Commercial Contract Manager

At National Grid, we keep people connected and society moving. But it’s so much more than that. National Grid supplies us with the environment to make it happen. As we generate momentum in the energy transition for all, we don’t plan on leaving any of our customers in the dark. So, join us as a Commercial Contract Manager, and find your superpower. 

As a Commercial Contract Manager, you’ll play a key part in unlocking the full potential of our land and property assets, ensuring we deliver safe, effective, and efficient property services that support our strategic objectives.

As a valued member of the Contract Management team, you’ll take the lead on managing contractual changes and driving commercial negotiations with confidence and expertise. Your work will directly influence high-profile services across Facilities Management, from leading commercial changes, updating service contract scopes and administering all variations. This is a wide-reaching role, liaising with various business units, facilitating workshops and stakeholder meetings. This is your opportunity to make a tangible impact, collaborate with diverse teams, and help us deliver excellence across our property portfolio.

The role is based in Warwick, with an expectation of attending the office one to two days per week, with flexibility to suit business needs. We are open to discussing alternative working arrangements to support individual circumstances.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with the Lead Contract Manager, Contract Manager, and operational teams to foster strong partnerships and seamless cross-functional working.
• Manage contracts and supplier relationships, including Facilities Management service providers, ensuring strong commercial governance.
• Control contractual scope, costs and change processes, securing appropriate senior approvals.
• Maintain accurate contract documentation and variations.
• Monitor and analyse performance data, including KPIs, risk and financial metrics.
• Build and maintain strong supplier and stakeholder relationships, promoting safety, innovation, and commercial efficiency.
• Drive consistent supplier performance, ensuring commercial processes and requirements are adhered to
• Manage supplier compliance activities, ensuring adherence to internal, contract and legislative requirements.
• Support audits and wider contract management activities as required.
• Support procurement activities, including input into tenders and commercial evaluation.
• Provide commercial input and advice on NEC contract drafting.

What You’ll Have:

• Proven experience in contract management and delivering commercial change, ideally within Facilities Management or service contracts. 
• Strong analytical capability, with experience using data to inform commercial decisions.
• Advanced Excel and Power BI skills, with an interest in improving ways of working through systems and automation.
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at all levels.
• Ability to perform effectively in a fast paced environment.
• Knowledge of contract mobilisation and scope change management.
• Experience assessing supplier capability and alignment with business objectives.
• Experience within the energy or utilities sector and/or multi site environments is desirable 
• Good understanding of Health & Safety requirements.
• Familiarity with NEC contracts is desirable but not essential.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At National Grid, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace for everyone. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience or qualifications don’t match the job description exactly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the right person for our growing business in this role or another one.

What You'll Get:

A competitive salary between £50,000 - £57,000 per annum – dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a bonus based on personal and company performance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few.

More Information:

This role closes on 14 April at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary.

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About Us:

National Grid is pioneering ways to decarbonise the energy system; from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the United States.