Role: Senior Contracts Manager
Organisation Sector: Health
Length: 3 months
Contract Type: Full Time
Location: London
Working Pattern: 3 days on-site, 2 days remote
Pay: £ per day (Umbrella)
We are currently recruiting for a health organisation, who are looking for a Senior Contracts Manager within their Assets and Property department on a three-month contract in London. The role is operating a hybrid model with three days on-site in their London offices.
Your new role
You will undertake a three-month review of contracts held within the directorate, assessing the effectives of current contract management practices, identifying where the trust is not receiving the services, performance levels or value within contractual agreements and highlighting opportunities for cost savings. You will identify gaps inpliance, performance monitoring and supplier delivery, providing rmendations to strengthen contract oversight and maximise financial efficiency.
Key Responsibilities
1. Standardise contract management practices across the directorate to ensure consistency, transparency, and audit readiness
2. Produce high-quality performance reports, highlighting risks, underperformance, and opportunities for improvement
3. Lead the identification, assessment and mitigation ofmercial financial, operational and regulatory risks within contracts.
4. Horizon scan for emerging risks, regulatory changes and market developments, reporting implications to senior stakeholders.
5. Review the financial aspects of contracts including invoicing, credits, reconciliations and final accounts (if applicable).
6. Analyse contract spend to identify opportunities for cost reduction, consolidation and improvedmercial oues.
What you'll need to succeed
7. Significant experience in contract management, procurement, ormercial management within aplex organisation.
8. Demonstrable experience managing high value, high risk, or strategically important contracts.
9. Strong analytical andmercial acumen, with the ability to interpretplex data and contractual terms.
10. Expert knowledge of public sector procurement regulations, NHSernance frameworks, and contract law principles.
11. Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and negotiate effectively with suppliers.
12. Experience developingernance frameworks, performance monitoring systems, and risk management tools.
13. High level of autonomy, with the ability to managepeting priorities and deliver strategic oues.