Contract Manager Real Estate & Facilities in Arnhem

At TenneT, we work every day on a reliable, affordable, and sustainable energy system.

As a Contract Manager within Real Estate & Facility Management, your primary focus lies on the Maintenance portfolio. You are responsible for technically complex contracts and lead strategic procurement and implementation processes. Where necessary, you also apply your expertise to Projects and Facility Services.

In this way, you contribute directly to a safe, reliable, and future-proof working environment that is essential for the functioning of TenneT.

As a Contract Manager, you share responsibility for strengthening and renewing the electricity grid, so that the Netherlands can continue to rely on reliable and sustainable energy.

You will be working within the Contract Management team of Real Estate & Facility Management. The core of your role lies with the Maintenance portfolio, where you are responsible for a wide portfolio of technically complex maintenance contracts. Depending on the priorities within RE&FM, you may also be deployed for contract management issues within Projects and Facility Services. In doing so, you work closely with internal clients, Procurement, Finance, and other specialists within TenneT.

We are constantly developing and wish to further professionalize ourselves. As a Contract Manager, you are responsible for contractual and financial steering, whereby you understand the (technical) content sufficiently to effectively translate performance, deviations, and risks into contractual agreements and actions together with subject matter specialists. To achieve this, you possess a strategic level of work and thought, combined with years of experience in maintenance. You have demonstrable expertise in contract management and are able to look 3 to 5 years ahead at the developmental challenges facing us.

Furthermore, you are also responsible for, among other things:

• You exercise strategic control over contract management and ensure that contracts contribute optimally to the continuity, safety, and reliability of business-critical locations.
• You are responsible for the contractual, financial, and commercial control of contracts, including performance, changes, additional work, claims, risks, and escalations.
• You monitor the coherence between contractual agreements, supplier performance, risks, and the strategic objectives of Real Estate & Facility Management.
• You act as a partner for suppliers and internal stakeholders and conduct contract and supplier meetings at a tactical and strategic level.
• You are end-to-end responsible for complex technical procurements and connect substantive, operational, legal, financial, and procurement aspects into one integrated process.
• You contribute to the further professionalization of contract management within RE&FM and ensure a controlled implementation of new contracts, including governance, KPI steering, risk management, and stakeholder management.

At TenneT, we seek professionals who contribute to the future of our electricity grid. We expect you to have the right experience and skills to make a valuable contribution to our team and our mission.

• Acting strategically and result-oriented: Combines vision with decisiveness and translates strategic and tactical insights into concrete, actionable steps in practice.
• Strong analytical and communication skills: Analyzes issues sharply, oversees the coherence between disciplines, and knows how to convey insights and advice clearly and persuasively at various levels.
• Collaboration-oriented and proactive: Takes initiative, identifies risks and opportunities, and works effectively with stakeholders, with team development and collective results at the center.
• Good command of the Dutch and English languages.
• Demonstrable experience with technically complex maintenance or asset-related contracts, for example in building-related installations, technical infrastructure, security, critical environments, or similar capital-intensive environments, and demonstrable experience with complex procurement processes, preferably in a technical or infrastructure-oriented environment.
• A completed relevant HBO/WO (higher professional/university) degree
• Additional training or certification in the field of contract management, procurement, procurement law, CATS CM, NEVI, or claim/risk management is a plus.

A security screening is part of the selection procedure (AIVD B). You are willing to work at least 50% in the office.

TenneT offers you the chance to contribute to a sustainable energy future. Together with colleagues, partners, and stakeholders, you will work on innovative solutions that make the energy transition possible. With us, you will get the space to develop your talent and work in an environment where your growth is central. We encourage initiative and give you the space to come up with new ideas.

Therefore, for full-time employment, we offer you:

• A permanent contract with a two-month probationary period, based on 28 to 40 hours per week.
• A salary in scale 8: €4276,- to €8443,- gross per month, in addition to 8% holiday allowance and also a 6% year-end bonus.
• A solid pension via ABP: we pay 70% of your premium.
• 43 vacation days per year.
• Hybrid working where possible, including travel, internet, and a home office allowance.
• Support for your vitality, with a contribution towards a sports membership and health insurance, and our Always Energy program.
• Development opportunities via the TenneT Academy, so that you can continue to expand your knowledge and skills.

Do you have questions about the application process? Please contact Rutger.Prins@TenneT.eu

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