Head of Contracts - Bristol, United Kingdom - BT Group

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Head of Contracts, Defence


Job Req ID:10692
Posting Date:07-Feb-2023
Function:Commerical Services
Location:Assembly, Bristol, United Kingdom
Salary:Competitive + Excellent Benefits
About BT

  • BT has a key role in British society, fostering change and leading technology innovation. From delivering the Olympics, to supporting the emergency services, to investing more into research than any other UK technology company, we take pride in everything we do and in the people who work here.
  • We're now a global company operating at the forefront of the information age, employing 90,000 people in 180 countries. And we're on a mission. Guided by our core values of Personal, Simple and Brilliant our goal is to help customers, communities and businesses overcome barriers and release their potential.
  • So, if you're interested in the power of potential, why not join us today and release yours? You can read more here about what it's like to work at BT

Locations:


London or Bristol
About the role:

  • You will be responsible for protecting the value of BT's largest managed contracts in the Defence space. Profit and loss in this sector is more than £200 million per annum, with a contract value of more than £6 billion covering a number of contracts with the Ministry of Defence. You will be responsible for leading the Defence contract management team and the CMO through mitigating risks, effectively delivering contractual obligations and excellent stakeholder management. In this role, you will be accountable for the commercial management of contracts as well as delivering change control and development opportunities.

What you'll be doing:


  • Building strong relationships with senior customer stakeholders, Account Management, Director of Defence and Finance teams
  • Having strong relationships with your peers will also be important to ensure best practice is shared and implemented
  • Meeting wider BT teams to ensure customer requirements can be delivered and managing these expectations
  • Assessing and managing inlife contractual obligations, assigning internal BT teams to relevant tasks
  • Managing performance of the 30+ thirdparty suppliers who help deliver contracted services and their annual spend
  • Monitoring compliance including T&Cs and SLAs within contractual obligations
  • Ensuring the business is able to understand and action change effectively
  • Championing the maximisation of commercial opportunities, including documenting, negotiating and resolving disputes
  • Supporting contract governance (CGRs), risk management, customer support, debt and profit and loss management
  • Making sure the wider Scotland Contract Management Team are actively managing all contracts and agreed governance is used at all times

You will be an expert in

  • Commercial management
  • Strategic planning and thinking, having previously led successful change programmes
  • Transformation and business improvement skills
  • Risk and issue management
  • Assessing and agreeing new business
  • Identifying and solving business problems
  • Governance and compliance methods
  • Best practice contract management methods
  • Stakeholder management (preferably within Enterprise and BT Group)
  • Working across organisational boundaries

You will have mandatory experience in

  • Managing senior public sector and corporate customers
  • Contract law and commercial constructs
  • Contract management
  • Devising and implementing strategy
  • Delivering operational transformation
  • Working with dispersed and virtual teams
  • Employee communications planning and delivery

Benefits:


  • Competitive salary
  • 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
  • 15% on target bonus
  • Company car or cash alternative
  • Private Healthcare
  • Pension scheme
  • Shares Plan
  • Flexible benefits: cycle to work, childcare vouchers, healthcare, etc
  • Discounted BT products

Who is the BT Group
We're the leading communications provider with customers in 180 countries. Across the world we enable customer's digital transformations so they can thrive.


our focus is simple:
be the global provider-of-choice for managed network and IT infrastructure services.
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