Construction/Energy Legal Commercial Contracts Specialist

Behaviours:

• Consistently professional, confident, and calm even in challenging situations.
• Demonstrate a customer focused approach; and an expectation of others to do likewise.
• Supportive and helpful team player with a flexible and positive attitude.
• Proactively share knowledge, skills, and experience with others to increase team performance.
• Deliver a high volume of quality work on time.
• Strive to get things right first time.
• Strive to meet objectives and improve performance.
• Highly organised with good attention to detail
• Prioritise work well.
• Work effectively and responsibly without close supervision.
• Reflect and evaluate own performance in order to identify areas for improvement; maintain a learning and development plan.

Communication & Interpersonal Skills:

• Articulate, professional and clear verbal communication skills.
• Present information clearly and in an engaging way.
• Good interpersonal and rapport-building abilities.
• Precise and appropriate written communication skills.
• Good telephone manner
• Good listener; can understand the needs of customers and colleagues.

Technical Skills & Knowledge

• Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Keep up to date with advances in business area, new methods and ways of working.
• Strong administrative and organisational skills.
• Intermediate knowledge of Excel, Word and Outlook
• Confident and accurate use of departmental computer systems/databases.

Vendor Management:

Only if relevant to job role;

• Be aware of and seek authorisations where needed.
• Follow Vendor Management processes and procedures when engaging new vendors.
• Be responsible for cost management, approval of invoices, enabling technical discussions, auditing and sourcing required/expired documentation, complaint management, and training.
• Collection and circulation of any defined performance metrics (KPI's) aligned to commercially agreed SLA's between parties.
• Performance management for underperforming vendors and communicating proposals to terminate and/or withdraw the procurement of goods and services for a given vendor.