Highways Contract Manager

About the role:

An opportunity has arisen to join the Commercial and Business improvement team to support the delivery of the Highways Term Service Contract for Central Bedfordshire.

As Highways Contracts Manager you will be responsible for the management of commercial aspects of the business area including supporting contract delivery and operations, managing commercial risk and opportunity, ensuring accuracy of forecasts and that all commercial reporting procedures are adhered to. Supporting the delivery of projects, monitoring compliance with contract obligations and driving value from the supply chain.

The successful candidate will have a degree in quantity surveying or other commercially related discipline and a professional member of RICS or equivalent. You have an understanding of value management and programme development and monitoring, ensuring delivery against key targets. You have NEC4 Contract Management framework experience. You have excellent interpersonal skills in creating and maintaining relationships, able to converse with clients and peers at a senior level. You are digitally savvy, can build lasting client relationships and provide support to multi-disciplinary teams within a commercial environment. You will have commercial management experience within the highways/infrastructure sector and be hungry to grow your career and enjoy the opportunities Central Bedfordshire has to offer.

If you would like to help make Central Bedfordshire a great place to live and work, we would like to hear from you. 

To achieve this, you will:

• Maintaining and building relationships with suppliers, monitoring and reporting their performance and compliance.

• Preparing recommendations for interim payments to suppliers in accordance with contract requirements and produce              payment certificates for sign off.

• Maintaining financial impact assessments for instructed change.

• Negotiating on financial impacts of compensation events with suppliers.

• Maintaining the project data sets to achieve consistency, accuracy and alignment.

• Assisting cost and expenditure planning / benchmarking (including the completion of data capture analysis sheets) in            accordance with client process.

• Supporting cost management, trending estimating and forecasting to the project. 

• Analysing cost performance data and provide relevant input for monthly performance reports. 

• Supporting management of budget and spend profiles continually identifying ways to improve cost performance.

• Managing the impact of inflation currencies and exchanges into forecasting and aligned with tracking indices.

• Carrying out cost impact analysis of proposed changes to scope/schedule. 

• Assisting project managers in the preparation of cost reports and analysis on a work breakdown structure /activity basis,        identifying areas of learning and any recommendations for efficiency improvement.

The role will involve leading a small team of quantity Surveyors and providing them with the strategic and operational direction needed.  You will work closely with Senior Officers, elected members and other Council teams to ensure that the management and improvement of the network supports Council priorities and policy documents.

Our Offer

We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page  

Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer.  We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.

For more information please contact Brian Gallagher on +44 7716 098175 / brian.gallagher@penna.com

Closing Date: Sunday 29th December 2024 

Interview Date: Wednesday 15th January 2025