Senior Contract Manager

Senior Contract Manager
Salary from £63,000 - £79,000 per annum plus annual bonus (up to 15%) and single cover private medical insurance.
Wider Benefits include: Our double match pension – where we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%, 36 days paid holidays, Share Schemes, Holiday purchase and much more (more details below)
Location: St Vincent Crescent – Glasgow. Office based role
Permanent | Full Time – 37 hours per week with flexibility on start/finish time.
Closing date: 30th November 2026

Help us create a better future, quicker !

At SP Energy Networks, we're investing heavily in the future of our electricity network to support decarbonisation, enable economic growth, and connect the communities and technologies that will power a cleaner future. As a Senior Contract Manager within our Distribution business, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring our strategic framework partners deliver safely, efficiently, and commercially across a portfolio of live contracts worth over £100 million annually.

Working across our SPD licence area, you'll provide commercial leadership and contractual governance for key framework agreements supporting LV Services, Cable laying, Vegetation Management, and others. This is a highly influential role where you'll shape framework strategy, drive value from supplier relationships, manage contractual risk, and help ensure the successful delivery of critical network investment programmes.

If you're an experienced commercial leader who thrives in complex, high-value environments and enjoys building strong partnerships that deliver real results, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

- Lead the commercial and contractual governance of assigned frameworks, enabling the successful delivery of £100m+ annual capital investment programmes.

- Own the full framework lifecycle, including strategy development, mobilisation, contract administration, change management, performance management, and close-out.

- Manage framework funding, forecasts, expenditure risks, and contractual liabilities, ensuring compliance and continuity of delivery.

- Develop and implement framework strategies that provide commercial resilience and support evolving business priorities.

- Build and maintain strategic relationships with service partners, creating a collaborative environment that drives safety, performance, innovation, and value.

- Provide expert guidance on NEC3, NEC4 and FIDIC contract administration, supporting effective decision-making and risk management.

- Lead commercial discussions relating to compensation events, variations, claims, disputes, and contractual obligations.

- Analyse supplier performance and commercial data to identify opportunities for improvement and enhanced value delivery.

- Support resource and capacity planning activities, identifying delivery risks and recommending framework-based solutions.

- Coordinate service partner engagement during major operational events, including severe weather responses and network emergencies.

- Promote continuous improvement, innovation, cost efficiency, and best practice across all areas of framework management.

- Support effective communication and stakeholder engagement across operational, commercial and senior leadership teams.

- Undertake any other duties reasonably required within the scope of the role.

Working with Health & Safety Teams

- Collaborate to continually improve safety performance through shared learning, performance reviews, incident analysis, and lessons learned.

- Champion a strong safety culture across framework partners, ensuring compliance with SP Energy Networks standards and expectations.

Working with District Teams

- Build strong relationships with District teams to ensure contractual compliance, commercial discipline, and effective framework utilisation.

- Provide in-person support to operational teams, developing capability in NEC contract management and commercial best practice.

- Engage regularly with district depots and delivery teams to maintain visibility of operational challenges and opportunities.

Working with Service Partners

- Develop collaborative, long-term relationships with key framework partners.

- Conduct regular site and office visits to strengthen engagement, improve performance, and drive continuous improvement.

- Support robust stakeholder management and foster a culture of partnership, accountability and shared success.

What you'll bring

- Significant experience as a Quantity Surveyor, Commercial Manager or Contract Manager within utilities, energy, infrastructure, construction or major capital projects.

- Proven experience managing high-value contracts and framework agreements, with responsibility for substantial capital expenditure programmes.

- Strong working knowledge and practical application of NEC3 and NEC4 contracts, with familiarity of FIDIC forms of contract.

- Demonstrable experience in commercial management, cost control, forecasting, change management, valuations and risk management.

- Sound understanding of contract administration and commercial governance within large-scale infrastructure or engineering environments.

- Excellent commercial acumen, with the ability to balance strategic objectives, contractual obligations and operational delivery requirements.

- Strong negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills, with experience building effective relationships across suppliers, operational teams and senior leadership.

- Ability to analyse complex commercial issues and provide pragmatic, risk-based solutions.

- Proven ability to lead, manage and develop a small team, setting clear priorities and fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment.

- High levels of professionalism, integrity and attention to detail.

- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.

- Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Excel and commercial reporting systems.

- Self-motivated and adaptable, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

- Flexibility to travel across the licence area and adjust working hours where required to support operational priorities.

What’s in it for you

At Scottish Power, 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

Why SP Energy Networks
SP Energy Networks is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. We keep electricity flowing to homes and businesses through Central and Southern Scotland, North Wales and in the North West of England. We operate over 4000km of cables and lines that make-up the transmission network – connecting infrastructure like wind farms into the electricity system. It’s a role that puts us right at the heart of Scotland’s ambition to be Net Zero by 2044. And we’re taking it very seriously.

We’re investing billions into our networks, directly supporting the rapid growth needed in renewable energy. 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.

We are 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 .

Mobility
Please note that any applicant who is not a citizen of the country of the vacancy will be subject to compliance with the applicable immigration requirements to legally work in that country. If/when required, the Company will support the employee with the necessary Immigration requirements.

I MPORTANT
Advert will close at 23:59 GMT the day before Job Posting End Date below
November-30-2026