Contract
Transport Contracts Manager - 2 year fixed contract
Transport Contracts Manager
£46,041 - £49,083 per annum
2 years fixed term contract
Full-time, 36 hours per week
Job Reference: R0006370
About us at Hounslow
We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
About The Role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Programme & Strategy team, as a Transport Contracts Manager. Reporting to the Programme & Strategy Manager, you will manage and monitor a number of contracts from across the Transport & Parking division. Initially these will include a new Transport Framework, as well as contracts for electric vehicle charging points, dockless e-bikes and car clubs.
You will work closely with the officers clienting the projects that are being delivered through these contracts, monitoring performance and ensuring that suppliers and the council adhere to contractual requirements. You will also play a leading role in the development of new or refreshed contracts in collaboration with the procurement team.
This is a great opportunity to further develop your contract management and review experience through a diverse portfolio of transport contracts, enhancing your skills in the process.
About The Team You’ll Be Working In
You’ll be working in the Programme & Strategy team, which sits within the Transport & Parking division. The team is responsible for delivering a number of the council’s strategic transport projects, as well as serving a Project Management Office function that monitors contracts, delivery and performance across the division.
A current focus is the development and delivery of a range of initiatives falling under the emerging Parking and Kerbside Strategy. The team is also responsible for a range of other strategic projects such the delivery of over 2000 new electric vehicle charging points. These transformational projects play an important part in delivering the Council’s Corporate Plan and transport objectives.
About You
If the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:
1. You have a strong track record of effective contract management, ensuring successful delivery of services and projects. Ideally, this will have been achieved at least partially within a local authority context, with knowledge of the transport sector a distinct advantage. You have acquired this strong track record by having excellent organisation skills, an ability to keep on top of day to day contract management and drive exemplary performance.
2.You have experience in developing and reviewing contract documents to meet service needs. Working closely with colleagues from across the division, you have the ability to rapidly grasp service requirements and translate this into robust contract and tender documentation.
3. You possess excellent oral communication and interpersonal skills. You have an open and approachable manner that allows you to engage positively and build strong relationships with colleagues, contractors, stakeholders and residents to drive the delivery of projects successfully. You have the confidence to resolve any contract issues or conflicts in a proactive, timely and mutually agreeable manner, or to take firm and decisive action when necessary.
4. You will have excellent written communication skills. You have an ability to summarise often complex proposals into non-technical language and draft clear, concise and accurate reports and summaries. Your written communications with colleagues and partners are similarly clear, well presented and received, leading to positive outcomes.
5. You have good IT skills. You have solid experience of using key Microsoft Office applications (eg Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, Project) to effectively set up, manage and monitor contracts.
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the Role Profile.
Don’t meet every single requirement? We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they think they can’t tick every box. At Hounslow, we realise the ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist. So, if you can do most of what we’re looking for, go ahead and apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or be perfect for one of our other roles!
When Interviews Will Be Held And Who To Contact
The key information you need about the role should be in the job description, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone:07976702051
Interviews for this job will be held during week commencing 1st April 2024.
Closing Date: 25th March 2024
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