Contract Manager (All Grades) - Contract Services

Turner & Townsend; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career progression opportunities

Hybrid working environment

Professional development support

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Contract Manager in Birmingham, UK, to oversee contract management across high-value, complex programmes. The role involves leading contract governance, managing relationships, and ensuring compliance while delivering strategic commercial advice. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in contract management with experience in major infrastructure projects and is encouraged to pursue professional development opportunities. Turner & Townsend offers a hybrid working environment with opportunities for career progression.

Qualifications

• Experience in major projects (Infrastructure, Real Estate, Defence).
• Understanding of contract law principles.
• Ability to develop commercial strategies and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Drive change in large organisations.
• Manage lifecycle of contracts on major projects.
• Lead contract governance reviews and negotiations.

Skills

Contract management

Negotiation

Commercial strategy

Financial analysis

Communication

Education

Contract Management accreditation(s)

Tools

CEMAR

Sypro

Asite

Job description

• Full-time
• Department: Infrastructure

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority‑owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Due to increased workload and securing of new clients across the Defence, Infrastructure, Energy & Natural Resources and Real Estate sectors, Turner & Townsend has a new opportunity for a Contract Manager to join our growing Programme Advisory – Contract Services division in our UK offices.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to:

• Drive change in the largest organisations in the country,
• Engage on and influence large‑scale flagship projects,
• Impact across multiple industries and categories,
• Challenge themselves in a market‑leading global business,
• Create new and innovative service offerings to the Market,
• Manage the full lifecycle of contracts across major programmes, ensuring obligations, deliverables, risks, and dependencies are controlled.

We are the first consultancy to be recognised by the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) for excellence in the procurement processes that it provides for clients in the construction sector. Our Team received a Procurement Excellence Programme Award demonstrating excellence in our procurement and supply chain activities.

The Opportunity:

The Contract Manager will support Turner & Townsend’s Programme Advisory service line by delivering contract and commercial management across high value, complex programmes. The role is central to ensuring that contractual arrangements, commercial strategy and supplier performance enables the successful delivery of client transformation and capital programmes.

Operating as part of Turner & Townsend’s end‑to‑end Procurement Advisory capability, the Contract Manager will be supported by procurement in developing contracting strategies, manage commercial risk, and ensure supplier governance and compliance, value for money, and alignment with programme objectives.

This role will be a part of our established team and play a significant part in the continued expansion of our services in this exciting period of growth with existing and new clients.

• Lead and manage contract management on major projects and/or programmes supported by Turner & Townsend.
• Lead contract governance reviews including variations, extensions, change control, and dispute management.
• Provide strategic project and commercial advice to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Produce clear commercial analysis to support decision‑making.
• Managing client relationships and related commission outputs and deliverables.
• Support business development and marketing of the team’s service proposition.
• Oversee contract performance management including KPIs, SLAs, service credits, escalation protocols, and risk mitigation.
• Run contract management activities including but not limited to performance reviews and contract review boards.
• Support procurement, transformation, supplier relationship management and claims and dispute teams providing contract management advice and expertise.

The Offer:

Turner & Townsend will offer the right candidate a distinct opportunity to progress their career within an entrepreneurial, defined and growing division. This will be achieved through a mixture of leading the delivery of large‑scale projects, creating innovative solutions and service offerings, elevating the T&T Contract Services team, working with blue‑chip organisations and becoming a trusted and visible expert within Turner & Townsend and the Market.

Further opportunities are available to travel both nationally and internationally to service and manage key commissions for our blue‑chip client portfolio.

Turner & Townsend encourages a Hybrid method of working to provide a practical Work/Life balance that recognises the challenges that life brings.

We are keen to ensure that our team is delivering Best Practice in our Procurement Practices and therefore we will be encouraging and supporting individuals to achieve recognised contract management accreditations ensuring regular Professional Development to further the team’s high standards.

Qualifications

To deliver for our clients, we are looking for a mixture of the following:

Experience:

• Strong background in contract management within major projects and programmes (Infrastructure, Real Estate, Energy & Natural Resources, Defence).
• Understanding of commercial strategy, and contract law principles.
• Proven experience across negotiation, commercial and contract drafting, and contract administration and risk management.
• Experience in multi‑vendor contract environments and performance management frameworks.
• High level of contract and commercial acumen with strong financial and analytical skills.
• Experience of developing and using various forms of contracts with particular focus on NEC and JCT.
• Experience of using Contract Management Systems (e.g. CEMAR, Sypro, Asite, etc.)
• Understanding of regulated procurement, in particular the Procurement Act 2023 and Public Contract Regulations 2015.
• Has achieved, working towards or willing to work towards Contract Management accreditation(s).

Skills:

• Ability to lead and develop key commercial contract strategies and documentation for major projects.
• Able to build strong, professional client relationships and proactively identify and resolve client’s issues.
• Excellent communication skills, adaptable, with a determination to succeed.
• Strong background in contract management within major programmes (Infrastructure, Real Estate, Energy & Natural Resources, Defence).
• Understanding of commercial and contract strategy, and contract law principles.
• Proven experience across end‑to‑end contract management supplier negotiation, contract drafting, and commercial risk management, to provide guidance and support to the specific areas
• Experience in multi‑vendor contract environments and performance management frameworks.
• High level of commercial acumen with strong financial and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex commercial matters clearly.
• Able to develop supplier evaluation and commercial principles and modelling strategies, to support the Procurement process.
• Able to manage work/business development/career development activities.

Behaviours:

• Adaptable and taking personal responsibility to succeed.
• Collaborative, client‑focused, and solutions‑oriented mindset.
• Proactive, resilient, and able to deliver under pressure.
• Confident, independent and trustworthy, able to influence individuals at all levels.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work‑life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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