Contract Manager

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Contracts Manager III Location :
Waltham, MA Duration : 12 months Pay range: $45-$55/hr on W2

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About the Role

Client is seeking a Procurement Delivery Lead – Electric Capital Construction to support NE Electric capital delivery construction procurement activity. This is a contractor role operating at a manager level as a senior individual contributor. The role will be the right hand to the director and will provide hands-on procurement, sourcing, commercial, bid execution, and process improvement support for complex electric construction work.

• Lead or support sourcing events for NE Electric capital construction work, including transmission, distribution, substation, civil, underground, overhead line, and related electric infrastructure construction services.
• Develop and maintain sourcing event plans, bid calendars, procurement trackers, milestone schedules, responsibility matrices, action logs, issue logs, and decision logs.
• Support development of RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, bid forms, pricing schedules, evaluation criteria, supplier instructions, clarification logs, negotiation materials, and award recommendation packages.
• Ensure sourcing events are released to market with clear scopes of work, commercial requirements, pricing structures, safety expectations, schedule assumptions, evaluation methodology, and governance requirements.
• Coordinate supplier questions, stakeholder responses, bid clarifications, addenda, site visit requirements, pricing updates, evaluation meetings, and negotiation preparation.

• Advise on appropriate sourcing strategies and commercial models for construction work, including lump sum, unit price, time and materials, EPC, EPCM, framework agreements, master service agreements, contractor panels, and project-specific awards.
• Support the development of negotiation strategies that address cost, schedule, productivity, change management, risk allocation, payment terms, warranties, insurance, bonding, escalation, claims avoidance, and performance expectations.
• Apply total cost of ownership thinking to construction sourcing decisions, including mobilization, demobilization, outage constraints, productivity assumptions, change order exposure, contractor availability, supplier switching costs, and long-term delivery risk.
• Partner with Legal, Risk, Safety, Finance, Engineering, Construction, and Project Management to resolve commercial exceptions and align contractual positions with project delivery needs.

• Serve as a thought partner to Procurement leadership by identifying opportunities to improve how construction sourcing work is planned, prioritized, governed, executed, measured, and communicated.
• Bring external perspective, construction procurement expertise, and practical market insight to challenge legacy ways of working and support more effective delivery of the growing NE Electric capital portfolio.
• Develop and recommend strategic improvements to sourcing strategy, supplier engagement, contracting approach, governance routines, bid evaluation discipline, workload visibility, and stakeholder alignment.
• Translate strategic improvement ideas into practical, executable plans with clear deliverables, timelines, owners, and success measures.

• Assess current procurement and sourcing processes supporting NE Electric capital delivery and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, transparency, consistency, stakeholder experience, and cycle time.
• Design and implement practical process improvements that enable Procurement to support a significantly growing construction and capital delivery workplan.
• Establish standardized sourcing tools, templates, playbooks, bid packages, evaluation models, negotiation frameworks, project trackers, risk registers, reporting routines, and governance materials.
• Develop repeatable sourcing and bid management methodologies that can be leveraged across multiple construction projects, categories, and procurement teams.
• Introduce scalable management tools, dashboards, reporting routines, and performance metrics that provide improved visibility into sourcing pipelines, bid status, risks, workload, and resource demands.

• Operate as a senior individual contributor providing…