Contract Manager

at  CANADIAN NUCLEAR LABORATORIES CNL

Are you looking for a role that will challenge you? If you answered yes, our Chalk River location is looking for a Contract Manager to provide leadership and oversight related to contract management activities. Can you see yourself collaboratively working with site managers and ensuring contracting strategy and plans are well defined? Does the idea of managing the contractual requirements and relationships between CNL and Contractors/Suppliers sound appealing? If you answered yes, then this may be the job for you!
What will you be doing!
Providing authoritative professional advice and support to Sites Managers and Internal Customers through the management of contracts and relationships with Contractors/Suppliers.
Managing an effective relationship with the Contractor/Supplier.
Promoting and ensuring a customer service-orientated approach to delivery requirements with recognition of relevant constraints, timelines and budgets.
Providing oversight and development of Contract Execution Plans to support administration/management of contracts, as required.
Developing or supporting the development of appropriate Category Management Plans alongside Contract Officers, Contract Administrators and Contract Leads.
Reading, analyzing, providing advice and applying the contract in daily transactions and in minor disputes.
Providing oversight and leading the development of negotiation strategies, negotiations and resolution of relevant commercial/contractual issues (i.e., contract changes, disputes, claims, etc.), relationship management, administration and performance management/oversight, including appropriate financial, change and risk management.
Co-ordinating, leading and/or supporting Contract Kick-off Meetings, and supporting the Contractor/Supplier Progress meetings.
Functioning as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) during contract execution, for all commercial and contractual matters between CNL and the Contractor/Supplier.
Liaising and working with other functional groups including Legal, Quality Assurance, Safety, and Finance, as required throughout the contract execution lifecycle.
Working with and seeking appropriate advice from CNL Legal on contract amendments, determining contract risks, potential resolutions/disputes, and claims.
Managing Contract Change Control to ensure that changes are identified early, evaluated, negotiated, documented, funded and approved as per contractual requirements.
Ensuring Contract logs are managed, contract deliverables are tracked, and all contract documentation is filed in accordance with Document Control procedures.
Documenting, logging, managing and tracking decisions and events relevant to the contract agreement.
Supporting invoice validation to ensure compliance with contractual requirements, and monitoring the timely payments to Contractors/Suppliers.
Monitoring expenditures and accruals against the contract, and working with Internal Customers to ensure accuracy of financial information.
Providing advice and applying specialized knowledge in developing contract administration processes, procedures and tools.
Verifying in conjunction with the Contract Team that all contractual obligations, including the technical and commercial conditions are fulfilled throughout the contract.
Verifying contract completion and ensuring that all work has been completed, and that all deficiencies and administrative matters have been resolved.
Enforcing a proportional performance management approach to individual contracts, consistent with the contract requirements, including but not limited to monitoring of contract cost, schedule, quality, and technical performance, as well as the implementation of CNL Contractor Performance Scorecards, as applicable.
Participating in/leads Lessons Learned meetings, and/or documents and sharing any Lessons Learned that were identified during contract execution, and ensuring such lessons are relayed for future procurements or Contractor/Supplier development.
Identifying and recommending improvements to complex processes that affect own area and others/Internal Customers.
Participating, leading where identified, and implementing process/procedure creation and/or improvements.
Responding to situations to contain/mitigate short-term risk in accordance with established processes and procedures.
Collating necessary information regarding contract(s), to provide input to Relationship Development Plans, and relevant Steering Committees or meetings of Senior Representatives.
Ensuring they are sufficiently familiar with the work and the progress of the Work, including an appropriate level of attendance at the Work Site, as applicable.

Please refer the Job description for details