Contract Services Administrator

Mitie Group plc.; Northampton; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private GP

Salary Finance

Flexible lifestyle benefits

Cycle-to-work

Job summary

Mitie Fire & Security is seeking a Contract Services Administrator to provide administrative support across the full contract lifecycle, from onboarding to renewals, using Cash4Windows to maintain customer records and SLAs.

You will liaise with Account Managers, answer routine queries, generate reports, and drive process improvements to support accurate invoicing and on-time service delivery.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication with the confidence to engage effectively at all levels.
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage time, workload and priorities.
• Customer-focused mindset with professional relationship-building abilities.
• Experience in contract administration, SLAs and KPI frameworks.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Manage client communications relating to contract renewals and updates in internal systems.
• Support the contract lifecycle from initiation through to completion, aiding customer retention.
• Maintain clear documentation to ensure transparency and compliance across activities.
• Assist with contract costing by gathering information and ensuring pricing data accuracy.
• Establish and implement new contract sales processes under supervision.

Skills

Excellent communication

Microsoft Office

Cash4Windows

Customer service

SLA/KPI awareness

Tools

Cash4Windows

CRM systems

Job description

The Contract Services Administrator plays a vital role in delivering a seamless, professional experience to all Mitie Fire & Security customers, acting as a key point of contact for both existing accounts and new contract sales. This position sits at the heart of contract administration and customer support, ensuring that every interaction reflects a strong commitment to quality, accuracy, and service excellence while supporting both internal and external stakeholders.

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The Contract Services Administrator plays a vital role in delivering a seamless, professional experience to all Mitie Fire & Security customers, acting as a key point of contact for both existing accounts and new contract sales. This position sits at the heart of contract administration and customer support, ensuring that every interaction reflects a strong commitment to quality, accuracy, and service excellence while supporting both internal and external stakeholders.

Working closely with the Administration Supervisor, the role supports the full lifecycle of contracts, including new business, mobilisation, and renewals. As a key user of the core operating system, Cash4Windows, you will ensure customer records, service level agreements (SLAs), and contract data are accurately maintained to enable effective scheduling, engineering, and finance operations. You will help ensure full process compliance across all new contract sales and mobilisation activities, providing the administrative backbone that allows teams to operate efficiently and deliver on customer expectations.

Day to day, you will provide outstanding administrative and customer support, managing interactions, resolving routine queries, and prioritising your workload to meet changing business demands. With a proactive mindset, strong organisational skills, and confident communication, you will build positive, professional relationships that contribute to customer satisfaction and retention. You will also assist with data analysis, reporting, and identifying opportunities to improve processes and workflows, supporting continuous improvement and ensuring that services remain aligned with the Customer Charter and wider business objectives.

Main Duties

• Manage client communications relating to contract renewals, ensuring timely follow-ups and accurate updates to contract data within internal systems.
• Support the smooth, professional handling of the contract lifecycle from initiation through to completion, contributing directly to customer retention.
• Maintain clear, consistent documentation to ensure transparency and process compliance throughout all contract activities.
• Assist with contract costing by gathering information, obtaining internal quotes, and ensuring pricing data is recorded and shared accurately.
• Establish and implement new contract sales processes under the direction of the Administration Supervisor.
• Support mobilisation and demobilisation activities, working closely with Account Managers to meet customer expectations and internal SLAs, including adherence to the 15th monthly cut-off for future PPMs.
• Prepare, validate, and manage mobilisation and data change upload sheets with a high level of accuracy.
• Identify and resolve data issues following mobilisation, system changes, or integrations.
• Accurately process cancellations relating to contracts, sites, systems, calls, and customer records in a timely manner.
• Support the full data import process from extraction through to final upload, reducing manual intervention and minimising errors.
• Align customer schedules and update purchase/work orders within internal systems to ensure accurate reconciliation between customer and internal records.
• Maintain precise, up-to-date system records, clearly outlining next steps and timelines to support effective service delivery.
• Review, analyse, and respond to customer enquiries within agreed SLAs.
• Manage shared inbox communications and ensure calls are answered promptly to maintain a professional customer experience.
• Liaise with internal teams to ensure customer requirements are met and work is completed within SLA.
• Investigate and resolve invoice disputes, queries, and complaints, identifying root causes and supporting effective resolutions.
• Take a proactive approach to managing workload to ensure a smooth and positive customer journey.
• Produce routine reports and assist with data analysis to support team and business decision-making
• Maintain high-quality documentation to ensure processes remain consistent and transparent.
• Identify process flow issues, potential risks, and opportunities to streamline renewals, new contracts, renegotiations, and retention activities.
• Support the Administration Supervisor in driving continuous improvement across contract and customer management processes.

Person Specification

• Demonstrates excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to engage effectively at all levels.
• Builds positive, professional relationships with customers and colleagues through a calm, outgoing, and respectful approach.
• Able to deliver a high standard of customer service while operating within defined contract terms, processes, SLAs, and KPI
• A strong team player who can also work autonomously in support of engineering teams and customer enquiries.
• Professional, collaborative, and supportive in approach, helping to create a harmonious working environment.
• Brings enthusiasm and a customer-focused mindset within a growing, fast-paced environment.
• Highly self-motivated with strong organisational skills and the ability to manage time, workload, and priorities effectively.
• Demonstrates a high level of attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and quality across all aspects of work.
• Commercially aware and experienced in working within a contract-driven environment.
• Competent in Microsoft Office applications, preferably at an intermediate level.
• Familiar with CASH for Windows, or an equivalent contract management system.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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