Morson is delighted to be working in partnership with a market leading aerospace organisation to recruit a Subcontract Manager for an initial 6 month contract. There is a hybrid working arrangement on offer with a split between time onsite in Cambridge and the rest working from home. An attractive daily rate is on offer for the successful candidate.
Please find the role description below:
Purpose of the position
To work as a key member of a cross functional project team, alongside other key senior project roles accountable for managing and reporting all supplier and subcontractor delivery performance (cost, quality and delivery). A key aspect of this position will be to ensure that material cost is managed to the budget baseline and supplier/subcontractor compliance is managed to ensure delivery of contractual deliverables and identifying and mitigating all risks that may affect this.
Responsibilities:
1. Manage the relationship with all key suppliers across the project
2. Ensure clear alignment between my client and all Suppliers on all key contractual deliverables and documentation as Terms and Conditions, Statement of Work and Schedule of requirements.
3. Chair regular project reviews with all appropriate suppliers invited all necessary functional leaders as required
4. Manage any non-compliances of suppliers to the contract seeking specialist support from the Bid Procurement Team or Category Team as required
5. Tracking and regularly review supply and supplier risks against the programme
6. Negotiate and agree variations to the contract baseline, in conjunction with the key functional leaders
7. Provide monthly status reports to functional and business leaders
8. Ensuring all suppliers execute their responsibilities under the contract
9. Validate and approve supplier payments in accordance with the contract
Tasks:
1. Develop and sustain strong relationships with all key project, business and functional stakeholders and be able to brief at all levels status of cost, supply status and supply risk for all suppliers & subcontractors with the scope of the project(s)
2. Provide weekly 4-Box reports detailing Successes Opportunities Failures and Threats (SOFT) to key functional and project leaders
3. Chair key development review meetings with key suppliers to ensure alignment to contractual deliverables.
Capability
Behavioural Competencies:
1. Strong Communication Skills
2. Awareness of Project Management
3. Strong Negotiator
4. Excellent Commercial acumen
5. Ability to multi-task
Technical Competencies:
1. Experience in project and/or subcontractor management, as part of a development contract
2. Awareness of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software ideally IFS
Certification:
1. APM certified – an advantage
2. CIPS – not essential
Experience:
1. Successful track record of managing a variety of suppliers / contracts
2. Produced multi-year Category Strategies for relevant areas of spend
3. Cross functional working
4. International supplier management
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