Contract Manager

We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience By clicking the Accept button, you agree to us doing so. Accept No, thanks Skip to main content Main navigation My B&D Logout Search Search Services Help improve your council website! We're redesigning our website and we'd love your help! Whether you've got two minutes or twenty, every piece of feedback helps us create a better experience. See the surveys available right now Hide Contract Manager Apply online About this job If you want to make sure public contracts deliver more than compliance, this role offers the chance to turn contractual commitments into visible benefits for residents, communities and frontline services. As Contract Manager, you will manage a portfolio of contracts and strategic supplier relationships across an allocated category area, making sure that public money continues to deliver value long after contracts are awarded. You will oversee the full contract lifecycle from set-up and mobilisation through to performance management, change control, close-out and re-procurement planning, ensuring services remain resilient, accountable and focused on outcomes. You will implement proportionate Contract Management Plans, monitor KPIs, social value commitments, spend, risks, variations and supplier performance, and work with services and suppliers to resolve issues before they affect residents or service delivery. This is a role with real influence and public purpose: you will challenge costs, validate price changes, manage extensions and variations, support Procurement Act 2023 transparency and performance reporting, and protect the Council from avoidable contractual, financial and operational risk. You will also work with suppliers to unlock continuous improvement, innovation, savings, efficiencies, resilience and wider social, economic and environmental benefit. By strengthening supplier accountability and turning performance data into action, you will help LBBD secure the maximum public benefit from every contract it manages and ensure contracts make a measurable difference to the borough. Special requirements for this post You should hold MCIPS Level 6, a relevant advanced practitioner qualification in contract management or supplier relationship management, or be able to demonstrate equivalent professional experience and expertise. We are looking for someone with at least five years’ experience in a commercial role involving contracts or suppliers of significant value or complexity, ideally within a public sector environment. You should have strong commercial acumen, including the ability to lead negotiations, manage claims or disputes, operate change control, and manage variations, extensions, mobilisation, exit and close-out activity in a way that protects service delivery and public value. You will need strong analytical, reporting and records management skills, with the ability to maintain clear audit trails, manage sensitive commercial information and support transparency, FOI, data protection and information governance requirements. Experience of monitoring supplier performance, financial health, risks, KPIs, social value, sustainability and ESG commitments would be valuable, particularly where this has helped improve service resilience, accountability or resident outcomes. In return, you will join a purposeful service helping LBBD strengthen supplier accountability, improve contract performance and secure maximum public benefit throughout the life of every contract. About you You will be a commercially minded contract management professional who is motivated by turning contract commitments into measurable benefits for residents, communities and frontline services. You will bring experience in contract management, supplier relationship management, procurement, category management or a related commercial role, with the confidence to manage contracts of significant value or complexity in a public sector setting. You will understand c