Position: Contracts Manager
Location: Falmer, East Sussex – remote working available, occasional office travel required.
Hours: 40 hours per week.
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.
What will you be responsible for?
As a Contracts Manager, you'll be working within the Southern Water framework team, supporting them on Lot 2 (Waste water). Your responsibilities include providing leadership and management oversight to the projects in the western sector. As a senior member of the Lot 2 delivery team, you'll be driving and monitoring efficient delivery as projects progress through the Pre‑Construction phase and onward through Stage 2 (detailed design, construction, commissioning and handover).
Your Day To Day Will Include
* Being accountable for successful delivery of the Lot 2 projects in your region.
* Collaborate with Kier’s internal preconstruction team to develop prices, programmes and risk allocation for submission to the client.
* Collaborate with Southern Water Capital Delivery and other key Southern Water stakeholders—including but not limited to ETS, Operations and commercial teams—to facilitate agreement of proposed target costs.
* Embed Get It Right Initiative (GIRI) practices and culture into daily, weekly and monthly routines.
* Facilitate liaison between Operations, Commercial and Pre‑construction teams to ensure attainment of overall programme.
What are we looking for?
* Have a strong knowledge of NEC contracting.
* Understanding of regulated clients, in particular those in the water industry.
* Track record of managing major delivery portfolios.
* Have strong and resilient negotiating skills.
* Full Driving Licence.
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don’t tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards and Benefits
We’re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and Inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.
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