Senior Contract Manager

PFH Technology Group; Dublin; On-site; EUR 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

PFH Technology Group in Dublin is seeking a Senior Contract Manager to lead the transition of contract management into a fully operational model within the Office of the CTTO. The role focuses on governance, compliance, and value-for-money outcomes across a public sector context.

You will drive the roadmap, assess contract actions, manage expiry risk, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to optimise contract performance and record-keeping.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in public sector procurement governance.
• Experience using contract management systems and governance reporting.
• Ability to identify process gaps and drive improvements in contract management.
• Experience managing contract renewals, extensions and variations.
• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop a strategic roadmap to transition contract management to an operational model.
• Identify gaps and drive continuous improvement in governance and reporting.
• Oversee expiry reviews, approvals, and replacement planning for contracts.
• Monitor compliance with procurement requirements and governance arrangements.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across the Office of the CTTO and Procurement.
• Provide guidance on contract management processes and decision points.

Skills

Contract management systems

Public sector procurement

Governance

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Analytical skills

Communication

Procurement legislation

Education

Procurement/Contract management/Law/Business/Project management qualification

Tools

Contract management software

Procurement dashboards

Job description

PFH Technology Group are currently recruiting for a Senior Contract Manager to work with our client. This role is an initially a 12 month daily rate contract position.

Role Overview

As a Senior Contract Manager you will require significant experience and a deep understanding in Public Sector Procurement and Governance. You will develop a roadmap and execute the automation of the digital contract management process, ensuring compliance with public procurement regulations, robust contract governance and achievement of value for money.

This will require a review of the existing contract landscape, identifying short-term cost and contract optimisation opportunities to establish more consistent and sustainable processes with longer-term benefits of improved governance, ensuring an increasing level of maturity within the organisation.

You will help assess whether proposed contract actions are supported by appropriate contractual provisions and governance approvals and consider the impact of incomplete, unsupported, or non-compliant contract proposals.

The role requires procurement assurance and audit compliance requiring proactive management of contract expiry and renewal activity, supplier performance, contract consumption, commercial and operational risk, service continuity and the maintenance of accurate contract records.

You will collaborate with senior stakeholders across the Office of the CTTO and other functions, including Procurement.

Key Responsibilities:

Process Development and Continuous Improvement

• Develop a strategic roadmap to execute the transition of contract management into a fully operational model within the Office of the CTTO.
• Accountability for development of a contract management capability to promote consistent application of contract management, governance processes and reporting.
• Identify process gaps, control weaknesses, duplication, and opportunities for improved efficiency.
• Contribute to periodic reviews of the contract portfolio to identify strategic, financial, governance, or operational improvement opportunities
• Support the orderly transition or exit from contracts where services are being replaced, consolidated, transferred, or discontinued.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, ensuring operational efficiencies, cost savings, and enhanced service delivery.

Contract Oversight and Forward Planning

• Proactively identify contracts approaching expiry and initiate the required review, assessment and decision-making processes sufficiently in advance to minimise the risk of contract expiry without an approved replacement arrangement.
• Ensure that contract changes, variations, extensions, expiries and other contractual actions are appropriately assessed, approved, documented, and implemented.
• Monitor contract activity for compliance with applicable public procurement requirements, organisational policies, approval thresholds, and governance arrangements.

Financial Management and Value for Money

• Develop KPIs, Reports to measure and track contract spend, service performance and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Assess the financial implications of contract renewal, extension, variation, termination, transition, and replacement.
• Identify potential overspend, uncommitted expenditure, duplicate costs, financial exposure, and emerging budget pressures.

Stakeholder Management

• Work collaboratively with contract owners, service managers, procurement, finance and senior management to establish a streamlined contract management process(s).
• Coordinate stakeholder input to contract reviews, renewal decisions, negotiations, procurement exercises, transition plans, and governance submissions.
• Provide practical guidance to stakeholders on contract management processes, documentation, approval requirements, and decision points.

Risk and Issue Management

• Ensure contract recommendations include a balanced assessment of risk, cost, service impact, deliverability, and compliance.
• Monitor compliance with contractual, regulatory, audit, financial, and procurement requirements.
• Support internal and external audit requirements and implement corrective actions where necessary.

Experience & Skills Required:

• Experience in using contract management systems, procurement analytics and dashboards.
• Significant experience managing contracts within a public sector or regulated environment.
• Strong understanding of public procurement legislation and governance requirements.
• Experience managing contract renewals, extensions, and procurement exercises.
• Strong stakeholder management and supplier relationship skills.
• Excellent analytical, negotiation, relationship management and communication abilities.
• Relevant qualification in procurement, contract management, law, business, or project management.
• Experience working within the public sector, a regulated environment, or an organisation operating within formal governance and accountability structures.
• Experience developing contract management procedures, templates, registers, dashboards, and reporting frameworks.
• Knowledge of Office of Government Procurement frameworks and public sector procurement arrangements.

PFH Technology, owned by Ricoh – a Japanese based global ICT company, is a premier provider of end-to-end ICT solutions and a managed services portfolio scaling from SMEs to large Enterprise organisations. We have unrivalled vendor relationships. We can procure, design, deploy and support all your ICT needs. Our ISO certified Custodian™ Cloud Services and Custodian™ Managed Services provide the technology and expertise to mitigate risk and reduce your costs immediately. We have a nationwide network of over 750 dedicated professionals, ready to meet your ICT needs, with offices in Dublin, Cork and Galway.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at PFH.

We do not discriminate on the basis of age, disability, civil or family status, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, or any other legally protected status.

We are committed to ensuring that individuals with disabilities or access needs are provided with reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process, to perform essential job functions, and to access the full benefits of employment. Please contact us if you require accommodation at any stage