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Contract Director - Process

Employer
Russam
Location
West Yorkshire
Salary
Excellent Benefit Package including Bonus, Car Allowance, Pension etc
Closing date
26 Apr 2019

Job Details

The Organisation

Russam GMS is pleased to be working with a waste management and renewable energy services company.

Role and Responsibilities

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a full time Contract Director who will:

  • Deliver SHE compliance, lead safe working practices and behaviours
  • Manage the client relationship
  • Deliver financial targets, revise forecasts and 5 years plans
  • Deliver full-service contract compliance
  • Assist in the delivery of continuous improvement around Lifecycle, R&M and productivity
  • Assist in development of contract performance through contract variation
  • Ensure that full service delivery complies with contractual commitments including service delivery plans, contract targets, client data and information and change protocols
  • Develop a working relationship with the client which ensures that contract delivery is recognized, take ownership of the SHEQ culture and behaviour for the contract
  • Ensure the contract is fully compliant with all internal and externals
  • Own the budget setting process and subsequent delivery of agreed financial performance on interim and full-service contracts and drive initiatives to improve financial and operating performance
  • Realise operational excellence targets, installing a result focused performance driven culture
  • Realise productivity targets, ensuring cost effectiveness
  • Ensure staff resource levels are adequate to support delivery of business requirements, whilst remaining within cost budgets
  • Realise a constructive industrial relations climate including harmonious social relationships within the company
  • Drive a culture / mindset together with the management team that builds employee motivation and commitment and develop a contract team capable of over reaching the contract targets
  • Assist the maintenance department in identifying annual lifecycle requirements, preparation of capital applications and business case papers for non-lifecycle capital purchases

This is a permanent role based in Yorkshire.

The Desired Candidate

The key to being successful in the role of Contract Director is having experience in a process/manufacturing setting, ideally with a process/chemical engineering background, to ensure the team can be supported in investigating new ways to measure and improve production processes on site.

You must also have extensive customer and commercial experience to drive value for both the company and client.    

The Contract Director will:

  • Possess significant experience in a similar role. A process background is essential with relevant experience in customer and commercial management
  • Have a proven track record of delivering process improvement and standardisation in complex B2B2C regulated service industry
  • Have strong leadership and line management skills with a coaching style that gets the best out of people, balanced with an edge that is not over-tolerant of poor performance
  • Be of high intellect, degree educated with strong analytical ability
  • Have exceptional attention to detail and established negotiation skills
  • Be a high energy, inspirational leader that has high emotional intelligence and can quickly build rapport
  • Demand high standards of themselves and others and can translate this into high quality, high pace output, and build positive teams
  • Comfortable with presenting to shareholders, has impact, authority and gravitas
  • Commercially astute
  • Have had profit responsibility for business unit(s), including experience of setting annual profit budgets
  • Have in depth understanding of health, safety and environmental compliance
  • Possess good organisation skills and the ability to forward plan and have a proactive management approach

How to Apply

Please upload a current CV. No other documents are required at this stage.

Company

Our Story.

We believe in enabling organisations and individuals to thrive. As the original pioneers of UK interim management and a leading executive search business, we use our experience, depth of knowledge and business networks to drive our clients to success.

What makes us different is our speed in immersing ourselves into a business. We blend science and experience in order to match the perfect professional.

What we do.

There are four core strands to the Russam business today: Interim Search, Executive Search, Board Practices and Total Project Delivery. Our sector experts have extensive insight into the industries they serve, from finance and manufacturing to technology, the public sector and not-for-profits.

With access to a global network, we serve a client base ranging from ambitious start-ups to multinationals in any market. We have a proven track record in providing the right professionals to deliver transformation, crisis management, business turnaround and rapid growth.

Our lasting success is thanks to our people. We’re passionate about performance, excellence, diversity and ethics. We’re trusted by hundreds of organisations; thousands of professionals.

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