Contract Manager
You will be the tactical director of contracts for a reception facility. You ensure coherence, direction, and risk management, always maintaining an overview. In your role, you make a significant contribution to sustainably embedding contract management for M&O. The activities are an integral part of regular business operations and are performed within the existing organizational structure. You will be part of the team, participate in internal meetings, and work under the daily guidance of the responsible manager.
Priorities, activities, and desired results are determined by the organization. Due to the importance of continuity, knowledge retention, and close collaboration with internal stakeholders, this is a structural role within the team that requires full integration into the organization.
What you do
- Inventory and analyze all contracts and agreements
- Record and structure contract information in ISPnext
- Coordinate strategic choices, priorities, and improvements with the contract owner
- Initiate and guide improvement and modification processes, including in crisis situations or with changing regulations
- Maintain relationships with suppliers and internal stakeholders
- Translate contract objectives into concrete agreements and frameworks on the work floor
- Proactively identify and manage risks (financial, legal, political, and operational)
- Take the lead or provide input for new tenders and/or contract renewals
- Draft work agreements and a handover document
What they ask
- Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of HBO bachelor level
- Demonstrable work experience with contract management in a political-administrative environment
Preferences.
- Demonstrable completed CATS CM Practitioner education
- Demonstrable work experience at a government organization
- Demonstrable work experience with ISPnext or comparable systems
Profile
- Political-administrative sensitivity
- Strong analytical skills
- A keen eye for risks and opportunities
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Decisive
- Stress-resistant
- Good at setting priorities
- Collaboration-oriented
- Able to connect internal and external interests
- Adaptability
- Results-oriented
- Decisiveness
- Organizing
- Analytical ability
- Planning and organizing
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