Contract Manager

Yunex Traffic; Poole; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company vehicle

Excellent pension scheme with up to 10

Flexible benefits

Ongoing training and development

26 days holiday (rising to 29)

Job summary

Yunex Traffic in Leicester, UK, seeks a Service Delivery Manager to oversee enforcement service contracts, ensuring they meet customer expectations, contractual commitments and budgets. You will coordinate across Projects, Operational Support and Solutions Engineering, acting as the primary customer contact and driving continuous improvement.

Responsibilities include leading contract reviews, developing customer relationships to secure extensions, monitoring performance with KPIs, supporting

Qualifications

• Operational or commercial background with a formal business qualification.
• Excellent communication with customers, partners and colleagues at all levels.
• Confident to negotiate and conclude complex contractual discussions.
• Able to interpret Contract Terms and Conditions and manage costs and risk.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Microsoft Project.

Responsibilities

• Influence leadership to set objectives aligned with contract requirements; ensure SLAs are met and drive continuous improvement.
• Produce performance reports with Account management and Business Analyst; interpret statistics for improvement.
• Oversee contract financial performance; identify cost-saving opportunities and drive productivity.
• Conduct contract service reviews; gather feedback on performance and identify sales opportunities.
• Develop customer relationships and strategies to deliver contract extensions and retention.
• Collaborate on new service offerings with existing customers to support growth.
• Use Net Promoter Score to evaluate performance and identify customer-experience improvements.
• Support tenders and future contracts from a service-delivery perspective.
• Assist service mobilisations to meet go-live contractual expectations.
• Influence PLM and Product Development to meet future service needs and cost goals.
• Prepare quotations and facilitate orders for framework agreements.
• Contribute to sales forecasts and CRM updates.

Skills

Operational background

Commercial background

Business qualification

ITS industry experience

Contract negotiation

Education

Formal business qualification

Tools

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project)

Job description

Location: Leicester, GB, LE19 1WY Home, GB Dorset, GB, BH23 6BU Lowton, GB, WN7 3PT Poole, GB, BH17 7ER

Type of Employment: Full-time

Career Level: Professional

Job Family: Customer Services

Service Delivery Manager – Traffic Enforcement

This role has overall responsibility for ensuring our Enforcement Service contracts are delivered in line with customer expectations, contractual commitments and financial budgets. Working closely with customers and internal delivery teams, you will coordinate service delivery across Projects, Operational Support and Solutions Engineering, ensuring key operational functions work collaboratively to achieve customer outcomes and business objectives. You will serve as a primary point of contact for our customers, with responsibility for contract performance, representing the voice of the customer and identifying future business opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Assist the service delivery team’s leadership by influencing and establishing clear objectives aligned with contract requirements. Ensure service levels are met and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Work with Account management team and Business Analyst to produce performance monitoring reports, interpret statistics and act as appropriate to facilitate continual improvement.
• Responsible for contract financial performance and through effective cost control, identify areas for improvement and actively drive the teams for increased productivity and overall effectiveness.
• Implement thorough contract service reviews to facilitate close communication with customers. These reviews allow for feedback on current performance levels, solution effectiveness, and potential sales opportunities.
• Develop customer relationships and strategies to deliver contract extensions and retentions being the voice of the customer internally to ensure business success.
• Develop new and enhanced service offerings with existing customers to support business growth aspirations.
• Utilize the Net Promoter Score as a means to evaluate performance and identify opportunities to improve the customer experience.
• Support future tendering activities on future contracts from a service delivery perspective.
• Support new contract service mobilisations, ensuring the Enforcement service model is fully implemented and ensure contractual service expectations are delivered from system Go live.
• Influence PLM and Product Development activities to support future service requirements, system resilience, achieving cost reductions and the future needs of our customers.
• Prepare Quotations / Facilitate order entry of framework orders for all existing business.
• Contribute to the sales forecast and provide routine updates in the CRM tool.

Qualifications & Experience

• An operational or commercial background coupled with a formal business qualification and experience within the ITS industry is desirable.
• The role requires excellent communication skills, with customers, external partners and internal colleagues at all levels.
• Confident to initiate, negotiate, and conclude difficult contractual discussions where necessary to ensure that change is managed and communicated effectively.
• Able to make informed decisions on service contracts based on interpretations of Contract Terms and Conditions and Contract Specifications.
• A good understanding of financial risks and risk management tools is essential as is the ability to influence costs throughout the service delivery phase.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Microsoft Project.

We offer

• Competitive base salary plus annual bonus
• 26 days holiday (rising to 29 with service)
• 37.5-hour working week
• Company vehicle
• Excellent pension scheme with up to 10% employer contribution
• Flexible benefits tailored to your needs
• Ongoing training and development, including support for professional memberships