DIO - Regional Delivery Central Contract Change Manager

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Job summary

A government agency in the UK is seeking a dedicated Contract Change Manager to support their Regional Support Team. The role involves managing contractor relationships, ensuring compliance with contractual agreements, and driving performance improvements. Ideal candidates will have experience in contract management and strong communication skills to lead contract changes effectively.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing contractor relationships.
• Ability to develop effective demobilisation and mobilisation plans.
• Strong communication skills with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage strategic customer and supplier relationships through contract changes.
• Ensure contractors meet contractual outputs.
• Identify performance improvement opportunities.

Job description

Regional Delivery is a large, complex operation within the DIO, covering approximately 58,000 assets across over 500 sites, with 275,000 Ha of estate in the UK and 580,000 Ha overseas. It manages numerous multi-million-pound contracts, delivering soft and hard facilities management services for the MOD's assets, including training estates and USVF built estates.

The RD Central region focuses on delivering Hard and Soft Facilities Management across six areas, from Hadrian's Wall to the Thames Estuary, and from East Anglia to West Wales. It includes strategic sites such as Aircraft Main Operating Bases, the Defence Animal Training Regiment, and the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre. Hard FM is managed through a single NEC-based contract, while Soft FM is delivered via sector-leading contracts. The region emphasizes customer engagement and professional estate advice.

We seek a dedicated, hardworking Contract Change Manager (CCM) to support the Regional Support Team Assistant Head. The CCM will manage strategic customer and supplier relationships through contract changes, drive improvements, and lead contract expiry and mobilisation activities.

The role involves ensuring contractors meet contractual outputs, developing effective demobilisation and mobilisation plans, and maintaining communication strategies to keep stakeholders informed. The CCM will also identify performance improvement opportunities and develop value optimisation plans to maximize MOD's contract value.