Contract Manager | Theale | Permanent
🚀 We’re hiring: Contract Manager – Theale (3 days in office)
Are you an experienced Contract Manager with a strong commercial mindset and a background in telecommunications, infrastructure, utilities, technology, or a related sector?
We’re looking for a Contract Manager to join our Sales & Commercial Team and take ownership of a portfolio of complex Power as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Coverage as a Service (CaaS) contracts.
This is a key role focused on managing the full contract lifecycle, strengthening customer relationships, ensuring SLA and KPI performance, mitigating commercial risk, and supporting revenue growth.
What you’ll be doing:
🔹 Managing contracts from implementation through to renewals, extensions and amendments
🔹 Monitoring SLA, KPI and commercial performance
🔹 Building trusted relationships with customers and senior stakeholders
🔹 Identifying and mitigating contractual, commercial and operational risks
🔹 Supporting contract negotiations, dispute resolution and governance
🔹 Working closely with Legal, Finance, Technical, Operations and Account Management teams
🔹 Analysing contract data to identify opportunities and drive continuous improvement
What we’re looking for:
✅ Strong experience with contract management
✅ Experience managing complex commercial contracts across their full lifecycle
✅ Strong negotiation, communication and influencing skills
✅ Excellent analytical, organisational and stakeholder management abilities
✅ Commercial acumen and a customer-focused approach
Experience within mobile telecommunications infrastructure, utilities, PaaS, IaaS, CaaS, enterprise/public sector contracts, or professional contract/commercial qualifications such as CIPS, WCC or CCCM would be advantageous.
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