Senior Contract Officer

About us

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as a Senior Contract Officer to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all.

Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

National Grid is hiring Senior Contract Officers for our Infrastructure Delivery team based in Warwick, Leeds and Sheffield.

About the role

As a Senior Contract Officer you will be supporting the Commercial Manager with the contractual interface for Contractors within National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET). You will be responsible for the provision of a holistic contract management service, owning the regular interaction with the contractors at a portfolio level, aggregating project issues to challenge contractor performance in all areas of delivery.

You will establish, implement and manage the KPI’s for the regional partners, analysing contractor performance and using insights to ensure contract compliance, driving continuous improvements and work collaboratively with the Contractors and National Grid to achieve the safe and cost-effective delivery of the capital plan.

We would expect you to apply insights from both an in-depth knowledge of a Contractors portfolio performance and proactively working with other business functions to monitor external market conditions to support, recommend and implement where appropriate commercial decisions

What you'll do

• Lead the Contract Officer function, fostering collaboration and driving consistency in Contractor relationships
• Support management to ensure commercial, contract and financial processes and procedures are adhered to, and contract compliance through effective contract management activities
• Accountable for ensuring supplier engagement is consistent and standardized where appropriate and contractor compliance is maintained
• Proactively work with other business functions to monitor internal and external market conditions, recommending and implementing, where appropriate Contractor management strategies to mitigate risk.
• Drive the development and implementation of appropriate reporting structure to capture all elements of contractor performance and ensure consistency of reporting of these across the contract function, leveraging key stakeholder relationships to lead this roll-out.
• Identify and implement opportunities to further develop the suite of benchmarking tools to support the continuous improvement of contractor performance
• Provide portfolio-level supplier management support, insights and advice to Project Delivery teams as required.
• Identify and lead on contract management improvement initiatives.

What you'll need

• Demonstratable experience of working with NEC terms and conditions (or equivalent)
• Strong commercial acumen, including procurement and supply chain experience / knowledge preferred
• Demonstrable experience of Contractor management
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and ability to build strong relationships across multiple teams
• Experience of working in Contract Management role and / or working with NEC terms and conditions
• Experience interfacing with multiple business functions and leveraging value through these relationships
• Strong communication skills, with ability to convey key messages to internal and external stakeholders
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills and experience
• Sound knowledge of preferred National Grid systems, including COUPA and Power BI for analysis of contractual performance information from a variety of sources, including KPIs

What you'll get

Annual salary of £55,000.00 and £65,000.00 per annum dependent on experience

• Annual Performance Based Bonus.
• 26 days annual leave plus eight statutory days.
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days.
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%.
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it’s relevant to your role.
• Access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days).
• Access to numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing.

More information

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) own the electricity transmission network in England and Wales. Every time you plug in your phone or flick a light switch, we’ve played a part. Not only are we responsible for delivering energy to millions of homes and businesses, we are also driving the move to cleaner energy, and the Government’s target of net zero emissions by 2050.

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is at the heart of energy in the UK. The electricity we provide gets the nation to work, powers schools and brings energy to life. Our energy network connects the nation, so it’s essential that it’s continually evolving, advancing, and improving.

In NGET we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. At the heart of achieving these outcomes is the effective control and operation of our network.

To find out more about us, please follow the link below:

https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/

The closing date for applications is 04/08/25

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