Contract Manager

Contract Manager

Department: Scheme Delivery

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Birmingham, England, United Kingdom;
Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Reporting To: Lead Contract Manager

Compensation: £50,000 - £60,000 / year

Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 / week

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 depending on experience

Location: Birmingham or Leeds
Vacancies: 4

WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week

Flexible working
:
Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight.

Reports to: Lead Contract Manager
Deadline

Note:

We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.

Role

Summary:

The Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC) is a private limited company wholly owned by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. We play a key role in the transformation of the UK’s electricity system by ensuring future supply is secure, low-carbon, and affordable as the UK progresses towards Net Zero 2050. We are the counter party to the Contracts for Difference (CfD).

The CfD is a scheme through which low-carbon generation is supported to compete with conventional fossil fuel generation. The CfD Scheme currently has over 500 CfD Agreements, spanning different technologies such as offshore wind, floating offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, tidal stream, geothermal, remote island wind, advanced conversion technology, and biomass conversion.

At LCCC, we further support the Government’s net zero ambitions through the development of contractual mechanisms that make First of a Kind (FOAK) projects investable, attracting billions of pounds of investments. We are the counter party to contracts for Hydrogen, Carbon Capture, Utilisation & Storage (CCUS), and Nuclear schemes, and will be the counter party to a growing range of other new and bespoke schemes such as, Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR), Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), and other government-mandated programmes.

We are responsible for ensuring these schemes are constructed and operated as intended, preserving value for money for government and consumers, whilst maintaining investors’ confidence.

We exist to help decarbonise the generation of electricity and make it more affordable for the future. Our work is central to the delivery of the Government’s objective to achieve Net Zero target by 2050.

Contract Managers are responsible for the day-to-day relationship and contract management of their assigned portfolio of contracts. Given that LCCC is a not-for-profit organisation, this is not a typical contract or commercial management role. Performance is not measured against a bottom line, but instead by two guiding principles: to maintain investors’ confidence in the schemes and to minimise cost to consumers, whilst enabling the delivery of the projects.

Under each individual contract we share common objectives with our counter parties, and based on the long-term nature of the contracts, relationship management is a significant part of the Contract Manager’s role. Interaction with counter parties is frequent during the contract lifecycle (20+ years), and particularly during the initial 4-5 years, when projects are going through the development and construction phases. Contract Managers often communicate with their respective counter parties on a weekly/fortnightly basis when they are close to achieving contractual milestones, and less frequently once the projects are in operation.

Site visits to each project are also undertaken at least once a year and provide a unique opportunity to gain exposure to several leading-edge technologies implemented as part of the multimillion/billion GBP projects.

The Contract Managers also support wider Scheme Delivery Team and LCCC initiatives, and regularly interface with both internal (Legal, Data & Analytics, Finance, etc.) and external (Ofgem, EMRS, DESNZ etc.) stakeholders.

• Enabling the delivery of contracts, from signature into operations, so that the project delivers its low carbon energy (renewable power generation, hydrogen production, CCUS).
• Day-to-day relationship and…