About The Role
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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 - £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
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
Role purpose:
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. 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:
* The Commercial Contract Manager will have responsibility for a defined scope of contracts and will take accountability for supporting the end-to-end needs of our business units, providing pre-sales and sales support and in-life contract management, including:
In-Contract
* 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 ongoing 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.
Contract Exit
* 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:
We are looking to hear from commercial practitioners who have broad commercial experience across contract management, supplier management and procurement ideally with experience in IT services, commercial management and supply chain management. This role would suit the following previous employment types:
1. Commercial Contract Managers;
2. Procurement Managers;
3. Commercial Managers.
Suitability for interview for the position will require evidence of at least one of the following:
* Previous Commercial / Procurement role within the IT industry;
* Previous Supplier Management Role;
* Previous Contract Management Role.
Candidates must have excellent IT and communications skills, be able to evidence practical experience of similar roles and articulate the challenges faced in modern IT commercial management.
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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