Senior Contract Manager

Skanska UK Plc; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading project development and construction firm is seeking a Senior Contract Manager to join their Commercial Property Maintenance team in London. This role focuses on managing business development, ensuring operational performance, and overseeing subcontractor services. The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in Hard Services contracts and business development within the construction sector, with a strong emphasis on performance management.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering a Hard Services contract.
• Experience in Business Development.
• Management experience of service delivery in high profile offices.

Responsibilities

• Lead bid management, including writing and proof-reading quality submissions.
• Responsible for performance management of subcontractors.
• Manage KPI and SLA’s to ensure targets are met.

Skills

Communication

Time Management

Prioritization

Education

Management Qualification

Job description

Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an

inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

Our Building Services division provides complete Facilities Management of properties throughout the UK, providing mechanical and electrical engineering support, cleaning, catering and grounds maintenance on a planned and reactive basis, using technological solutions to manage our teams in the most efficient ways.

We are looking for a Senior Contract Manager to join the Commercial Property Maintenance team in London.

The purpose of the role will be tolead business development of new business into CPM, mobilise effectively and to take into Operations. To ensure that CPM operational delivery performance is in line with contract obligations and Skanska business processes.

What you’ll do:

• · Lead bid Management, including writing and proof-reading Quality submissions. Supporting the estimating of new and existing business.
• Responsible for the performance management of all subcontractors
• Responsible for ensuring resilience within our subcontractor service delivery
• Manage agreed KPI and SLA’s, ensuring best use of all resources to ensure targets are met.
• Responsible for managing the company’s Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Environmental performance on the contracts

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Must have proven experience delivering a Hard Services contract
• Experience in Business Development
• Management Qualification
• Experience of managing large commercial sites with value in excess of 1.5m pa
• Management experience of service delivery in high profile offices
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing with all levels of staff and clients
• Ability to manage and prioritise a demanding and varying workload
• Ability to deliver projects on time and on budget.

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using [e-mail] if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role

Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us: [e-mail]

The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

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