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We are currently looking for a Contracts Officer that we will be recruiting for one of our Government Organisations and Contracting Authorities in the coming weeks.

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The LLWR are looking for a Contract Officer to provide an effective commercial and contract management service in line with the management systems and strategies for the assigned business area, which meet the needs of LLWR’s Customers and enable the successful delivery of LLWR’s waste services.

As a Contracts Officer, you will: 

• Ensure personal impact on customer, supplier, and stakeholder relationships through the contract lifecycle is positive and consistent and supports delivery of obligations to time, quality and cost.
• Work to and promote the LLWR standards and expectations.
• Deliver contract management activities relating to the assigned business area, whilst ensuring compliance with LLWR policy and strategy.
• Maintain an awareness of suppliers and services to support the needs of the assigned business area.
• Maintain a knowledge base of contract terms and conditions to ensure that contract management can be delivered effectively.
• Support data capture and data analysis to identify service trends and improvement plans.
• Support delivery of Fee earning opportunities and mechanisms for LLWR to optimise the Fee return from LLWR’s Waste Service activities, where appropriate.
• To seek and act upon opportunities to improve the commercial management of the WMS contracts to obtain value for money for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and LLWR’s customers.
• Administer assigned Frameworks and Contracts in line with relevant Strategies and Plans.
• Monitor, report on, and support suitable KPIs and metrics for assigned Customer and Service Provider framework agreements.
• Record and analyse performance of the Waste Services supply chain.
• Identify and analyse commercial risks within assigned contracts, and where assigned, manage appropriately.
• Produce Contract Management Plans, Benefits Realisation Plans and Contract Management Strategies for Supplier contracts as required.
• Prepare and implement savings plans for assigned contracts.
• Support Tender preparation and Tender Evaluation for new sourcing projects by contributing to Acquisition Strategies, Tender documents, contract drafting, and any other sanctioning documents as required.
• Administer Further Competitions within existing Framework Agreements.
• Produce “Alcatel” Award and Decline Letters for Further Competitions
• Support pricing activities for Waste Services Quotations, Price Confirmation Notices, Early Warning Notices and Compensation Events.
• Support appropriate relationships with the Waste Services supply chain. Attend all relevant Customer Team meetings
• Utilise and be proficient in CRM (Customer Relationship Management Database)
• Utilise and be proficient in CTM or relevant Complete Tender Management System to produce Further Competitions and Tenders
• Support the Customer team in management of the Waste Services Customer Contracts including any contract amendments.

You’ll have:

• CIPS qualification or currently undertaking a CIPS qualification
• Experience as a Contract Manager/Officer
• Experience of managing Sub-Contractors
• Understanding of contract preparation, procurement procedures and contract administration
• Demonstrable ability to deal with people across a wide range of management levels and technical expertise
• Familiar with management systems and procedures for procurement and contract management.
• Experience looking after portfolio, managing spends, savings, reports, PO’s, payments

It would be great to also have:

• Great communication skills – Written and Oral

PLEASE NOTE – This role is currently Work from Home, however this may change during the contract length.

If this sounds like you and you would be interested in being considered for the role, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our PSR team now.

"In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."