Commercial Contract Manager

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About The Role

We are actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone.

Role: Commercial Contract Manager

Location: Birmingham (SCC operate hybrid working, which comprises of a mix of office and home working)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary Package: £35,000 to £45,000 plus large company benefits, a broad flexible benefits scheme, and 2 paid-for volunteering days a year

Hours: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm Monday - Friday. We also offer the opportunity to benefit from a Core Hours arrangement (role-specific), providing flexibility around your personal needs

Interview Process: 2-stage process

Why SCC?

• An inclusive workplace
• Excellent package: solid basic and company benefits
• Hybrid working & core hours in line with role requirements
• Career development and life-long learning opportunities
• Opportunity to join Europe's largest privately-owned IT Company

Security Clearance (or the willingness to apply) is required for this role

Role purpose:

We are recruiting for a Commercial Contract Manager to join our thriving Commercial Services team, providing end-to-end commercial support and governance for our sales and services businesses.

This role is primarily to deliver expert contract management for a number of high value managed services contracts and will be highly visible within our enterprise and the individual will have strong risk and relationship management experience. The role is critical to managing commercial risk and revenue leakage within our organisation and requires an individual with experience of managing IT contracts.

Key responsibilities:

• Drafting / modifying contract terms and schedules, ensuring that assumptions, caveats, and limitations provided by other areas of SCC's business are clearly defined in the terms
• Holding regular contract reviews with service / operational owners to ensure the contracts remain profitable and that SCC's interests are protected
• Ensuring that the contracts correctly reflect the underpinning cost model and that commercial risks are mitigated
• Ensuring appropriate contracts / flow downs are agreed with any sub-contractors and there is alignment between SCC's obligations with its customers and those delivered through a sub-contract
• Acting as a definitive authority / point of contact on the contents and deliverables of the contract for the operational and service management team
• Providing on-going contract oversight and management
• Managing the change process, negotiating any change controls to the contract during its term
• Managing contract indexation and price increase activities
• Proactively identifying contract optimisation opportunities
• Working with the operational and service teams to help ensure SCC's contractual obligations are met
• Building strategic working relationships with internal and external customers
• Providing support and guidance to account managers and service managers when contract exit terms are questioned or challenged
• Negotiating exit provisions/charges with the Customer, where required

Skills and experience:

• Previous commercial/Procurement experience
• Supplier management experience
• Contract management knowledge
• Good communication & IT skills

About Us

SCC is Europe's largest privately-owned IT business, based out of the new £7m HQ office in Birmingham and we help clients succeed through IT transformation and exceptional customer experiences. We are a business where innovation is greater as we combine unique ideas, people and disciplines. We are a global company that is passionate about IT and where we look to simplify the complex.

We are an equal opportunities employer

SCC is committed to providing equal opportunities and a proactive and inclusive approach to equality and diversity in employment. No applicant or employee will be treated less favourably than another on the grounds of a protected characteristic which are defined as sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender reassignment, trade union membership or non-membership, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race and religion or belief.

If you are selected for interview, and need any reasonable adjustments made for your interview, please let the SCC Talent Acquisition team know, at the point of scheduling.

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