Contract Officer - Bristol, United Kingdom - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities

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Bristol, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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- £30,792

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Higher Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Safer and Greener Buildings
Type of role:
Operational Delivery
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Bristol, Darlington, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

Job summary:

The multi-billion pound remediation programme for 18m+ buildings is part of the Government's commitment to make sure people are safe in their homes.

Programme delivery is led by DLUHC, supported by Delivery Partners and high value commercial contracts providing critical programme services.

We are recruiting a Higher Executive Officer to deliver effective contract and supplier management.

You will work across high profile commercial and partnership relationships delivering contract management to ensure suppliers are best placed to succeed and to ensure value for money spend of £millions of public money.

You will combine contract management procedures with communicating and influencing & leadership skills to effectively performance manage suppliers - holding key programme partners to account and securing public value for money.

You will also be a troubleshooter-in-chief, working with policy and operational teams to understand their needs and exploring how best the commercial relationships you oversee can be adapted and moulded to the programme's evolving needs.

As an enabler for a wide range of plans and initiatives, including those within the wider portfolio of DLUHC building safety programmes, you will have a significant opportunity to influence the Department's achievement of a manifesto commitment.

You will have opportunity to develop commercial capabilities, completing Government contract management training and working with commercial colleagues on issues throughout the lifecycle of contracts you support and oversee: procurement & mobilisation (if required); transition & exit planning; financial management and control among others.

Job description:

Supplier performance management

You will support and oversee complex contracts which provide critical services to the 18m+ building remediation programme. You will work dynamically to take views from a broad range of programme stakeholders to identify and rectify issues, or reward success; always ensuring that suppliers meet demanding standards and entering formal negotiations to improve performance where this falls short.
You will oversee formal & informal performance management meetings with suppliers to hold them to account to manage performance issues.

Financial control

You will support the contracts you oversee and others in the portfolio, by providing financial control services and budgeting the anticipated spend across these complex contracts.
You will work with finance specialists to present your high quality forecasts to ensure that the programme secures the required funding to safeguard its delivery.
Linking to the performance management responsibilities above, you will oversee supplier payment encompassing any credits or debits made from their performance against contract responsibilities.

Contract troubleshooting

You will ensure the contracts you oversee remain fit for purpose in a continually evolving programme.
You will network with senior leaders and programme stakeholders to identify emerging requirements or resolution of workstreams and negotiate with suppliers through change control processes to evaluate options to repoint services to maintain excellent delivery.
You will network with suppliers to identify programme issues or requirements which they are close to, and to determine how the programme should respond, presenting proposals to colleagues and programme leadership to agree responsive strategies. You will use these avenues of supplier contact to share and disseminate programme information and initiatives which may impact on their work with applicants seeking remediation of their buildings.
You will be responsible for embedding and overseeing the contract changes you work on, ensuring they are fit for purpose and stakeholders are satisfied acting as the client to instruct and direct partners you manage in the delivery of the initiative.

Other responsibilities

You may be required to design, deliver and run procurements to secure successor services where contracts you manage come to an end and expire.
You may need to oversee contract exit planning and resolution to allow transition of services to the public sector or future contractors.
You will need to represent the contracts you oversee, providing key status updates, situation reports, and briefing information as required to overview performance and spend of public m