Senior Contracts Manager
Location: Glasgow
Salary from £57,600, up to 15% bonus and health cover
Flexible Working Pattern
Help us create a better future, quicker
In this role, you will lead the end to end commercial contract cycle for multi million pound, business critical agreements, from strategy and procurement through to implementation, management and renewal. You will play a key role in shaping and delivering contract strategies for the SPR UK Onshore Operational Portfolio, maximising value and mitigating commercial risk. With specialist expertise in contract management, you will identify, develop and deliver competitive tendering strategies that support the commercial and performance objectives of our UK onshore windfarm maintenance and Service & Maintenance programmes. Alongside this, you will provide strong leadership, development and line management to contract managers within the team, ensuring high performance and consistent delivery across the function.
What you'll be doing
Working closely with Procurement and O&M teams, you will prepare detailed contract scopes for invitations to tender, ensuring SPR's technical and commercial requirements are fully captured. You will collaborate with Legal and O&M management to determine the most appropriate contract forms and lead the evaluation of technical and commercial submissions, presenting clear recommendations to senior stakeholders. Your expertise will be instrumental in negotiating commercial terms that balance operational objectives, risk mitigation, and value delivery, including supporting Senior Managers on high value or high criticality contracts.
In this role, you will lead audits and assessments of key suppliers and contractors, informing the ongoing development of contract strategies and ensuring commercial risks are effectively managed. You will oversee commercial meetings with contractors, monitor claims, and maintain strong supplier relationships through detailed contract review and proactive engagement. Acting as a key point of contact for O&M and Commercial teams, you will provide clarity on contract timeframes, costs, payments, scope and budget implications, while also ensuring strong coordination with Procurement and Control departments to support successful business delivery.
You will play a central role in ensuring compliance and consistency across SPR's contract management processes, supporting the development and implementation of best practice within the ISO:9001 accredited Integrated Management System. This includes ensuring system requirements are embedded in all designated contracts, acting as SAP requisitioner, and supporting internal commercial awareness training across O&M teams. You will also be responsible for ensuring adherence to key commercial terms, including service and maintenance price adjustments, indexation, penalties and incentives, driving accurate delivery of contractual requirements throughout the contract lifecycle.
What you'll bring
* Degree level qualification.
* Strong experience leading and managing high value, complex engineering and maintenance contracts.
* In depth knowledge of onshore wind projects, industry culture, and contractor environments (highly desirable).
* Proven ability to create, analyse and act upon detailed contract performance reports, driving continual performance improvement.
* Ability to use contract and contractor performance data to influence and develop future contract strategies.
* Solid understanding of financial, commercial, and business principles, including risk mitigation practices.
* Skilled negotiator with the ability to identify and justify optimal commercial terms.
* Strategic thinker who can balance immediate business needs with long term objectives.
* Strong understanding of commercial processes related to the operation and maintenance of Generation assets (renewables preferred).
* Knowledge of Health & Safety legislation and contractor obligations within complex engineering environments.
* Extensive experience with service contracts, heavy engineering, and large/complex framework agreements.
* Thorough understanding of contract implementation and management across short and long term commercial agreements.
* Excellent self management, with the ability to balance cost, quality, and time pressures effectively.
* Comprehensive working knowledge of the commercial elements of SAP.
What's in it for you
* 36 days annual leave
* Holiday Purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
* Share Schemes
* Payroll Giving and Charity Matched Funding
* Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases
* Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
* Cycle to Work scheme and Public Transport Season Ticket Loans
* Healthcare benefit options including: Dental Insurance, Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan and annual Health Assessments
* Life Assurance (4x salary)
* Access to Savesmart financial wellbeing support
* Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
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.
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