Contract Management Officer - Huntingdon, United Kingdom - Cambridgeshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council

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Huntingdon, United Kingdom

4 days ago

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About the role

You will work on the effective implementation and monitoring of the County Council's Highway Contracts, especially NEC Contracts, local infrastructure projects and support the management of the Authority's Highways Service commissions team that deliver corporate and directorate objectives.

Cambridgeshire County Council is committed to ensuring people enjoy healthy, safe and independent lives through timely support that is most suited to their needs.

We are seeking an enthusiastic Contract Management Officer to monitor and assist managing the Term Service Contract - Highways.

The role sits within Cambridgeshire County Council's Highways Contracts and Commissioning Team, working collaboratively across the council to deliver the highway service.

The team monitoring and evaluating the delivery of the highway service through key contracts, it's performance and compliance and cost assurance.

You will have proven experience of highways related work and contracts, excellent stakeholder management and the ability to work across complex systems to deliver the most efficient results through the Highway contracts.

What will you be doing?

To effectively execute NEC and PFI contracts through various programmes and performance of key suppliers delivering across Cambridgeshire, which will contribute effectively to the quality of life for the people of Cambridgeshire.

The Contracts Management Officer will support the Contracts Manager to monitor our service provider's performance and delivery on a number of different types of highways infrastructure programmes.

This will include contract, performance and programme management, circa £60m per annum.

The role also covers providing support to other team members and stakeholders and to assist as required with the management of the contracts, such as the NEC Term Service Contract.

The role is vital in ensuring effective and efficient delivery of contracts, with a systematic approach to delivery of the workstreams, determining appropriate outcome measures and key milestones to track progress, analysing information and delivering reporting functions, as required.

About you
You will have a good level of knowledge and understanding of:
Highways Contracts, Construction/ civils engineering, programme management, supplier engagement

You will be:

Capable of coordinating between various departments, organised with excellent time management skills, with the ability to self-direct and work under own initiative, confident with figures, motivated to make a visible difference to our communities and drive forward change

About us

Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.

Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered.

We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.

Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits: