Senior Contracts Manager (Engineering)

Senior Contracts Manager (Engineering)
Stockport
£ Competitive Salary Excellent Benefits

Role Profile

My client is an established engineering business in Stockport, looking to appoint a commercially astute Senior Contracts Manager to oversee and manage day to day operations within their Engineering Contracts Management team.

If you have experience in negotiating and managing customer contracts within an Engineering environment, and want to work for a fantastic business with a global customer base, then this could be the career move for you!

Benefits

• Flexitime and Hybrid working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Competitive pension contributions
• Great working environment and culture
• Fantastic opportunities for development and career progression

Key responsibilities:

• Oversee and manage a small team of Contracts Managers to ensure on time execution of customer quotations and contract negotiation, as well as delivery of customer orders / engineering work programs
• Manage the workload of the team, providing weekly KPI reports and forecasts to the Management team
• Manage a number of key customer accounts, acting as the single point of contact for all customer interactions, from initial quotations and planning through to final order execution and invoicing
• Prepare all technical and commercial aspects for Engineering Service quotations and orders, managing costs to agreed profitability / margins
• Coordinate all relevant work activities between customers, sub-contractors and field engineers to ensure contracts are delivered in line with agreed timescales and budgets
• Conduct customer site visits as needed

Skills & Experience:

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Previous experience as a Contracts Manager, with expertise in producing quotations and managing orders in a Field Service Engineering environment
• Proven leadership skills with previous line management / supervisory experience
• Strong commercial acumen, with a track record in successfully managing customer contracts to agreed costings / profit margin
• Excellent negotiation and influencing skills
• Willingness to undertake sporadic business travel as required, both in the UK and overseas

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