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Role: Commercial Contract Manager
Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary Package: £35,000 to £45,000 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year
Hours: 9.00 am – 5.30 pm Monday – Friday. We also offer the opportunity to benefit from a Core Hours arrangement (role-specific), providing flexibility around your personal needs
Interview Process: 2-stage process
Why SCC?
- An inclusive workplace
- Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
- Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
- Career development and life-long learning opportunities
- Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company
Security Clearance (or the willingness to apply) is required for this role
Role purpose:
We are recruiting for a Commercial Contract Manager to join our thriving Commercial Services team, providing end-to-end commercial support and governance for our sales and services businesses.
This role is primarily to deliver expert contract management for a number of high value managed services contracts and will be highly visible within our enterprise and the individual will have strong risk and relationship management experience. The role is critical to managing commercial risk and revenue leakage within our organisation and requires an individual with experience of managing IT contracts.
Key responsibilities:
- Drafting / modifying contract terms and schedules, ensuring that assumptions, caveats, and limitations provided by other areas of SCC’s business are clearly defined in the terms
- Holding regular contract reviews with service / operational owners to ensure the contracts remain profitable and that SCC’s interests are protected
- Ensuring that the contracts correctly reflect the underpinning cost model and that commercial risks are mitigated
- Ensuring appropriate contracts / flow downs are agreed with any sub-contractors and there is alignment between SCC’s obligations with its customers and those delivered through a sub-contract
- Acting as a definitive authority / point of contact on the contents and deliverables of the contract for the operational and service management team
- Providing on-going contract oversight and management
- Managing the change process, negotiating any change controls to the contract during its term
- Managing contract indexation and price increase activities
- Proactively identifying contract optimisation opportunities
- Working with the operational and service teams to help ensure SCC’s contractual obligations are met
- Building strategic working relationships with internal and external customers
- Providing support and guidance to account managers and service managers when contract exit terms are questioned or challenged
- Negotiating exit provisions/charges with the Customer, where required
Skills and experience:
- Previous commercial/Procurement experience
- Supplier management experience
- Contract management knowledge
- Good communication & IT skills