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About the Role

The Contract Administrator provides essential support to project teams, focusing on contract administration and change management across multiple projects and contracts. This role ensures contract notifications, communications, and change management activities are managed accurately and consistently, supporting successful project delivery through effective contract governance.

Responsibilities

• Providing contract administration support across multiple live projects and contracts.
• Administering and maintaining contract change management processes, ensuring changes are accurately recorded, tracked, and communicated.
• Preparing, issuing, and monitoring contractual notifications and communications in accordance with contract requirements and project procedures.
• Working closely with Project Managers and wider project teams to support the consistent application of contract management best practice.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders, clients, subcontractors, and suppliers to support effective contract administration and communication.
• Maintaining accurate contract records using electronic contract management systems, including CEMAR, and company-developed tools and templates.
• Supporting contract compliance activities to help ensure contractual obligations, deadlines, and governance requirements are met.
• Assisting with the identification, recording, and communication of project risks and opportunities arising from contractual matters.
• Monitoring contract administration activities to ensure documentation is clear, accurate, and auditable.
• Contributing to the continuous improvement of contract management and administration processes.

Requirements

• Experience in contract administration, contract change management, cost management, or a similar commercial support role.
• Knowledge of contract administration processes and contractual communications.
• Strong organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines effectively.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships across a range of teams and levels.
• Ability to work independently, manage workloads proactively, and deliver high-quality outcomes within agreed timescales.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining accurate records and documentation.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel.
• Understanding of NEC and/or IChemE contracts.
• Experience using electronic contract management software, such as CEMAR.
• Experience within engineering, construction, infrastructure, utilities, or major project environments.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of project risk and opportunity management.

Skills

• Contract administration
• Contract change management
• Cost management
• Commercial support
• Contractual communications
• Organisational skills
• Prioritisation skills
• Stakeholder engagement
• Microsoft Office
• Excel
• NEC contracts
• IChemE contracts
• CEMAR
• Risk management
• Opportunity management

Location

• Hampton, Middlesex

Work Type

• Full-time
• Reduced hours
• Flexibly

Benefits

• Generous holiday entitlement, increasing with years of service, plus the opportunity to purchase further holidays
• A wide range of corporate discounts
• Cycle to Work schemes
• Comprehensive pension plan
• Regular Save as You Earn share purchase scheme
• Private medical scheme options are available for all salaried employees
• Employee assistance programme provides free 24/7 support
• Paid for yearly membership to one recognised professional association relevant to your role

About the Company

• Our purpose is to improve people’s lives through building the facilities and infrastructure that communities need, providing opportunities for our people to learn, grow and progress, working with our supply chain to promote the very best working practice and caring for the environment in which we work.
• We do this by holding true to our values, delivering excellence for our clients and the community, being passionate about our role in providing vital services, putting integrity at the heart of our business by doing the right thing, and collaborating with our clients, supply chain and stakeholders to deliver lasting change and long-term value.

Equal Opportunity

• Galliford Try welcomes applications from candidates who would like to work full-time, reduced hours or flexibly and this will be discussed in more detail as part of the recruitment process.
• We encourage, and would be grateful if, you could confirm any requirements we can reasonably fulfil to make this application a positive experience for you.
• Don’t meet every requirement of the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Galliford Try, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement of the role, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
• As a Disability Confident employer, we have committed to offer an interview to any candidate with a long-term health condition or disability that meet the essential criteria for the advertised position. Please contact the Resourcing Partner listed within the job advert if you believe this applies to you. We will also take the opportunity to discuss any adjustments required for your interview.