Senior Contract Manager

Senior Contract Manager (Glasgow or London) 

Salary from £51600 (uplift if London based) plus 15% Annual Bonus and Single person Healthcare  

Flexible & Hybrid Working Available 

Closing date: 05/04/2024  

Why ScottishPower  

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation. 

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in. 

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers scottishpower.com. 

Help us create a better future, quicker  

Belonging to the O&M Contracts Department, UK and reporting to the Lead Contract Manager, you will assist in defining contracting strategies and plans, tendering, negotiating and managing multi-million offshore Service contracts. The responsibilities include identifying, assessing and creating procedures, to support site functions; and managing contractual & commercial risks and seeking out opportunities to optimise and drive the performance of the service supplier contracts. This role will require working closely with teams from the Operations, Technical Engineering teams, Legal, Insurance, Financial and Group Purchasing teams. 

Working as part of a global business with activities in many countries across Europe and the rest of the world, with frequent travel to various locations within the UK. The role requires the individual to project manage multi-disciplinary teams in different project locations in UK and Europe. 

What you'll be doing  

As Senior Contract Manager, you ll have a variety of responsibilities including: 

• Supporting the Site and technical teams with the negotiation and management of contracts for the Offshore O&M Services. 

• Contract budget management including processing of applications for payment and invoicing. 

• Facilitating the contractual and commercial implementation of contracts including reporting and other contractual deliverables. This will include undertaking detailed contract reviews and advising on how to interpret and apply key contract provisions on the day-to-day operational clauses of the contract. 

• Assisting in developing mitigation strategies in line with the contract terms, this will include proactively providing recommendations and advice on how to avoid any additional cost and, where this is not possible, how to minimize the costs of legitimate claims. 

• Supporting in negotiations of claims and variations with contractors including the preparation of notes of advice and commercial drafting. 

• Advising on key commercial risks from an O&M perspective for supply contracts on emerging projects. 

• Ensuring SPR best practices and processes are implemented and applied in contract management ensuring involvement and interfacing with key company functions such as Purchasing, Insurance, Financial, Legal, e delivery of the project's interests in negotiating with the contractors; etc. 

What You ll Bring 

Your experience in commercial and contractual aspects of engineering (preferably within Offshore Wind industry) with warranty claims and negotiations will be supported by a degree in a relevant discipline as Engineering, Contract Management or any other commercially orientated qualification. A proactive, confident, decisive and self-driven individual with experience in budgeting and invoicing, able to communicate at all levels and to challenge vendors on key issues. Highly developed negotiation, risk management and stakeholder management skills will be required.  

With a strong ability to manage your own performance, you ll have significant focus on delivery and an ability to balance a varied and challenging workload, whilst producing high quality results in demanding timeframes. This position will give you the opportunity to travel to attend meetings and work at different project sites in a number of countries throughout northern Europe, particularly Britain, Germany, France and Spain. 

What's In It For You 

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.    

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that -  so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:  

• 36 days annual leave  

• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave  

• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme  

• Payroll giving and charity matched funding   

• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes  

• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change  

• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving  

• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans  

• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments  

• Life Assurance (4x salary)  

• Access to nudge' financial wellbeing support  

• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more