Contract Manager

Fujitsu; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Contract Manager

Location: Basingstoke / Remote with regular travel to customer sites.

Are you a self-starter with experience in supporting projects, programs & Service? Can you work within a team to assist in the control and governance of large and complex IT projects/services? Do you want to make an impact and change the way the world works? Do you want to collaborate and achieve together with committed people to deliver IT change? This is your world and your opportunity to transform it for the better.

Your experience

Customer Facing

• Experience of being a single point of contact for the Authorities commercial function to deal with questions/ queries.
• Engage regularly with the Authority commercial team regarding questions and queries related to contractual/commercial matters, including:
• Engaging on Delay Letters issued by you on behalf of the Delivery Executive.
• Reviewing feedback to Change Notes by the Authority.
• Managing the requirement for Letters of Authority (LOA’s) in advance of an authorised Change.
• Issuing Obsolescence Notices.
• Addressing ad hoc questions or queries as they arise.
• Attending Customer Site once per month as a ‘Full Commercial Team’ to discuss and identify improvements to current working practices.
• Supporting and occasionally leading on all commercial matters relating to specified contracts, including:
• Contract Change Board – Monthly.
• Indexation – Annually.
• Contract Conformance – Weekly calls and 6 monthly conformance.
• Disputes and potential disputes with guidance from Senior Contracts Manager.

As part of the Fujitsu Team

• Work as part of the broader Fujitsu team to develop and review quality offers to the Authority in respect of Contract Change.
• Attend and contribute to Governance Forums such as DRW and CAB.
• Engage with the Change Team to coach on the commercial offering of the opportunity.
• Participate in Change Tracking to support the priorities of the Change team.
• Review each offer submitted to the Authority for quality and compliance with contract terms.
• Support the delivery of change projects by attending monthly and/or ad hoc project reviews, providing commercial/contract guidance.
• Address specific contractual pressures across the contract, including service, change impacting, change delivery, and general contract compliance.
• Act as a point of contact for procurement when guidance is required.
• Support in contractual reporting obligations such as:
• Social Values.
• Foreign Exchange.
• Audit.
• Obsolescence.
• Provide contract guidance to all members of the programme, finance, delivery, and service teams regarding specified elements of the contract.

Competencies we are looking for include:

• Attention to detail.
• Self-Starter.
• Strong team player.
• Well-developed communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Excellent SharePoint skills.
• Ability to develop data tracking reports such as obligations tracking and ongoing data monitoring.
• Ability to manipulate bulk data, for example, creating conformed versions of contract documents.

Your benefits:

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible).

Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%.

Life assurance.

Companywide incentive plans.

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays, travel, dental, critical illness, and more).

Perks at work – employee discounts.

Employee assistance programme/ virtual GP.

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of two stages of interview.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email [e-mail] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.

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