Are you a commercial or contracts professional, keen to work in a demanding yet diverse role which offers the opportunity to drive improvements in commercial and contract management performance for the body responsible for delivering Greater Manchester’s transport strategy and commitments?

This is a busy and exciting time for TfGM: Greater Manchester is the Northwest’s most forward looking and inspirational city region. It is a world-class business and investment location and transport plays a vital role in supporting future growth and prosperity. Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is at the heart of the Northern Powerhouse ambitions; our 2040 Transport strategy is all about helping to shape and create a successful, resilient city-region ready to tackle the challenges, and opportunities, of the future.

With this growth comes an increased reliance on third party suppliers to help TfGM to deliver its objectives, and consequently to ensure expenditure against these contracts deliver optimum value for the public purse. In this role you will lead on the operation and embedding of best practice contract management across the organisation as well as providing commercial assurance to business leads and the senior leadership team on the performance of a variety of current and future contracts.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, ambitious and hardworking individual with the necessary experience and professional background to fulfil this role and become an important member of the TfGM establishment. Educated to degree level, you will have strong experience in, and knowledge of, the contract management lifecycle with extensive negotiation skills and will be conversant with various forms of contract agreement for Revenue and Capital work streams and programmes.

You will be confident in working with senior internal colleagues and external stakeholders and have the ability to influence behaviours and drive performance improvements. You will also have experience of building constructive relationships with providers whilst holding them to account and delivering value for money is critical.

The salary range for this role is £49,880 to £56,144. Salary on appointment will be dependent upon your skills and experience.

In return, as well as a competitive salary, we also offer a range of fantastic benefits, such as:

•Free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work
•Free bus travel within Greater Manchester
•27 days holiday per annum
•Access to the local government pension scheme

At TfGM we encourage candidates to discuss flexible working options at any stage of the recruitment process.

We welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are actively building a diverse workforce and want to create an inclusive environment as we recognise the importance of our workforce reflecting the communities we serve.

If you believe you can contribute to our continued success in these challenging roles and have the skills and experience we are seeking we would really like to hear from you!

Please visit www.tfgm.com/careers for further information and to apply.