Senior Contract Governance Manager

AWE is recruiting a Senior Contract Governance Manager to develop and implement infrastructure contracts, frameworks and collaboration agreements, and to provide advice and guidance on contract management, ensuring the objectives of AWE are met in contract and spirit.

Salary: from £63,000 to £80,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking. Plan to relocate to Green Park (Reading) from Oct 2025.

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

As the Senior Contracts Governance Manager, you will be developing and implementing contracting policy, boilerplate templates, frameworks for contract management planning and keep up to date on overarching governance. You will also work with stakeholders across commercial, including complex construction contracts, providing advice and guidance on contract management.

Who are we looking for?

We are ideally seeking individuals with experience in public sector procurement / contract management, who have public procurement regulations knowledge. You will have an understanding of the end-to-end procurement process, including pre and post contract, and experienced NEC practitioner with ideally experience in CEMAR to manage contracts. To ensure success as a Senior Contract Governance Manager, you should have previous experience defining NEC 4 and/or CCS contract terms. Represent AWE across MOD and Government on the Cross Government Construction Commercial Working Group.

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we’d like you to have experience in some of the following:

• NEC accreditation or experience.
• CCS contract experience preferable.
• Experience in business governance and public sector governance.
• Experience in scoping deliverables.
• Experience in contract variation management.
• Experience in budgetary control.

Some reasons we think you’ll love it here:

• AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you.
• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.
• Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically 2 days onsite per week.

Next steps:

Everyone who works at AWE brings unique skills and perspectives to the table. We recognise that great people don’t always ‘tick every box’. That’s why we focus on your potential, your fit with our values, your transferable skills as well as your experience. Even if you don’t meet every point above, but you feel that this role and AWE are a great fit for you, please go ahead and apply, we’d love to receive your application.

Important things you need to know:

• We encourage you to apply promptly to avoid disappointment if applications are high and the role therefore closes.
• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE.
• The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.
• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.
• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.
• Our ambition is to create workplaces where we recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and our employees feel able to be themselves at work. We strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.
• Any inclusion information you provide will be stored in accordance with GDPR and kept separate from your application form and CV, and the information will not be shared with anyone involved in interviewing or making hiring decisions.
• Please note that you must be a British Citizen to apply for a role with us.