Contract Manager

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
Balfour Beatty has an exciting opportunity for a Contract Manager to join our Living Places team working on our highways maintenance contract with Telford & Wrekin Council.
As Contract Manager, you will provide leadership and accountability for the performance of the Telford & Wrekin Highways
Maintenance Contract. You will be responsible for excellent customer and stakeholder relationships as well as operational management for the delivery of core planned and reactive maintenance and capital works enhancement schemes. The role is the key customer contact for the contract and is responsible to the Area Director and Head of Commercial.

What you’ll be doing

• Developing and instilling a positive culture for the achievement of Zero Harm across both contracts and support BB Living Places in their improvement initiatives for Safety, health, environmental, sustainability and quality
• The successful delivery of the annual budgets. Provide tangible actions to deliver stretch targets to budgeted Revenue, Profit and Cash targets improvements
• Developing a plan to meet the requirements of the UKCS strategy and business improvement initiatives.
• Customer engagement and managing key account relationships
• Identifying work winning opportunities and pipeline management to ensure growth and achievement of contract extensions
• Compliance with the Gated Business Lifecycle across the two contracts and utilisation ofthe Digital Briefcase
• Delivering the monthly reports and business reviews
• Managing cashflow, debtors and limiting WIP to ensure cash backed profit is delivered
• Succession planning and talent management. This also includes dealing with performance issues and regularly reviewing behaviours and engagement within the teams.

Who we’re looking for

What you’ll be doing

• Developing and instilling a positive culture for the achievement of Zero Harm across both contracts and support BB Living Places in their improvement initiatives for Safety, health, environmental, sustainability and quality
• The successful delivery of the annual budgets. Provide tangible actions to deliver stretch targets to budgeted Revenue, Profit and Cash targets improvements
• Developing a plan to meet the requirements of the UKCS strategy and business improvement initiatives.
• Customer engagement and managing key account relationships
• Identifying work winning opportunities and pipeline management to ensure growth and achievement of contract extensions
• Compliance with the Gated Business Lifecycle across the two contracts and utilisation ofthe Digital Briefcase
• Delivering the monthly reports and business reviews
• Managing cashflow, debtors and limiting WIP to ensure cash backed profit is delivered
• Succession planning and talent management. This also includes dealing with performance issues and regularly reviewing behaviours and engagement within the teams

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more