At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage renewables contracts, ensuring smooth communication and resolution of client queries.
- Company: Join a rapidly expanding multi-service provider in the renewable energy sector.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with travel across the UK and excellent career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Be a trusted advisor in the renewable sector and drive impactful projects.
- Qualifications: Experience in contracts management within renewables or related fields is essential.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
Our client is a national multi-service provider delivering electrical, drainage, pumping and lighting solutions across the UK. The Group is rapidly expanding and includes a dedicated Renewables Team delivering end-to-end low-carbon solutions for commercial, industrial and public sector clients.
Stevenage, Office-based with hybrid working and regular travel to client sites across the UK. Working hours 8.30am 5.30pm Monday to Friday, with occasional flexibility to support client escalations.
The Role of a Renewables Contracts Manager:
- To own the day-to-day commercial and customer management of renewables contracts, ensuring accurate quoting, timely resolution of escalations, and clear communication between customers, the delivery team and project managers.
- The Contracts Manager will act as a trusted advisor to existing clients, identifying and developing organic opportunities that improve asset performance, reduce risk and expand our client's scope of work.
- Manage a portfolio of renewables clients, acting as the primary point of contact for commercial and operational queries.
- Produce and issue quotations for variations, remedials, additional works and lifecycle upgrades (PV, BESS, EV, electrical enabling works).
- Coordinate internally with project managers, engineering, procurement and subcontractors to build technically accurate and commercially robust quotes.
- Own escalation management: investigate issues, agree corrective actions, and ensure clear and timely communication to customers.
- Monitor contract performance (financial and operational), supporting governance, reporting and action tracking.
- Identify and develop organic growth opportunities within existing accounts, positioning Metcor as a trusted advisor.
- Support pricing strategy and margin protection by maintaining accurate cost build-ups, risk/assumption registers and approval workflows.
- Maintain accurate CRM and contract records, ensuring all client communications, quotes and actions are auditable and traceable.
Proven experience in a contracts management, commercial, or account management role within renewables, M&E, electrical, solar, battery, EV, utilities or FM environments.
Excellent stakeholder management skills, confident handling customer and supplier escalations and resolving issues professionally.
Strong commercial awareness: understanding of margins, risk, scope control, contractual obligations and performance reporting.
Experience collaborating with delivery teams and project managers to manage programmes, access/outages, dependencies and customer expectations.
Disciplined documentation and record keeping (contract files, quotes, approvals, meeting notes, action logs) with audit-ready standards.
Competent with Microsoft 365 (Excel, Word, Outlook) and CRM systems. Full UK driving licence.
Working knowledge of renewables project and O&M activities (e.g. Understanding of contract delivery models and commercial terms (scope, assumptions, exclusions, SLAs/KPIs, variations and change control).
Experience coordinating subcontractors/suppliers (rates, scope, performance, and resolution of defects/issues).
Working knowledge of site documentation and safe systems of work (RAMS, permits, site inductions, incident reporting) as applicable.
Desirable: familiarity with common forms of contract (e.g., NEC/JCT/FIDIC) and principles of early warnings, compensation/change events, and dispute avoidance.
Training & Certifications:
- Contract and commercial management training (formal or on-the-job).
- Customer service and escalation management training.
- QHSE training (RAMS awareness, incident reporting, and safe systems of work).
- Desirable: NEC/JCT/FIDIC short course and/or renewables awareness training (PV/BESS/EV/O&M).
Customer & Account Management, Quoting, Variations & Commercial Control, Communication with Delivery Teams & Project Managers
Contracts Manager ~ Public Sector employer: Beautiful Recruitment LLP
As a leading national multi-service provider, our client offers an exceptional work environment for Contracts Managers in the public sector, with a strong focus on employee growth and development. The hybrid working model allows for flexibility while maintaining a collaborative office culture in Stevenage, where you will play a pivotal role in delivering innovative low-carbon solutions. Join a rapidly expanding team that values your expertise and provides opportunities to enhance your skills in a dynamic and supportive atmosphere.
