Contract Manager

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Overview

Do you want to be help enrich the lives of learners worldwide?

At RM, we've been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector supporting over 10 million students around the world. We work with 28,000 schools, nurseries, and education trusts in 115 countries to deliver customer-centric solutions that improve education outcomes worldwide.

What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification. We partner with schools, examination boards, central governments and other professional institutions, to enrich the lives of learners.

Responsibilities

As a Legal & Contract Manager you will be part of the Group Legal Team within the Corporate Services division. Your focus will be on providing high quality commercial, legal and contract advice to RM's Assessment division. This will include a wide range of activities including dealing with the contractual and legal aspects of responding to a tender opportunity (in conjunction with our sales team), contract drafting, review and interpretation, developing and negotiating contractual agreements with customers, partners, re-sellers, and suppliers, and ensuring RM's compliance with various regulations. Therefore, an understanding of law, contractual terms and conditions, the ability to interpret and identify risks and issues along with mitigating actions will be essential to this role. The Legal & Contract Manager will also be expected to deal with the administrative aspects of the role and to take on increasing amounts of responsibility for a wide range of areas. These will include:

• Assist with the legal review of business opportunities across all stages of the bid process;
• Continually develop the commercial response bank, standard assumptions, standard customer obligations to support bid construction;
• Dealing with contract formation, variation and negotiation across all customers, partners, and suppliers;
• Contract handover and ongoing legal/contractual support to delivery and customer management teams;
• Advising colleagues regarding contract issues that arise in the course of business;
• Maintenance of legal resources and contract archives;
• Supporting the delivery of contract variations and renewals of contracts;
• Dealing with all administration of contractual documents, signing of agreements etc;
• Support for the process of 'productising' service offers and creation of standard terms and conditions;
• Assisting with company law matters; and
• Enforcement of the Group governance processes.

Experience

The position requires the following experience:

• The ability to interpret, draft and negotiate contractual documents.
• Knowledge and understanding of the bidding process, particularly for large international or government customers.
• Commercially astute and the ability to develop commercial models and recognise issues.
• Strong communication skills - verbal, written and electronic.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Effective planning and organising skills to handle the variety of work, and to prioritise activities across the team.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Excellent team working skills.
• The ability to recognise, assess, interpret, and mitigate risk.
• Own and manage relationships with senior staff and senior customer and partner contacts outside of RM.

What's in it for you?

At RM we have "My Work Blend @RM" which provides office-based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working options to suit them. As well as your office base in Abingdon, you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations in the UK that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process. We expect how we make best use of hybrid working may continue to adapt as we adjust to our new ways of working.

As well as a competitive salary and our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available. There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign for a health assessment, or take part in our cycle to work scheme. You could even earn yourself a bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM.

To better reflect the society that we serve, we're committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. To achieve this, we create teams of talented people from different backgrounds and experiences and strive to be a business where our people can bring their whole selves to work. We also want to make the recruitment process as inclusive as possible for everyone. Should you require additional support with your application or through the interview process, please contact us at recruitment@rm.com.

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.