Contracts Manager - Specialist Care Home Construction
Project-based, varying locations across UK
£75,000 - £85,000 + Benefits
 
The Headlines
- Senior Contracts Manager role with a specialist contractor delivering care home construction projects across the UK.
- Lead commercial and contract delivery on a varied portfolio of high-profile care home builds for leading care operators.
- Opportunity to work with a highly experienced leadership team with strong sector knowledge and over 60 years'' combined experience.
- Competitive salary plus benefits and clear progression within a company focused on quality, service and long-term client partnerships.
 
Your Next Job - What You''ll Be Doing
This is a rare chance for an experienced Contracts Manager to join a specialist care home contractor that builds purpose-designed care facilities across the UK. You''ll be responsible for leading commercial oversight and contract management on live contracts, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and in accordance with quality, safety and regulatory expectations.
 
Key responsibilities include:
- Full contract and commercial management across multiple care home construction projects.
- Managing cost control, change management, risk registers and contractual obligations.
- Preparing valuations, claims, extensions of time and commercial reports for senior leadership.
- Leading joint risk workshops and coordinating with design, planning, procurement and delivery teams.
- Building strong commercial relationships with care home operators, consultants, subcontractors and supply chain partners.
- Driving best-practice procurement, value engineering and programme optimisation.
 
In this role you''ll work closely with directors and senior management who bring extensive sector-specific knowledge across design, planning and construction delivery.
 
Your Next Employer - Where You''ll Be Doing It
You''ll be joining a care home building specialist with a long track record of delivering purpose-built residential, nursing and dementia care homes throughout the UK. The business manages the full development process, from early commercial planning through to completed handover, and is known for its strong delivery standards, high safety performance and collaborative approach with clients and supply partners.
 
Projects include a wide range of schemes for leading care operators, with numerous beds completed and many more under construction across multiple counties.
 
The head office is based in Oxfordshire, anchored by a supportive, skilled senior leadership team focused on innovation, continual improvement and quality delivery.
 
Requirements & Rewards - What You Give & What You Get
You''ll need:
- Proven experience as a Contracts Manager or equivalent in main contracting with traditional build care home experience essential.
- Strong understanding of commercial management, contract administration, risk and procurement.
- Excellent negotiation, communication and leadership skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, stakeholders and financial performance across multiple sites.
- Openness to travelling across a patch to sites under their control - although there will be no set place of work and the company will try to keep you as local as possible; you will be required to travel where the work is, across central and southern England.
- Commercial awareness with analytical skills to support cost-effective decision making.
 
In return, you''ll receive:
- £75,000 - £85,000 per annum + benefits (DOE).
- Significant exposure to complex, specialist care home builds delivered nationwide.
- Clear long-term progression and senior development opportunities.
- Collaborative leadership and exposure to a business with deep sector expertise.
- A culture focused on professional development within a quality-driven construction business.
 
To Apply - Choose What Works for You
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About Me
I''m Alex Wallace, Director at Reinforced Recruitment, working with construction professionals across London and the South East. I specialise in placing commercial, contracts and senior delivery professionals into roles where they can thrive and progress. Let''s talk when you''re ready.