeholder levels; and have relevant management and facilities management qualifications for hard and soft FM services, including IOSH accreditation.

Due to the nature of this role, you should hold a full driving licence & be willing to travel across the Yorkshire region, as well as to other offices & sites primarily including Basingstoke & London.

Who are we?

Part of Kier Places, our facilities management teams provide planned and reactive property maintenance services in thousands of buildings around the UK. From central and local government buildings through to hospitals and fire stations, the work that we do supporting vital infrastructure means we can offer you a role that will challenge and reward you, every single day.

At Kier, we're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

You can expect a competitive salary and an outstanding package that includes a company car or allowance, private healthcare, a matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays together with two employee Share Scheme options (Sharesave and Share Incentive Plan).

Some of our other benefits include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies with 8 weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, and important guidance on the menopause and the support we can offer

  • Kier's Green Car Scheme

  • 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, as well as 4x Life Assurance as standard, with the option for Partner Life Assurance cover

  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands

Find out more here about the great rewards and benefits we offer our employees.

Delivering contracts. Creating communities. Developing careers. Join us today as a Senior Contract Manager.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with criminal convictions will be treated on a case-by-case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's criminal record or the details of any offences disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre-employment checks.

Kier is committed to creating supportive and inclusive opportunities for all our applicants and employees. We appreciate applicants from all backgrounds and we specifically encourage those from underrepresented communities to apply. Take a look here to learn more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion. If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please let us know so we can discuss and arrange these by emailing InclusiveRecruitment@kier.co.uk.

Closing Date: 15th September 2022

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

Recruitment agencies - we are unable to accept unsolicited CVs and communications from external recruiters. The recruitment team will engage with agencies who have signed up to our PSL should we require assistance. For further information, visit our careers help page.

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