DV Cleared Commercial – Support 34131

DNS - Commercial – Support 34131

Overview: The Commercial Support will support the lead commercial and manage post-contract management across contracts, ensuring compliance with contractual delivery obligations, risk mitigation, and value delivery aligned with strategic objectives. This role acts as a bridge between legal, sales, delivery, procurement, and finance teams to ensure business objectives are met with minimal legal and contractual exposure.
Role code: PMPM12
Senior Contracts Manager
Dotted line into: DNS Senior Commercial Manager
Governance Responsibilities:
All governance that is within the jurisdiction of the Delivery Exec may be undertaken by Contract Manager.
Contract Managers do not have any authority to provide L&C approval.
Role Responsibilities
•Lead contract management and negotiation and statements of work in preparation for governance approval.
•Collaborate with internal teams to achieve strategic goals
•Engage with L&C for support to manage delays to delivery
•Maintain contract documentation and ensure compliance with governance policies
•Create and manage templates for SOWs, change orders, and other agreements
•Support BAU contract management activities
•Deliver contractually required reporting and participate in customer meetings
•Stay current on IT law, data protection (e.g., GDPR) , and commercial legislation
•Support and develop members of the Contract Management team
•Act in accordance with Legal and Commercial guidance
•Ensure any contractual document (contract change or extension, relief or delay notice, or contract proposal) is reviewed and approved by the Legal & Commercial team in accordance with DOFA requirements.
•Engage support from and liaise closely with the Legal & Commercial team at the early stage of new contract or contract extension negotiations in order to agree negotiation strategy and key legal issues.
•Engage support Legal & Commercial during contract delivery regarding any contractual dispute or delay.
Role Actions
•Produce: Contract templates, reports, risk assessments
•Maintain: up-to-date conformed contract, and historical contract records
•Arrange: Negotiation sessions, governance reviews
•Ensure: Compliance with Fujitsu policies and procedures
•Validate: Contractual terms and obligations
•Attend: Customer meetings, internal governance forums
•Understand: Strategic objectives and risk tolerance
•Provide: customer-focussed input into bids and proposals
•Continuously Improve: Contract management processes and templates
Key Individual Objectives:
1.Deliver timely and risk-mitigated contract support across active engagements
2.Strengthen cross-functional collaboration to improve commercial outcomes
3.Enhance contract governance and reporting accuracy
4.Maintain up-to-date knowledge of legal and regulatory changes impacting IT services
Target Start Date: ASAP
Target End Date: six months intial TBC
Recruitment Type: Contractor
Rate: £650 max
Location of role (on site requirements): Basingstoke (BSN01)
Clearance Required: Purple
Working Pattern: Mon-Fri
Hiring manager and timesheet approver: Karen Cleary