Join us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a National Contract Manager - Stormforce to join us at Wavin. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

• Developing and maintain relationships with contractors, vendors, suppliers, and customers
• Studying the requirements, duties, and obligations of the company under contracts to ensure alignment with the company’s goals and industry regulations
• Supervising contract execution to ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines
• Researching business partners and their history prior to writing or signing contracts
• Monitoring the implementation and performance of signed contracts
• Review and maintain the Accreditations achieved to date, ensuring that all requirements throughout the year are met to ensure StormForce abides by the requirements needed to maintain these
• Provide guidance on contract matters to operational staff, including training to the team and other employees in contracting practices and procedures
• Maintaining, updating, and improving contractual records
• Ensure excellent management of HSE activities, with the focus on ‘zero accidents’: safeguarding, as a minimum, common law and statutory requirements. Compliance by sub-contractors
• Managing day to day performance to meet KPIs
• To ensure that all relationships with key customers / installers are maintained and enhanced in line with business strategy
• Develop the skills required to work with Technical to become the lead role for all StormForce enquiries/projects, to include ensuring all quotes, calculations and drawings meet the customer’s needs
• To manage all Wavin StormForce contracts to ensure project is delivered to the customer’s expectations
• Manage relationships/agreements with external partners/suppliers to meet the business requirements
• To produce all contract documents for specific projects
• Working with Technical, manage all StormForce pricing tools and update accordingly to coincide with cost/pricing demands
• To act as final signatory for all contract pricing
• Close engagement with the wider Commercial teams to manage and progress the Project Pipeline
• Assist the Global MSI&S Product Manager and the UK & Ireland MSI&S Commercial Manager for UCR on a Commercial prospective where routes to market through the StormForce WOW may or, can be utilised
• In addition to these defined areas of responsibility this role will support the wider business area as appropriate in accordance with your own skill set

The profile

• Good understanding of Health & Safety regulations
• Ability to read and understand construction drawings and specifications
• Able to produce and understand a working set of RAMS
• A sound commercial awareness of the Building Products and Construction Industries
• Technical Competence
• Knowledge of Contract Management (Essential)
• Financial and Budgetary Understanding
• Good standard of written and verbal communication
• Construction/Site Knowledge
• 5yrs + Contract Management Experience
• Good levels of PC literacy in the main Microsoft packages
• Effective planning and problem-solving skills
• Be self-motivated and self-starting
• Flexible and adaptable
• Sound business acumen and commercial awareness
• Ability to negotiate at a senior level
• Results Driven
• Exercise confidentiality and discretion, where required

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.