Senior Contracts Manager - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - Denholm Associates

Denholm Associates
Denholm Associates
Verified Company
Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Denholm are excited to be partnered with one of Scotland's most exciting new brands.

They are on an exciting journey to revolutionise broadband capabilities for homes and businesses in rural towns and villages across Northern England and Scotland, connectingcommunities and affording them digital capability equal to their city counterparts, whilst being as environmentally conscious as possible, and creating social value in the areas we serve.

This newly created role is accountable for successfully managing largescale infrastructure contracts within the business, ensuring it meets all contractual obligations and has the correct management procedures to manage reporting, subsidy payments and compliance to contractual terms.

The role holder will immediately take on the management of existing large public sector contracts and work to build the contract management function within the business for future contracts of all sizes.

Working within the finance function the role holder will also work closely to support and help the operations and delivery teams achieve the contractual terms, ensuring all stakeholders are kept informed and up to date on all relevant activities.


Duties and responsibilities:

  • Ownership and management of public procurement contracts, being the Single point of contact for clients and own endtoend contract plan
  • Responsible for client reporting/KPI's, contract change control and governance
  • Managing and securing payments, drawdowns and producing required evidence as required
  • Key interface with clients to provide updates against contractual milestones and progress
  • Measuring contract compliance and early warnings
  • Own escalation management and dispute resolution
  • Run weekly/monthly/quarterly contract governance as required

Skills, qualifications and qualities required:

  • Ideally a relevant degree or qualifications, however contract management experience as outlined below is significantly more important.
  • Ideally a relevant degree or qualifications, however contract management experience as outlined below is significantly more important.
  • Experience in a senior contract management role reporting at a senior level
  • Experience managing large scale capital project contracts
  • Experience managing multiyear infrastructure project contracts (especially utility or telecommunications contracts)
  • Experience in, or understanding of gap funded government subsidy programmes
  • Understanding of telecommunications infrastructure
  • Strong interpersonal skills, a team player with great contract management experience. A relationship builder first and foremost, relying on contractual terms as a last resort.
  • Resilient and able to navigate complexity
  • Detail focused, numerate and commercially minded
  • Selfstarter, ability to work autonomously and manage own workload as well as help define priorities for delivery teams


You will be part of the senior management team and as such will be rewarded with excellent incentives and benefits.

Their brand new office is in Edinburgh, with hybrid working available.

This is a rare opportunity to bring your skills to a start up with a wealthof funding, where you will make an immediate impact on the success of the business.

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