Working on the new build of a High-Speed railway project in the UK an Assistant Contract Manager will provide contract administrative duties on a major £190m professional services NEC3 contract, working for the client organisation for the High Speed Railway.

The ideal candidate will have administered Applications of Payments (AFP) on a NEC3 professional Services Contract, failing that would accept someone with NEC Contract Administrative experience on a professional service contract, without AFP experience, if you have excellent excel spreadsheets knowledge (able to create spreadsheets, formulas).

The role is initially working from Home, after which the organisation will decide whether it’s safe to move to a mixture of home and office (Birmingham city centre). 
 

Duties & Responsibilities

The Assistant Contract Manager will report to the Contract Manager. The main accountabilities will be to:

• Assist the Contract Manager and Senior contract Manager in their duties of managing a portfolio of professional service corporate contracts
• Contribute to the administration of NEC professional service contracts
• Administer applications of payments (NEC Contract)
• Assist in drafting documents to progress change requests through the company’s governance structure, systems
• Assist in compiling documents for compliance checks against contracts
• Assist in the production of contract management plans for each contract
• Review supplier performance against KPIs and performance measures
• Assist in the calculation of service credits and warranty payments
• Work to achieve value for money at each stage of the contract.
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Skills:

• Stakeholder management skills
• Ability to provide attention to detail, especially with regards to contract documentation
• Administrative skills.

Knowledge:

Type of experience:

• The ideal candidate will have administered Applications of Payments (AFP) on a NEC professional Services Contract, failing that would accept someone with NEC Contract Administrative experience on a professional service contract, without AFP experience, if you have excellent excel spreadsheets knowledge (able to create spreadsheets, formulas).

• Experience working in a commercial environment using NEC suite of contracts must be on a professional service contract
• Experience as assistant contract manager or have undertaken administrative duties on NEC professional service contract
• Stakeholder and supplier management skills
• Experience with a good range of programmes and software (especially Excel & Microsoft Office.
• Have experience working in a regulated environment – public sector, utility contract or other regulated environment with Governance, Assurance & Compliance.