Senior Contracts Manager (London / M4 Corridor)

Job Overview

• Take full financial and delivery responsibility for a portfolio of contracts ensuring that JCA cost effectively deliver contracted services as well as additional services, within legislative and contractual obligations.
• Manage all activities necessary, as required to achieve success at all contract life cycle phases, including lead generation, opportunity management, enquiry to quote process, pre-contract phase, post contract phase and defects and liability period.
• Deliver projects in accordance with contracted requirements. Ensure that contracts are correctly administered in accordance with the relevant legal framework.
• Manage direct and indirect resources, supply chain, plant, materials and logistics necessary to ensure successful contract completion.
• To carry out financial forecasting and reporting of cost, sales, gross profit, and risk associated with all projects assigned to you.
• Ensure that statutory obligations are met in full and ensure that the business is not exposed to undue risks.
• Ensure that records, data and systems are maintained up to date and in accordance with standards, policies and procedures.
• Maintain excellent client relationships, develop and maximise opportunities for additional revenue and margin and contract retention.
• Work with all stakeholders to identify opportunities in line with business strategy.

Main duties

• Manage an assigned portfolio of contracts, ensuring that the works are delivered with the contractual obligation and cost effectively.
• Manage the portfolio of contracts achieving a minimum gross margin as specified by the Company KPI.
• Using the available systems and processes, implement a self-auditing regime in order to validate that works are being completed in accordance with the Contract Execution Plan.
• Generate additional works opportunities on the portfolio of contracts to achieve an additional contract value as set out in specific objectives.
• Where additional work opportunities are awarded ensure that works are expedited in a timely and efficient manner, delivering the works as cost effectively as is possible.
• Ensure that all company-wide processes and procedures are fully deployed in delivering the services associated with contracted and additional works.
• Ensure that additional work opportunities are financially closed out in the month of work completion.
• Manage contract works in accordance with the contract execution plan. Ensure contract execution plan is updated and maintained for the life cycle of the contract.
• Generate pre-contract and contract specific deliverables in accordance with the contract execution plan.
• Manage contract delivery teams ensuring that resources are efficiently allocated to contracts for the contract duration.
• Manage supply chain and sub-contractor performance in respect of the delivery of contract specific services and in accordance with internal supply chain KPI protocols.
• Identify change requirements and expedite opportunities to maximise revenue and to de-risk contract delivery.
• Report on contract performance in accordance with company KPI protocols.
• Manage financial application, job costing, and forecasting update processes for contract sales.
• Manage close out of defects and liability periods including release of retention accounts for contract sales.
• Manage, and work with internal company departments to administer supply chain contracts, from enquiry stage through to practical completion and defects and liability close out.

What we are looking for

• Must have qualifications in one of the following:

• • Construction and / or Engineering Qualification (ONC, HND or Degree Level in Mechanical, Electrical, Building Services or Construction)
  • M&E Project Management Qualification
  • Technical Qualification
  • SMSTS site management safety training qualification
  • IOSH Managing Safely
  • CSCS card holder relevant to role
  • First aid at work

• Ideally would have a recognised project management qualification.
• Can demonstrate delivery of projects of a comparable size, value and in a comparable industry or market sector.
• Can demonstrate leadership and management style in keeping with JCA’s brand image.
• Can demonstrate excellent analytical skills and has experience of Document Management Systems, Sharepoint, Dynamics CRM, Asta Powerproject, Excel, Anaplan or similar/equivalent packages.
• Has experience of working in an SME and can demonstrate an understanding of the need to have a broad business understanding.
• Knowledge of the construction and engineering industry’s statutory requirements, methods and processes.
• Driving licence holder.

About us

JCA is a multi-faceted engineering services and construction business. Our core expertise is in the development of buildings and facilities with business critical engineering systems.

We deliver a comprehensive range of services to meet the needs of commercial property owners operating in a number of industry sectors. From design and construction to fit-out and maintenance, JCA provides a bespoke solution to every client project.

JCA offers clients a first-class service at all times, operating with transparency and integrity. We are proud to provide excellence as standard and it’s our mission to be recognised as leading our industry in service and innovation through engineering and business excellence.

Our defining quality is our ability to manage projects by keeping our clients’ needs at the heart of everything we do. We take a collaborative and integrated approach to each of our four core business areas:

· Engineering Projects

· Service & Maintenance

· Interior Fit Out

· Design & Consultancy

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

To apply

If you are interested in joining JCA, please submit your application via below link:

https://careers.mitie.com/jobs/vacancy/76154/description