Development Manager

Contract Development Manager

Department: Scheme Delivery

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Contract type: Full time

Hours: 37.5

Salary: circa £55k depending on experience

Location: Leeds

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: Senior Contract Development Manager / Lead Commercial 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 Contract Development Manager is a specialist commercial role with ownership of defined contract development work streams on assigned low‑carbon energy schemes. The work spans the full arc of contract design: from developing LCCC's positions at Heads of Terms through full contract design, covering risk allocation, payment mechanics, contractual triggers, revenue adjustment mechanisms, termination provisions and change in law arrangements. The output is commercial architecture that is investable, bankable and operationally deliverable – and that works in practice, not just on paper.

LCCC's position is distinctive: as the recognised counter party for new low‑carbon schemes, it advises government and works alongside its external legal and technical advisers on how contracts should be structured, from the inside. The Contract Development Manager is central to that advisory function, ensuring that what is drafted by government lawyers reflects what LCCC's commercial analysis supports and what the organisation can genuinely operationalise over the life of the scheme.

Where schemes are live, the Contract Development Manager engages with executed contracts to enable their effective delivery, helping counter parties meet their contractual requirements and supporting low‑carbon projects to succeed. The role operates with a significant degree of independence, owning work streams and managing stakeholder relationships at working level.

This is not a typical commercial management role. Performance is not measured against a commercial bottom line, but against LCCC's two guiding principles: maintaining investor confidence in low‑carbon schemes, and minimising cost to consumers whilst enabling the delivery of low‑carbon projects.

• Own defined contract development work streams on assigned schemes, taking commercial requirements from Heads of Terms through full contract design – covering risk allocation, payment mechanics, contractual triggers, termination provisions, change in law arrangements and revenue adjustment mechanisms – ensuring the resulting contractual architecture is technically robust, commercially sound and operationally deliverable.
• Develop and own LCCC's commercial positions at Heads of Terms, providing the analytical and commercial foundation from which government lawyers develop contractual provisions, and ensuring that what is drafted accurately reflects what the scheme requires and what LCCC can operationalise as counter party.
• Design, develop and test payment structures, risk‑sharing arrangements and other contractual mechanics for assigned schemes, including scenario modelling and stress‑testing, to inform government decision‑making at Phase Gate and other key milestones.
• Work alongside government departmental external legal and technical advisers at working level, providing commercially grounded challenge and input to scope validation, assumptions testing and the development of contractual provisions.
• Own commercial briefings, risk assessments and Phase Gate documentation for assigned work streams, ensuring decisions and residual risks…