Adepto Technical Recruitment Limited

Contracts Manager

Adepto Technical Recruitment Limited

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Bradford • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Review and manage existing subcontractor contracts supporting maintenance and reliability activities.
  • Ensure commercial terms are correctly applied and suppliers are delivering agreed scope and outcomes.
  • Challenge unnecessary costs such as failed works, repeat visits, standby charges, or unjustified call-outs.
  • Investigate supplier claims including rework, aborted visits, and variation requests.
  • Identify opportunities to improve contract structure, scope clarity, and performance management.
  • Implement governance around supplier performance, KPIs, and commercial compliance.
  • Work closely with engineering, operations, and procurement teams to ensure alignment between service delivery and commercial agreements.
  • Support negotiations with subcontractors to improve value, cost transparency, and service standards.
  • Provide reporting on spend, supplier performance, risks, and savings opportunities.
  • Ensure contractual risk is managed and disputes are handled professionally and commercially.

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a **Contract Manager**, Commercial Manager, or Supplier Manager within industrial, engineering, utilities, manufacturing, or maintenance environments.
  • Strong understanding of subcontractor management within maintenance, reliability, or asset-intensive operations.
  • Experience challenging supplier costs, variations, claims, and performance shortfalls.
  • Commercially astute with strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to interpret contract terms and apply them practically on live projects and maintenance programmes.
  • Confident working with engineering and operational teams.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to identify inefficiencies and value leakage.
  • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, operational environments.
  • Background in reliability engineering, asset management, or maintenance operations.
  • Knowledge of performance-based contracts and service-level agreements (SLAs).
  • Experience in auditing supplier performance and cost structures.
  • Familiarity with NEC, bespoke subcontract agreements, or service contracts.
  • Commercially driven and detail-oriented.
  • Confident challenging suppliers constructively.
  • Pragmatic, hands-on, and solutions focused.
  • Strong communicator at all levels.
  • Able to operate independently within a contract assignment.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
contract managementsubcontractor managementsupplier performance auditingnegotiationcost analysisperformance-based contractsservice-level agreementsrisk managementcommercial complianceengineering collaboration
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementanalytical mindsetcommunicationproblem-solvingdetail-orientedpragmaticindependent operationconstructive challengingvalue identificationhands-on approach