Contract Management Pioneer / Strategic Contract Manager

Your added value as a Contract Management Pioneer / Strategic Contract Manager.

The House of Representatives wants to further professionalize contract management, centrally within the Department of Financial and Economic Affairs (FEZ), and develop it into a structural, uniform, and proactive way of working. As contract management pioneer, you play a key role in this. You translate a previously issued external advisory report into a concrete implementation approach and ensure its execution. In doing so, you create coherence between roles, responsibilities, working methods, information provision, and professional development of the discipline.

You are the connecting and driving force behind this change. You create support, monitor progress and quality, and ensure that the new way of working is properly embedded in the organization. You work closely with the services involved, contract owners, contract managers, procurement, and legal affairs. As the central point of contact, you prepare decision-making, identify risks and bottlenecks, and ensure a careful handover to the structural organization.

What makes this position special is that you not only shape the change, but also remain involved in its further development. After the pioneer phase of approximately one year, you will continue as a strategic contract manager. In this role, you provide professional direction to the central contract managers, coordinate deployment and priorities, and stimulate further professionalization. In addition, you are yourself responsible for the contract management of complex, high-risk, or strategically important contracts, and you advise management and contract owners on strategic contract and supplier issues.

There is only one House of Representatives. That also makes your work as a pioneer and strategic contract manager unique. You work at the heart of political and social current affairs and, with your expertise, contribute to professional business operations and a safe, well-functioning House of Representatives.

Main tasks

You:

• translates the external advisory report into a concrete implementation approach for contract management;

• realizes the establishment and implementation of central contract management, including clear roles, responsibilities, and working methods;

• develops and implements a uniform contract management methodology;

• creates support, monitors progress and quality, and ensures sustainable embedding within the organization;

• provides professional direction to the central contract managers and coordinates and prioritizes their activities;

• promotes knowledge sharing, quality assurance, and further professionalization of contract management;

• carries out strategic contract management for complex and important contracts and advises on strategic contract and supplier issues.

What we ask of you

• Higher professional/university education (HBO+/WO) level of working and thinking.

• Broad and up-to-date knowledge of contract and supplier management.

• Extensive experience in tactical and strategic contract management and complex supplier relationships.

• Demonstrable experience in implementing or professionalizing contract management, including frameworks, processes and instruments.

• Knowledge of procurement, tendering and relevant legal and financial aspects.

• Experience in the public sector, preferably within a political-administrative or other complex organization.

• Sincere curiosity and the ability to connect easily characterize you. You know how to involve the right people at the right time. Whether you are at the table with a department head, manager, or subject matter expert: you build good relationships and maintain a critical and independent view.

You will work in the temporary premises of the House of Representatives at Bezuidenhoutseweg 67, within walking distance of Den Haag Centraal station.

You will be working at Financial-Economic Affairs (FEZ). This department consists of approximately 30 colleagues, divided into the Procurement team, Operations team, Control team, and the Staff. The team is informal and shares a lot of knowledge. Everyone has their own area of focus and helps each other. Just like many departments within the House of Representatives, we work hybrid.

The position is centrally positioned within the Procurement team. The postholder is accountable to the designated supervisor, serves as the substantive point of contact for contract management, and provides contract managers with professional — not hierarchical — guidance. The postholder also coordinates priorities and capacity and supports contract owners with complex issues.

Read here more about our department.

Details

• As part of the application procedure, in the context of our integrity policy, we request a Certificate of Good Conduct (Verklaring Omtrent Gedrag).

• A reference check may be part of the selection procedure. Naturally, we will always first ask for your permission for this.

• As part of the application procedure, we may consult public, position-relevant data on the internet and social media platforms.

• The job interviews will take place in the week of 16 November 2026.

Apply immediately

For more information about the position and the team, you can contact Procurement Manager Iris van Rijn at 06-27 56 29 84 or by email at i.vrijn@tweedekamer.nl. If she is unavailable between 2 and 13 November, you can contact Head of Department FEZ Patrick Janssen at 06-29 22 97 50 or by email at p.janssen@tweedekamer.nl.

For questions about the application procedure, you can contact senior recruitment advisor, Caroline Braakman-Boom via telephone number 06 25 72 47 23 or by email c.boom@tweedekamer.nl.

Working at the House of Representatives means working for the democracy of the Netherlands. An honorable task in which you support 150 Members of Parliament daily. With over 800 colleagues, you contribute to the functioning of the House of Representatives. In a unique environment where no two days are ever the same. The House of Representatives belongs to everyone and is for everyone and strives for diversity in backgrounds and knowledge within its organization.