Contracts Manager

Job Description:

Our client is one of the UK's leading property maintenance and refurbishment companies, with a turnover of £250m, around 1,000 employees, and a national presence serving sectors such as social housing, defence, hotel & leisure, healthcare, education, and more.

Due to a strong work stream they are looking for a Contracts Manager to join their team on a Permanent basis based in Leicestershire. 

Key Roles and Responsibilities

As the Contracts Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Oversee the management and delivery of a number of contracts, predominantly refurbishment and Planned Works covering a number of sectors.
• Sectors include Healthcare, NHS, Education, Social Housing, Leisure /Hotels, Ministry of Defence and Local Authority.
• To effectively plan and manage directly employed operatives, sub contractors and suppliers to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, to specification and within budget.
• Experience of delivering works within occupied environments is essential for this role.
• Individuals will need to be enthusiastic self-starters, be able to build relationships and demonstrate excellent communication skills to work to demanding timescales within a team delivering a variety of contracts and strategic frameworks for major clients.
• The successful candidate must have commercial awareness, being fully conversant with all aspects of construction contracts, have good Health & Safety knowledge and will hold a current SMSTS.
• IT skills are essential in particular the use of Microsoft packages.

Person Specification:

To excel in this role, you should possess the following qualifications, experience, and attributes:

• Previous experience of managing multiple contracts.
• Experience in contract administration, planning, estimating, tender processes, health & safety and staff management
• Ability to build good working relationships internally and externally and to work to prescribed deadlines
• NVQ 6 Qualification as a minimum.

An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Services check will be carried out.