Contract Manager

Description

The Contract Manager at Waterman Group plays a pivotal role in driving the financial and strategic success of multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consultancy projects. This role is responsible for overseeing commercial operations, ensuring profitability, and managing risk across a diverse portfolio of infrastructure, urban regeneration, and sustainability-focused developments.

Working collaboratively with project teams, clients, and stakeholders, the Contract Manager ensures that contracts are effectively managed, and commercial opportunities are maximised.

• Deliver projects that shape communities and contribute to the net-zero agenda.
• Working for/with contractors as well as clients/employers, and other members of the supply chain.
• Develop your leadership profile while mentoring others and influencing strategy.

Requirements

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Construction Management, and / or Civil Engineering or a relevant discipline, or relevant equivalent experience.
• Ability to understand the payment and variation mechanisms of bespoke client appointments (usually drafted by client lawyers) to ensure we are paid timeously and in the event of default of payment we have a clear contractual route to recovery.
• Experience of developing strong, effective and beneficial relationships both internal and external to the organisation.
• An understanding of the payment’s provisions of the Construction Act.
• Experience of working project management and scheduling tools including Primavera P6 or MS Project for programme and contingency planning. Together with familiarity with common data environments such as A-Site, CEEMAR, Fastdraft, or Asset Management Software.
• Ability to engage successfully across a range of stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.
• Basic legal knowledge relevant to appointments.
• Excellent communication skills – verbal, written, active listening – and the ability to adapt style as needed
• NEC4 ECC Project Accreditation, Prince2, or APM Project Management Qualification would be desirable.
• Evidence of having developed commercial opportunities, models and activities.
• Demonstrable working understanding, knowledge and experience of NEC Contracts, Methods of measurement, Change control under NEC and General finance / payment processes in particular issuing and tracking all Early Warning Notices and Compensation Events.
• Demonstrable experience of sound judgement, awareness of external environment and astuteness. Able to constructively challenge and substantiate decisions. Able to negotiate positively.
• Able to run regular workshops with the wider Waterman Group teams upskilling colleagues regarding payment and the NEC in general.
• Background working with multi-disciplinary teams across clients, contractors and sub-consultants.
• Proven experience of leading, inspiring, motivating, influencing and managing performance of a team.
• Knowledge of approaches to achieve broad skills development and cultural change.
• Chartered membership of an appropriate professional institution.
• Strong ownership and self-belief to confidently overcome barriers and explain principles and decisions to a broad range of stakeholders
• Ability to develop others and enable exposure of challenging packages of work throughout the wider team, sharing skills and experience.
• Strong understanding of commercial practices, tools, techniques and approach and how these can be embedded into processes and organisational culture. In depth and full understanding of the NEC, JCT and ACE (not as regularly used) and the emphasis on the professional services documents in the various suites.
• Understanding and application of risk protocols commensurate to the activity. Able to bring in relevant risk appetite to achieve outcomes
• Fully understands the NEC, JCT, and ACE forms of contract including pricing options, with is a particular emphasis on the PSC document in the NEC suite both short and long form and the differences in NEC 3 and 4 and the commercial differences between each.
• Clarity of thought, ability to think and translate ideas into realised benefits across the organisation

Benefits

• We value work-life balance and support flexible arrangements.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance