Assistant Contract Manager - Empployment, career opportunity in UK

Job Title:  Assistant Contract Manager
Job Type:    Permanent
Location:    Nationwide
Start Date:    ASAP
Salary:    £30,000 - £36,000
Ref No:    119266-LS---2210---ACME


Salary: £36k + benefits + bonus
Location: Nationwide
Contract: Perm

Our client is looking for an Assistant Contract Manager to work alongside the Contract Manager to ensure all assigned contracts achieve agreed sales level, profitability and working capital targets and that contractual service level commitments are fulfilled.

This position sits within our Integrated Solutions Division. It is a national role working on-site for a healthcare company. Applicants must be willing to travel throughout the UK frequently and stay away from home when required.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities:

* Achieve and exceed agreed contract and budgeted trading targets.
* Identify and develop new business opportunities within the existing contractual scope.
* Identify and recommend to IS Management Team new business opportunities which would require alterations to existing contracts.
* Assist with the recruitment of contract personnel against role profiles within the contract overhead budget.
* Ensure Service Centre Managers deliver outstanding performance through continuous appraisal, training, coaching, mentoring and performance measurement.
* Monitor, be responsible for and promote health and safety within the site operations, ensuring adherence to Health and Safety regulations at all times.
* Review contract performance with customer Contract Champions as required.
* Regularly review management accounts and customer KPI's with Service Centre Management.
* Deliver contract management information to Integrated Solutions Management Team as required.
* Ensure that the customer adheres to contract payment terms.

Applicants should have/be:

* A high level of commercial competence.
* Knowledge of some or all the categories of Maintenance, Repair and Operational product and service range.
* Knowledge of Industrial Consumables
* Knowledge and understanding of supply chain management strategies and techniques.
* Knowledge and understanding of financial reporting procedures.
* IT and systems literate, to include Stock Management principles and ability to prepare and deliver management information within required deadlines.
* Minimum of 5 years business development or management experience in a demanding customer facing industrial/commercial environment.
* Experience of team recruitment, to include personal development, procedures, principles and processes.
* Operational experience, to include justifying and delivering engineering benefit savings and effectively manage sales, margin and customer pricing savings to achieve or exceed contract profitability.
* Ability to develop and deliver continuous improvement initiatives.
* Financially aware, to include understanding of P&L, budget preparation, cash management and proving regular forecasts of sales and profitability.

The salary offering for this position is benchmarked at £30,000 - £36,000 DOE and will include benefits such as phone, car, private medical, contributory pension and a bonus scheme based upon the target profits of the branches within remit.

Due to the nature of the customer's business, people with a Penicillin allergy cannot be considered for this role.


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