Element has an opportunity for a Contracts Manager to join our team. This is a great opportunity to develop your Procurement career within a Global TIC business.

We are looking for a positive, driven and proactive self-starter who is motivated by success and a natural passion to deliver best value for money. You will work well under pressure. Have the ability to prioritise, organise and coordinate and have strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Develop, communicate and implement innovative procurement category strategies to deliver year-on-year savings and efficiencies.
• Develop and align category and spend strategies in line with business objectives. 
• Support the identification, selection, and development of suppliers to deliver on current and future business needs.
• Apply industry best practices and ensure compliance with procurement governance.
• Drive supplier and contract management activities within IT, ensuring alignment with business needs, supplier performance, compliance, and value for money.
• Ensure all agreements meet organisational objectives for quality, cost, risk management, and professional standards.
• Apply robust contract management practices to ensure licenses, services and products are delivered in line with contractual obligation

•  Identify and analyse external spend for licenses and services within IT, and categorise appropriately to enable effective strategy development.

• Develop, communicate, and implement category strategies that deliver value, efficiency, and alignment with business needs.

• Establish and embed supplier management best practices to drive performance, compliance, and continuous improvement.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring effective collaboration on contract and supplier management matters.

• Promote the role and capabilities of the Procurement team to increase visibility, engagement across the business.

• Ensure all contracts are fully documented and maintained to support compliance and risk management.

• Benchmark and challenge existing approaches, driving innovation and continuous improvement in supplier management practices across the organisation and its acquisitions.

• Rationalise the supplier base by consolidating spend with key suppliers to leverage economies of scale and achieve cost efficiencies.

• Monitor and manage supplier performance against contractual obligations, ensuring timely interventions where remedial action is required.

• MCIPS qualification (or equivalent relevant procurement experience)
• Extensive procurement experience, including category strategy development, supplier management, and contract negotiation.
• Proven leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills, with experience operating in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to convey complex commercial issues across all levels of the organisation.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and sound judgment skills.
• Experience in drafting tender documents, contracts, and bespoke contractual terms.
•   Proven experience leading complex contract negotiations and managing contract changes to secure optimal outcomes.
• Strong contract management expertise, ensuring value for money, supplier performance, compliance, and effective risk control throughout the contract lifecycle.
• Experience working with ERP systems and procurement solutions with the ability to leverage technology to optimise sourcing, contract management, and supplier performance.
• Proven project management and implementation capability.
• Awareness of legal and contractual risks, with the ability to apply this knowledge in practice.

Element is one of the fastest growing testing, inspection and certification businesses in the world. Globally we have more than 9,000 brilliant minds operating from 270 sites across 30 countries. Together we share an ambitious purpose to ‘Make tomorrow safer than today’.

When failure in use is not an option, we help customers make certain that their products, materials, processes and services are safe, compliant and fit for purpose. From early R&D, through complex regulatory approvals and into production, our global laboratory network of scientists, engineers, and technologists support customers to achieve assurance over product quality, sustainable outcomes, and market access.

While we are proud of our global reach, working at Element feels like being part of a smaller company. We empower you to take charge of your career, and reward excellence and integrity with growth and development.

Industries across the world depend on our care, attention to detail and the absolute accuracy of our work. The role we have to play in creating a safer world is much bigger than our organization.

At Element, we always take pride in putting our people first. We are an equal opportunity employer that recognizes diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our Vision of becoming “the world’s most trusted testing partner”.

All suitably qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective work related criteria and without regard for the following: age, disability, ethnic origin, gender, marital status, race, religion, responsibility of dependents, sexual orientation, or gender identity or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws or other characteristics in accordance with the applicable governing laws.