Contracts Manager

Key Responsibilities

- Lead on all commercial contract matters during the construction phase of our projects - Support our construction project managers to manage a robust contract process from contract signatures to taking over and contract close, including: - Review, assess and respond to contract Notices and Claims - Manage the variations process across our contracts (including assessment of values) - Ensure efficient and robust management of the contractor payment application process - Attend contractor progress meetings (on site where applicable) and lead sections relating to commercial contract matters. - Work with finance and technical teams to refine how we evaluate contract variations and extensions of time, so that we amend the project schedule and budget each month. - Feedback lessons learned to the wider team to improve the contract management process - Support on construction and battery energy storage system (BESS) tenders - Help define our procurement strategy across multiple capital projects (EPC full wrap, partial wrap, split, etc.) - Participate in tender activity - issuing RFI/Qs, prequalifying suppliers, and defining clear metrics to assess their commercial submissions - With support from the wider Supply Chain & Procurement team, develop appropriate levers to negotiate commercially favourable outcomes for [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] - Work with our in-house technical team to help onboard new contractors and further refine our project requirements - Help ensure contractors proposals are comprehensive and commercially watertight - Assist with O&M procurement and contract management activities - Help carry out end to end procurement activities for O&M contracts, running concurrently with construction project procurement activities - Assist the day to day contract management for O&M contracts - Continuous construction procurement and contract management improvement - Identify weaknesses in our processes and continually strive to improve the way we work - Develop innovative ways to improve performance and save money - Where necessary, support with implementing new systems/software and roll out to cross-functional teams - Scaling construction procurement capabilities - Help scale our construction procurement capabilities both in the UK and overseas - Help onboard new members of the team and work with them to build best-in-class scalable processes and procedures - Assist in finding new talent to grow the team

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Benefits

Salary: £55-00 - 75,000

We’re offering a competitive compensation package, including participation in our employee share scheme which rewards all employees for the growth of the business.

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