Contract Manager
Building Design, Planning, Development
Infrastructure Contract Manager
- Infrastructure Programme
- Location: North West England / Hybrid
- Salary: Negotiable, competitive benefits package
Role overview
An opportunity has arisen for a Contract Manager to join a leading infrastructure organisation.
The role will suit a Contract Manager with strong commercial and contract management experience within complex infrastructure or construction-led environments. Operating within a client-side managed services setting, the role focuses on commercial governance, contract assurance, and effective management of delivery partner obligations throughout design, construction, and transition into long-term operations.
What this role offers
- Involvement in a nationally significant infrastructure programme
- Long-term programme exposure with strong pipeline visibility
- Client-side perspective within a professional managed services environment
- Opportunity to work alongside experienced project, technical, commercial, and financial teams
Key responsibilities
Contract and commercial management
- Support the administration and management of key delivery contracts across the programme lifecycle
- Monitor compliance with contractual obligations, performance mechanisms, and reporting requirements
- Support formal change management processes, including variations and contractual correspondence
Change control and risk management
- Support early warning processes and assessment of contractual and commercial risk
- Maintain contract management risk and opportunity registers
- Assist with dispute avoidance and issue resolution in collaboration with project and legal teams
Financial and commercial oversight
- Support cost monitoring, forecasting, and payment mechanisms
- Assist with the assessment and validation of contractor applications and commercial submissions
- Liaise with finance teams to ensure accurate commercial reporting
Stakeholder coordination
- Act as a commercial interface between delivery partners, advisers, and internal stakeholders
- Support commercial governance forums and contract management reviews
- Prepare commercial briefings, dashboards, and reports for senior stakeholders
Compliance, assurance, and reporting
- Support audit, regulatory, and assurance requirements
- Contribute to ESG, sustainability, and social value reporting where contractually required
- Support continuous improvement of contract and commercial management processes
Skills and experience
Essential
- Demonstrable contract management experience within complex infrastructure or construction-led environments
- Strong understanding of commercial and contractual governance within multi-party delivery models
- Experience working client-side, consultancy-side, or in an oversight or assurance capacity
- Ability to manage change control, commercial risk, and contract reporting across multiple stakeholders
Desirable
- Experience working with regulated infrastructure or long-term concession models
- Exposure to water, utilities, transport, or linear infrastructure projects
- Familiarity with standard forms of contract used in major infrastructure delivery
- Understanding of whole-life cost and operational considerations
Personal attributes
- Commercially focused and detail driven
- Comfortable operating without direct line authority
- Structured, organised, and process orientated
- Confident in challenging delivery partners constructively
- Calm and credible with senior stakeholders
