Contracts Administrator in Sunbury-on-Thames

Responsibilities

• Support development of the procurement and contracting strategy, ensuring alignment with project objectives, schedule, risk profile, and governance requirements.
• Work with project, engineering, commercial and procurement teams to define the required scope, work packages and contracting model.
• Support preparation of procurement plans, tender strategies, market engagement plans, approval papers and decision documents required ahead of go-to-market activity.
• Identify key procurement risks, opportunities, dependencies and long-lead considerations.
• Coordinate market engagement and supplier input to test contracting options, execution models, commercial structures and supplier capability ahead of formal tendering.
• Support development of tender documentation, evaluation criteria, commercial schedules, and clarification processes in line with procurement governance.
• Support bid evaluation, negotiation preparation, recommendation papers and award documentation.
• Provide contract and commercial support during early contract mobilisation and project execution, including administration of contract deliverables, obligations, payments, changes and key commercial interfaces.
• Support contract performance management by tracking supplier deliverables, commercial milestones, risks, issues and required decisions.
• Provide practical contractual and commercial input to project teams on emerging issues, interpretation of contract requirements, and available options.
• Support management of variations, amendments, claims, and commercial correspondence where required, ensuring appropriate governance and approvals are followed.
• Support governance reviews, commercial approvals, management reporting and stakeholder communications related to procurement strategy and tender progress.

Qualifications

• Professional technical or legal qualification.
• Strong working knowledge of the full procurement lifecycle, particularly front-end strategy development, sourcing, tendering, evaluation, negotiation, award and early contract management.
• Experience supporting procurement or commercial activity on major capital, energy, offshore, infrastructure, or industrial projects.
• Strong commercial and negotiation skills, with the ability to support value-based outcomes and balanced risk allocation.
• Good understanding of contracting models, commercial structures, payment mechanisms, change control and contract governance.
• Ability to work effectively within cross-functional, integrated project teams and align procurement activity with engineering, project controls, legal, finance and delivery requirements.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills across multiple levels and disciplines.
• Highly organised and proactive, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, actions, approvals and tender deliverables in a dynamic project environment.