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

Description

What will you be doing?

The Contracts Management Officer will support the Contracts Manager to monitor our service providers performance and delivery against a number of different types of highways infrastructure programmes. This will include contract, performance and programme management, circa £60m per annum.

The role will cover NEC 3 term maintenance, PFI and NEC 4 professional services contracts and any subsequent contracts procured by the contracts and commissioning team.

You will play an integral role in the delivery of existing contracts and assist in the development of new processes, procedures and systems to drive efficiency as we move the service to digital by default solutions.

As a valued member of the team you will provide support to other team members and stakeholders and to drive effective management of the contracts.

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.

Open to development with opportunities to train and grow within the role and the wider contracts and commissioning team.

Our benefits

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