National Contract Manager - Construction Projects

Portakabin Ltd; Birchfield; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Single Private Medical Scheme

25 days annual leave + bank holidays +

Option to buy 5 extra days

Job summary

Portakabin Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a Contract Manager to join our GB Healthcare team, delivering large or complex contracts on a nationwide basis with regular travel. This permanent role offers an annual salary up to £67,000 plus a bonus up to 10% and a company car.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, manage budgets, and ensure safe, on‑time delivery to client specifications. The role also includes stakeholder reporting, risk management, and active customer relationship building.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Project management qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Experience of delivering large and complex construction or modular projects.
• Strong knowledge of financial control in project delivery, cost management, and negotiating final accounts.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership for the successful project management and delivery of allocated large or complex contracts, ensuring completion safely, on time, to specification, to budget and to the satisfaction of the customer.
• Act as a subject matter expert in project delivery, sharing knowledge and expertise with colleagues to support best practice across the function.
• Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to achieve contract delivery objectives, ensuring clarity of roles, responsibilities and deliverables.
• Maintain or improve project margins and cash flow through effective planning, budget management, risk control and commercial decision-making.
• Produce regular reports and updates for stakeholders, providing analysis of progress against programme, costs and key milestones.
• Identify, manage and mitigate project risks, maintaining an up-to-date risk register and acting on opportunities to improve outcomes.
• Ensure compliance with contractual terms and conditions, managing variations and resolving contractual conflicts and disputes where required.
• Build strong customer relationships, acting as the main point of contact for allocated contracts.
• Support bid and pre-construction activity as required, contributing operational expertise.
• Provide coaching, support and, where applicable, line management for professionals within the contract team.

Skills

Project management

Team leadership

Financial control

Risk management

Contract management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Project management qualification

Job description

Portakabin Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a Contract Manager to join our GB Healthcare team, delivering large or complex contracts on a nationwide basis with regular travel. This permanent role offers an annual salary up to £67,000 plus a bonus up to 10% and a company car.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, manage budgets, and ensure safe, on‑time delivery to client specifications. The role also includes stakeholder reporting, risk management, and active customer relationship building.