Remote Contract Manager

Summary

Join our Energy team at UW as a highly commercial Contract Manager for a 12-month Fixed Term Contract Maternity cover. This role involves providing strategic ownership for in-life contract management, negotiating new contracts, and managing risks associated with existing contracts.

Responsibilities

• Provide a single strategic ownership for in-life contract management of Energy Industry contracts
• Full ownership and negotiation of new contracts, variations, side letters and pricing
• Formally managing all in-life risks associated with the contracts and report on these at least quarterly
• Manage our ongoing MHHS migration with our exclusive provider, ensuring all contractual milestones are met
• Provide cost reporting for each contract, ensuring they remain within forecasted spend
• Manage cross departmental multi-disciplinary stakeholders to oversee, cost, quality of service, and continuous improvement through energy contracts
• Work with Smart teams and Operations to ensure timely production of forecasts, challenges, and planning to share with suppliers
• Ensuring all contract KPI’s / SLA’s are met and reported on monthly, providing remedial action plans for any underperformance
• Create monthly reporting packs to document against performance, improvement areas and market intelligence
• Work closely with internal stakeholders such as Ops, Finance and Product to ensure we are meeting our contractual obligations to our suppliers
• Data management; ensuring all data is up to date and accurate, keeping it in presentable format so it is easily accessible to key stakeholders
• Drive change in policies inline with the business requirements
• Provide insight of industry innovation and insights which directly impact existing contracts and current ways of working