Position Purpose:
The Contract Transformation Director (CTD) is responsible for developing and implementing strategic initiatives in order to deliver a more standardized and sustainable approach to contract compliance across the Municipal Water Business. The position requires demonstrated, exceptional thought leadership and team leadership abilities in order to effectively oversee and implement contract compliance review, contract evolution, mobilization, remobilization, and demobilization efforts. This role is also responsible for the governance, methodology, practices, and operations of mobilization project management office (PMO) activities. The PMO will routinely oversee multiple mobilization, remobilization, and demobilization projects at the same time and ensure deliverables are met in terms of contractual compliance and quality of product.
Primary Duties/Responsibilities:
Contract Transformation
- Set up methodology and tools to track implementation of contract transformation initiatives.
- Develop and define the contract transformation initiatives - specifically what leadership do they need, what team and level of time/ dedication is needed, what objectives, approaches to interdependencies and risks are necessary, and what approaches to implementation are required.
- Develop staffing organization charts for both mobilization efforts but also ongoing operations, integrate staffing agencies services into team creation, optimize labor and surge labor.
- Understand union employment rules and collective bargaining terms and conditions.
- Collaboratively develop and implement the digital tools for identifying and tracking contract deliverable management.
- Lead reviews of the prioritized contracts in order to identify key contract deliverables, establish a baseline of compliance, and integrate the digital tracking tools for long term transparency.
- Leverage organizational change management disciplines & methodologies to develop and deliver best management practices for contract transformation.
- Lead and motivate the Contract Transformation team while cultivating individual talents and representing the team on an executive committee.
- Employ ingenuity and initiative required to coordinate problem resolution, resolve conflicting priorities and to meet assignment deadlines within a team environment.
- Manage projects to an on-schedule completion and within budget.
- Utilize effective communication, presentation and interpersonal skills in order to interface with and motivate all levels of personnel.
- Required to prepare accurate, effective, complete and easily understood written communications, instructional presentations, and reports.
- Work with Executive level stakeholders to drive results that meet or exceed VNA strategic objectives and timelines.
- Integrate best contract compliance practices into modified business development offerings.
Project Management Office
- Establish the Mobilization & Transformation Office.
- Responsible for the overall structure, overall objectives, progress against plans, interdependencies, risks and mitigation, of mobilizations, with outputs from the contract transformation initiative.
- Define and maintain mobilization, remobilization, and demobilization process standards by providing a framework to establish standard performance measures based on organizational goals and objectives.
- Define and maintain staffing plan for project start-ups, re-compete implementations, and project close-outs.
Work Environment: