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Position: Head of Contract Management
Requirements:

Job Overview / Purpose
The management of the pre-contract management, post-contract management and governance functions across the complete PRS business cycle. Control and manage any unnecessary and/or unapproved contract and legal risk. Enable improvements in business performance and effectiveness.

Accountabilities & Performance Indicators

Managing Contract & Legal Risk and Governance Programme
Provide management information at PRS Board level reporting any contractual and legal exposure to manage and mitigate unnecessary risk.
· Monthly reports to FD
· Attendance at country, regional and corporate risk and approval forums
· Availability of up-to-date information

Contract Negotiations with Customer / Suppliers
Lead contractual / legal negotiations with suppliers / customers on major opportunities
· Number of escalations
· Peer feedback

Contract Management Tools
Provide standard contract tools to the business designed to mitigate risk, to comply with risk and contract management policy and enable business performance.
· Annual feedback from PRS Board
· Biannual spot audit
· Availability and maintenance of standard contract management tools

Awareness & Training
Provision of contract management education, skills and techniques on behalf of all areas of the business to mitigate unnecessary contract and legal risk.
· EMB Feedback
· Delegate Feedback

Cost Centre Management
Manage, monitor and review functional cost centre(s) to comply with budgets and quality expectations.
· Monthly review of performance against budget and forecast

Personnel & Resource Management
Setting clear objectives, devising and communicating strategy, recruitment, performance management, building team dynamics, carrying out 1:1’s with the PRS Contract Management team to ensure that it functions as a cohesive high performing unit which achieves the targets and objectives set by the Company.
· People satisfaction survey results
· Staff Dialogues and Development plans
· Team objectives set and monitored
· Positive feedback from team
· Productive team meetings held regularly
· 1:1’s held
· Goals, targets and resource plans are met

Key Skills, Knowledge and Level
· 10 years minimum experience in a senior commercial role within a comparable services/outsourcing environment including Marketing/Account Management experience
· Acceptable qualification and practitioner competence in contract law and its application to commercial agreements
· Experience in financial evaluation and reporting
· Experience of managing multi disciplinary teams
· Experience in closing contracts and formal management of contract claims impacting on size and stability of multi million pound businesses

Key Criteria and Level
· Commercial Awareness - Enhances
· Business Awareness - Organisation
· Influencing - Creative
· Judgement & Decision Making - Champion
· Leadership - Motivates
· Relationship Building – Extends

Duration:

Permanent

Location:

M4 corridor.

Start Date:

ASAP

Salary:

Competitive

Email:

positions@phdit.com

Telephone:

+ 44 (0)20 -7190 2970

Reference:

02204

 

Ph.D. Search & Selection, 4 Lombard Street, London, EC3V 9AA

Telephone: + 44 (0)20 -7190 2970

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