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Senior Contract Manager

Employer
Birmingham City Council
Location
BIRMINGHAM
Closing date
11 Nov 2024
Reference
1507
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Senior Contract Manager

Permanent

Grade 5 - £40,221 - £48,474

Consultation grade - subject to formal evaluation under the Pay Equity Review

Working 36.5 hours per week

Job Overview
As a Senior Contract Manager, your role will be critical to our journey of transformation. You'll work under the direction of the Lead Contract Manager, helping shape the way we manage our digital, data, and technology contracts and suppliers. You will manage a portfolio of contracts procured from various frameworks, ensuring that our services align and comply with their terms and conditions, and oversee the financial management for each contract. You’ll play a key role in managing stakeholders (both internally and externally) to ensure new service requirements have been through the appropriate governance and that there is a viable contract or procurement route in place to assist delivery of the service.

If you have experience in working in these or similar areas, then we would like to hear from you. Even more important than your recent previous experience is your drive, interest, and willingness to engage to help us deliver value to the business.

Key aspects of your role will include:

  • Supporting the management of digital, data, and technology contracts and suppliers, driving value and continual improvement.
  • Assisting in the development and maintenance of a robust contract and commercial management framework.
  • Collaborating closely with internal stakeholders to guide them towards achieving commercial excellence across the Council.

What Are We About
We're a team that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and the pursuit of excellence. Our vision is to provide exceptional value for our clients, create impactful solutions, and improve the lives of millions. As a Senior Contract Manager, your contribution will not just involve managing contracts but making a significant difference.

What Will You Do

Key responsibilities in your role as a Senior Contract Manager will include:

  • Supporting the Lead Contract Manager in supervising digital, data, and technology contracts and suppliers.
  • Ensuring robust cost control and contract compliance.
  • Providing guidance on all matters related to active contracts within the digital, data, and technology portfolio.
  • Managing variations to agreements, aligning them with strategic and operational goals.

We will support you with  

  • An environment that values curiosity, autonomy and working in the open  
  • An engaged and supportive leadership with a clear vision  
  • Training and development opportunities to help you progress and be the best you can be  
  • An inclusive workplace committed to reflecting the public we serve  
  • A benefit package designed to promote a great work life balance   
  • Exposure to all digital and technology teams and services areas across the council 

About us 

This is an exciting time to be joining Birmingham City Council’s Digital and Technology Services Department. We are Europe’s largest local authority, and with unprecedented investment in people and digital, a solid strategy, empowering leadership and a newly redesigned service to get behind, we are building digital services centred on the needs of our citizens, business and communities that will deliver on Birmingham’s bold ambitions for the city of today and tomorrow. 

We are a multidisciplinary team at the heart of transforming public services for the UK’s second largest city. We create, develop, deliver and operate an exceptionally diverse range of services that have a direct impact on improving the lives of 1.2m residents every day. 

We are embracing and promoting a truly digital, human centred approach for the whole organisation, underpinned by collaboration, openness and innovation. We take advantage of unparalleled access to data, doing things at scale and using technology creatively to re-imagine the way services are delivered and build the digital council of the future. 

You must upload a Supporting Statement and CV via the attachments part of your application. This is required for shortlisting; you need to describe how your experience and skills fit the essential criteria for the role as specified in the Person Specification. If you do not attach your Supporting Statement and CV your application will not be considered.

For any informal enquires please contact: Emma Coles (emma.coles@birmingham.gov.uk)

Ref: BCC1507

We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.

Job Description and Person Specification: Senior Contract Manager GR5 JDPS.docx

Company

Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city.

We welcome people from diverse and underrepresented communities and encourage applications from, those with caring responsibilities, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, neurodivergent, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff and removing barriers to improve inclusion.   We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.

Information for applicants with a disability

We are a proud Disability Confident Employer.  We encourage applicants to disclose disabilities, so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Please contact: 0121 675 7070 option 3 (lines open between 8.45am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday).

If you require an application in an alternative format, such as Braille or you are unable to complete an application form via WMJOBS, please contact bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk. When you have completed your application form this can be returned to bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk or for Braille applications these can be posted to, Recruitment Team, 2nd Floor, 10 Woodcock Street, B7 4BG.

The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence. 

There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:

  • A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
  • An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
  • A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
  • A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
  • A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.

We see the Council’s role as providing strategic leadership – that’s being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making.

We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision.  We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.

In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.

Birmingham City Council is a Foundation Living wage employer - known as the Birmingham Living Wage. The Birmingham Living Wage, is determined by the Living Wage Foundation on an annual basis by the Centre of Research in Society Polity at Loughborough University. The current rate can be found at: www.livingwage.org.uk.   

For the awards and support for our employees, please follow https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/homepage/169/job_vacancies  

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Birmingham City Council
Birmingham
West Midlands
B2 2XU
United Kingdom

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