- Contracts Manager
- £55,000
- Clacton-on-Sea
We are recruiting for a Contracts Manager to manage a portfolio of local schools. The contract is a TFM including grounds, cleaning, catering, M+E and fabric works. The Contracts Manager will be in charge of overseeing the management team as well as responsible for achieving KPI's across the contract, managing the P+L and the customer relationship.
Benefits:
In exchange for your work and expertise the following benefits are included in the role:
25 days holiday + 8 days bank holiday (ability to buy and sell annual leave also) - 6% contributory pension
- 45p per mile for milage
- Good opportunity for promotion
- Life insurance
- Healthcare scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
Duties of the role include:
- Manage a team of 4 middle managers, providing support and career/skill advancement.
- Ensuring the KPI's on the contract are closely monitored and met.
- Working with the customer to provide high levels of satisfaction, improving and developing the client relationship.
- Have a strong understanding of the contract to ensure you're working within service delivery guidelines, minimizing fines and giving the best experience to the customer.
- Ensure all subcontractors on the contract are working to a high standard and competing jobs on time.
- Looking at P+L, minimising and fines and looking to get cost effective service from subcontractors.
- Look for opportunities to maximise profits while minimising risk.
- Managing all planned and reactive work across the contract as well as project, lifecycle and variation work.
- Ensure all work is completed to a high standard of health and safety and is in line with all best practice guidelines.
- Using the CAFM system, ensure a robust asset management system is in place and monitored.
- Work in collaboration with the Client to develop and implement FM initiatives.
- Work closely with compliance team and feed into relevant processes and systems as required.
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Experience managing contracts with a t/o circa £1m
- Experience in managing an FM operations team
- Experience within complex contracts or public sector clients is desirable
- PFI experience is desirable
- Experience of successfully managing P+L
- Strong communication and motivational skills
- Friendly and professional attitude, able to work with the customer but also assert themselves a required.