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Contracts Manager

2 months ago

Melbourne, Australia Melbourne Water Full time

**Job Number**:

- 978703

**Work type**:

- Permanent Full Time

**Location**:

- Melbourne - Docklands

**Categories**:

- Administration & Support

**Our Organisation**:
At Melbourne Water we love water and love life. What we do makes a vital contribution to Melbourne’s famous lifestyle. We achieve this by supplying high quality drinking water, providing outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems, building resilience to flooding and by enhancing our waterway and land for greater community use. At Melbourne Water, we are in the ‘Decade that Matters’ and we’ve got some ambitious goals to achieve. It’s a pride we share in helping to make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live.

**The Role**:
Reporting to the Contracts Lead, Business Performance and Contracts, the Contracts Manager is responsible for managing contracts for Service Delivery by implementing consistent and standardised contract management practices to ensure that we are driving compliance and performance across Service Delivery contracts adhering to MW’s procurement policy and procedures.

This will be achieved through:

- Ensuring effective commercial, performance and relationship management of contracts while working closely with our Procurement team and other key Melbourne Water stakeholders to ensure Melbourne Water fulfils its contractual and statutory obligations.
- Ensuring activities and obligations required under each of the respective Contracts are being undertaken to the required performance standards, quality and cost.
- Ensuring best practice contract management techniques and processes are implemented, whilst driving opportunities for innovation, standardisation and continuous improvement.
- Development of a productive and professional relationship between the Service Provider(s) and/or suppliers and Melbourne Water with continuous improvement at its heart.
- Providing a high level of expertise and support to internal customers within the business to engage contracted service providers with good governance.

**Your Skills and Experience**:

- Previous experience and expertise within a contracts and governance role
- Technical leadership and guidance in relation to commercial management
- Strong financial and commercial acumen skills to control, budget and forecast expenditure
- Knowledge of procurement standards, legislation and regulatory authorities
- Expertise in complex contract negotiations and resolving of contractual issues
- Experience with contract management in operational environments is preferred

Your demonstrated stakeholder engagement skills particularly your ability to manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders will be keys to this role.

This role is based in Docklands but you may be requested to travel to our Brooklyn Pumping Station if needed.

For more information, please see the attached Role Mandate.

**Culture at Melbourne Water**:
We take enormous pride in cultivating a culture that holistically benefits our team and the wider Melbourne community. The pillars of our culture are based on Flexibility, Impact, Growth & Development, and People.
- We are committed to flexible working in a variety of manners including hybrid work, varied start/finish times, purchased leave, part time work, and 9-day fortnights. We understand that Melbourne Water and our customers are benefitted by enabling balance in work and life.
- Make an impact as part of a passionate team doing meaningful work to enhance life and livability in Melbourne.
- We relish learning and challenging the status quo for continuous growth. Perpetual and varied opportunities for learning and development are offered in a variety of manners - from formal development programs, digital learning content and lunch & learns; to visiting our sites and getting to see our initiatives and projects first hand.

How to apply

Closing date: 10 April 2024 at 11:55pm AEST

**Advertised**:
27 Mar 2024 AUS Eastern Daylight Time

**Closing**:
10 Apr 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time

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