Contracts Manager

Overview

Department: Finance

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: UK - London

Compensation: £55,000 - £75,000 / year

The Contracts Manager will lead the contract management for Field’s projects through the development, construction, operational and maintenance phases of the project lifecycle. In addition to ongoing contract management responsibilities, you will be involved in construction procurement activities across the business. You will report directly to the Commercial Lead, in a team responsible for over £1bn of spend over the next two years, across multiple geographies.

You will manage Field’s construction contracts from a commercial perspective and will work closely with contractors, internal construction and technical teams, and finance to validate variations and claims from the scope applying the required commercial scrutiny and will manage the Payment Application process throughout the lifecycle of the contract.

You will be the key commercial point of contact for our projects once in contract. You will use this experience to refine our approach to future tender activities and will be involved in the tender processes for each of our projects to ensure we achieve a competitive price without compromising on quality, delivery or schedule. In the process, you will help negotiate robust contracts (alongside Legal) with suitable commercial structures which protect Field and ensure contractors are appropriately incentivised to meet their obligations.

Finally this role will also be strategic, and you will play a key role in helping scale our capabilities across new geographies and continually improve our ways of working. We have already established teams in Italy, Spain and Germany and have plans to expand into more European geographies soon.

• Lead on all commercial contract matters during the construction phase of our projects
  • Support our construction project managers to manage a robust contract process from contract signatures to taking over and contract close, including:
    • Review, assess and respond to contract Notices and Claims
    • Manage the variations process across our contracts (including assessment of values)
    • Ensure efficient and robust management of the contractor payment application process
    • Attend contractor progress meetings (on site where applicable) and lead sections relating to commercial contract matters.
  • Work with finance and technical teams to refine how we evaluate contract variations and extensions of time, so that we amend the project schedule and budget each month.
  • Feedback lessons learned to the wider team to improve the contract management process
• Support on construction and battery energy storage system (BESS) tenders
  • Help define our procurement strategy across multiple capital projects (EPC full wrap, partial wrap, split, etc.)
  • Participate in tender activity - issuing RFI/Qs, prequalifying suppliers, and defining clear metrics to assess their commercial submissions
  • With support from the wider Supply Chain & Procurement team, develop appropriate levers to negotiate commercially favourable outcomes for Field
  • Work with our in-house technical team to help onboard new contractors and further refine our project requirements
  • Help ensure contractors proposals are comprehensive and commercially watertight
• Assist with O&M procurement and contract management activities
  • Help carry out end to end procurement activities for O&M contracts, running concurrently with construction project procurement activities
  • Assist the day to day contract management for O&M contracts
• Continuous construction procurement and contract management improvement
  • Identify weaknesses in our processes and continually strive to improve the way we work
  • Develop innovative ways to improve performance and save money
  • Where necessary, support with implementing new systems/software and roll out to cross-functional teams
• Scaling construction procurement capabilities
  • Help scale our construction procurement capabilities both in the UK and overseas
  • Help onboard new members of the team and work with them to build best-in-class scalable processes and procedures
  • Assist in finding new talent to grow the team

A bit about you:

• Humble and hands-on team player, necessary in a small company environment
• Exceptional ability to draw out clear, concise insights from very complex problems
• Ability to work well with others at all levels, including senior management
• Ability to work to tight timescales and deadlines
• Ability to multitask, manage time effectively, and plan across multiple initiatives
• Willingness to form and voice your own opinions on technology, company and country strategy, and industry direction
• Strong communicator

Experience and skills we look for:

• A minimum of 3 years experience carrying out contract management, procurement or commercial activities for complex construction projects
• Ideally working in a Client/Developer organisation in the Energy Sector
• Some experience managing EPC or split contracts…