About the role
Are you an ambitious and inspirational individual with the capability to manage a range of key contracts to ensure our commissioning priorities are met?
Then we want to hear from you!
Cambridgeshire County Council is looking for a Senior Contracts Manager. This is a unique opportunity to be part of an established high performing team with an outstanding reputation for leading the way in our Adult’s Commissioning Directorate.
Can you rise to the challenge? Cambridgeshire County Council is embarking on a new phase of service delivery after a period of joint working with Peterborough City Council and this brings some exciting opportunities to work with us. With a new Executive Director for Adults, Health and Commissioning joining us soon, we will focus solely on services to the citizens of Cambridgeshire and we have bold ambitions to achieve excellent standards. If you have the passion for putting social care at the heart of everything you do and the ambition to help shape our future, we would love to hear from you.
If you would welcome this new challenge then apply online today or, for an informal chat about the role, contact Gurdev.singh@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of a Standard Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
What will you be doing?
The successful candidate will:
• Be line managed by the Head of Service –Commercial, Contracts, and Brokerage
• Be part of a creative forward-thinking management team
• Have lead responsibility for all elements of contract management including line managing contracts managers
• Lead on all associated stakeholder relationship management, contract monitoring, and manage delivery
• Have responsibility for identifying, managing, and delivering improvement plans
• Relish the opportunity to join a recognised high functioning, accountable and dynamic team.
About you
The successful candidate will:
• Be a highly motivated, pro-active, and innovative contracts manager with substantial experience of specialist care services such as learning disabilities, within a local government arena
• Have comprehensive commercial experience of managing complex contracts from building and nurturing effective relationships with care providers, health services, and other external strategic partners.
• Have experience of being the single point of access to senior internal stakeholders. This will include developing and reporting on improvement plans, monitoring approaches, financial plans, provider strategies, and quality/safeguarding concerns escalation as appropriate.
• Be able to demonstrate drive and determination to ensure our vision, aims and business objectives are comprehensively delivered on time, to budget, offering value for money services that do not compromise on quality or achievement of identified outcomes.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits:
- Flexible working
- Flexible Bank Holidays
- A comprehensive wellbeing package
- Our Cambs Rewards employee discounts
- A comprehensive pension scheme.
- IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network.
- Camweb our staff intranet helping to keep you informed
- An employee recognition scheme
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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