Contracts Manager| Primus | Commercial, Small Works & Critical Environment Delivery
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£35,000-£50,000 per annum
Role Purpose
The Contracts Manager will support the pricing, qualification, coordination, delivery, and commercial control of small works and strategically aligned project opportunities. This role is central to strengthening Primus's delivery discipline, protecting margin, improving quote turnaround, and ensuring opportunities are progressed in line with the business strategy.
This is a hands-on role for someone who understands how to scope work, manage subcontractors, maintain commercial control, and work within a structured governance framework. The successful candidate will help move Primus toward a more disciplined, selective, and scalable delivery model, aligned to critical environments and higher-value opportunities.
Key Responsibilities
1. Opportunity Qualification and Pipeline Management
- Maintain an accurate pipeline of opportunities, ensuring each opportunity has a clear status, next action, and owner.
- Apply Primus's opportunity qualification scoring to all small works and project opportunities.
- Support decision-making on whether opportunities should be: pursued, declined or escalated for discussion
- Help ensure only strategically aligned and commercially viable opportunities are progressed.
- Provide regular, structured pipeline and quote updates for the weekly leadership dashboard.
2. Scoping, Pricing and Commercial Control
- Review opportunity information, surveys, and client requirements to support accurate scoping.
- Prepare or support pricing for small works and related project opportunities.
- Capture assumptions, exclusions, risks, and clarifications clearly before submission.
- Protect margin by applying agreed commercial processes and challenging inconsistencies.
- Support variation management and change control during delivery.
- Contribute to reducing margin leakage through disciplined commercial administration.
3. Delivery Coordination and Subcontractor Management
- Coordinate subcontractors and suppliers to support timely, high-quality delivery.
- Support mobilisation by ensuring documentation, approvals, and key information are in place.
- Monitor progress against scope, programme, and deliverables.
- Escalate issues, delays, or commercial risks promptly.
- Help maintain delivery discipline across live jobs and works in progress. xgikmsk
4. Governance, Reporting and Systems
- Use and help refine Primus's chosen tools for: pipeline management, financial tracking, project/task management, document control, e-signature and contract acceptance
- Maintain clear records of opportunity status, commercial position, and delivery progress.
- Contribute data for the weekly leadership dashboard, including pipeline, quotes issued, wins/losses, revenue i...
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