Contract Manager & SRM Process Manager - SC

Role: Contract Manager & SRM Process Manager - SC Location: Hybrid – 2 days max at Aldermaston site/week (Ad Hoc travel to London may be required infrequently) IR35: Inside Rate: £61.75/hr (Umbrella) MAX Duration: 18 Months initially Security Clearance: SC & UK nationality Minimum Requirement: Supply chain processes, systems, governance and business reporting. Drafting and negotiating contract terms, ensuring compliance with contractual, legislative and regulatory requirements. Data analytics and Market Intelligence. Realise opportunities for savings and efficiencies. Provision of standard and bespoke business reports, analysis etc and material for functional performance metrics and reviews. Identification and management of risks and opportunities within area of accountability. Developing and maintaining positive and productive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and promoting awareness of the Commercial function. Work closely and ensure alignment with the Category Management and Procurement Operations teams. Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player. Essential: Commercial Knowledge and Supplier Relationship management Reporting capability primarily from P2P systems Knowledge of Defence sector or public sector Support implementation of frameworks Strong Understanding of Supplier Relationship Management Desirable: CIPS Key Accountabilities: Provide technical expertise in one or more of the following specialisms: Supply chain processes, systems, governance and business reporting. Drafting and negotiating contract terms, ensuring compliance with contractual, legislative and regulatory requirements. Data analytics and Market Intelligence. Realise opportunities for savings and efficiencies. Provision of standard and bespoke business reports, analysis etc and material for functional performance metrics and reviews. Identification and management of risks and opportunities within area of accountability. Developing and maintaining positive and productive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders and promoting awareness of the Supply Chain Management function. Work closely and ensure alignment with the Category Management and Procurement Operations teams. Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player. Key Responsibilities: Compliance Draft contractual governance and assist with negotiations within the Supply Chain function, support in producing and maintaining a library of clauses and standard contract templates ensuring compliance with mandatory flow down terms and conditions and maintaining an awareness of legal matters, support with the compliance of the M&O contract with particular focus to Schedule 37 and 38 to determine the risk and compliance agenda, support and maintain the risk management tracking and methodology, effective control of risk and compliance and informing of changes to legislation/regulations, support and represent SCM’s external relationships with the MoD and other stakeholders, support internal and external audit activities. Analytics and Market Intelligence Use Spend Analytics to provide actionable insights that support and shape the future demand of the business through its budgeting and decision-making processes, Translate datasets and analysis into actionable and easy-to-understand insights and recommendations , Enable accurate and confident decision-making in the procurement process Market intelligence providing industry and supply market intelligence research and analysis relevant to the company’s supplier markets to SCM and the wider business, Collate and manage spend data ensuring it is cleansed and categorised accurately for spend analysis. Reporting & SCM Systems Support in the delivery of best practice reporting for SCM, Work alongside category management and business cost analyst teams to define standard metrics and KPIs that ensure high quality MI/BI reporting tools, Contribute to developing best practice on MI production and key reporting tools, Use best practice tools to produce Supplier Health checks, produce and review the benefits tracking and reporting process, support the Supply Chain lead for all tools and applications relating to the function. Process. Support functional and process direction to the source-to-pay process, supplier risk management and relationship management, providing a roadmap that drives standardisation and process improvement. and future business requirements and are in line with best practice, Support and maintain focus and capability for continuous improvement. Conduct ongoing best practice research and benchmarking, support and maintain appropriate source-to-pay process governance, publish and maintain as required and integrate into the Business Management System. Support to define, create and maintain the Procurement & Supply Chain policy, source-to-pay standard operating procedures and supporting documents. Security Clearance: SC Disability Confident As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. Armed Forces Covenant CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.  If you qualify for the above, please notify us on (phone number removed). We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview. Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know. To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on (phone number removed)