Regional Contracts Manager - Habitats (Keystone Environmental)

The Role

The Regional Contracts Manager is a strategic new appointment, responsible for developing and leading a Midlands delivery team, supported by the wider business. The role provides considerable growth as the regional hub emerges.

Primary Responsibilities

• Seek and recruit new team members with support of Origin’s HR team.
• Line management and professional development of junior staff.
• Contribute to wider business strategy.
• Procurement of works including quoting and tendering of large scale projects.
• Financial control including budget management and delivery of revenue targets.
• Client liaison, project management and administration.
• Help secure repeat and referral work through nurturing of new and existing clients.
• Maximise opportunities to win new work from prospective clients, including scheduling introductory meetings.

Core Requirements

• Relevant industry experience in ecological contracting or practical land management, including habitat creation and restoration, conservation, forestry and arboriculture.
• Exceptional communication skills, evidenced via a track record of client, subcontractor and supplier communication and management.
• Experience in organising and managing a team of operatives and associated vehicles and plant on projects.
• Ability to identify risks and opportunities, avoiding/minimising the former and capitalising on the latter.
• Proven aptitude for understanding clients’ requirements and delivering on time and within budget, without compromising industry standards.
• Demonstrable commercial acumen, both in profitable project delivery and in seeking future opportunities.
• Ability to balance and manage priorities, maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues while working under pressure.
• Solutions led and an inherent ability to problem solve under pressure and in a range of environments.
• Experience in quoting, tendering and project delivery.
• Experience in line managing and mentoring junior team members to achieve their full potential.
• Experience in writing site-specific risk assessments and method statements for jobs covering a range of sectors.
• Related qualifications or professional accreditations preferred but not essential – SSSTS/SMSTS.
• CSCS or similar industry equivalent.
• Driving licence (clean) essential, towing experience advantageous.

Our Location

This role offers the flexibility to initially work from home while supporting the delivery of existing projects. The successful candidate will help establish a local team and resources, with a clear ambition to create a dedicated Midlands delivery hub for the Keystone Habitats team. Candidates should ideally be situated within the Birmingham, Coventry, Tamworth area within commuting distance of existing site commitments ranging from Southam to Lichfield.

What’s in it for you?

• Supportive, experienced and friendly team.
• 25 days annual leave per annum (plus bank holidays).
• Socials and volunteering days.
• Enhanced company pension.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Life Assurance.
• Company laptop and mobile phone.