Job offer: Contracts Manager

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Review costs, activity reports, and other performance data to measure productivity, goal achievement, or to identify areas needing cost reduction or program improvement.
• Direct and coordinate activities of project concerned with the performance criteria, inventories, and human resource management.
• Direct administrative activities directly related to making products or providing services.
• Oversee staff preparation of work schedules and assignments.
• Direct or coordinate financial or budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, or increase efficiency.
• Plan or direct activities, such as training, that require coordination with other department managers.
• Perform personnel functions, such as selection, training, or evaluation.
• Assist in the development and implementation of Operations: policies, goals, objectives, or procedures in conjunction with PMSL senior management, organization officials, or staff members.
• Monitor suppliers to ensure that they efficiently and effectively provide needed goods or services within budgetary limits.
• Manage the movement of goods into and out of facilities to ensure efficiency, effectiveness, or sustainability of operations.
• Perform Quality Assurance floor work, such as inspections, communication with personnel to resolve problems, assisting customers and taking inventory.
• Liaise and communicate with senior representatives to address performance improvement initiatives
• Implement or oversee environmental management or sustainability programs addressing issues such as recycling, conservation, or waste management.
• Provide up to date reports to the General Manager on a regular basis. Frequency to be agreed and adhered to.
• Act in accordance with company employee policy and within the laws of Trinidad and Tobago.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

Administration and Management — Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modelling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

• Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Production and Processing — Knowledge of production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective operational effectiveness.
• Personnel and Human Resources — Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labour relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
• Administrative — Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, taking meeting notes and providing written meeting summaries, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
• Economics and Accounting — Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

Key Experience and Skills

Complex Problem-Solving Skills - Developed capacities used to solve novel, ill-defined problems in complex, real-world settings.

Resource Management Skills

• Management of Financial Resources - Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures.
• Management of Material Resources -Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.
• Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Social Skills - Developed capacities used to work with people to achieve goals.

• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Instructing- Teaching others how to do something.
• Negotiation - Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.
• Persuasion - Persuading others to change their minds or behaviour.
• Service Orientation - Actively looking for ways to help people.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

System Skills - Developed capacities used to understand, monitor, and improve socio-technical systems.

• Judgement and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Systems analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• System Evaluation - Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.

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