Senior Pre-Contract Associate

Senior Pre-Contract Associate – CityFibre UK

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office at least once a month.

As the UK’s largest fibre‑only network and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be. Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable, and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, but help businesses innovate and give communities a better foundation for their digital lives, supporting economic growth locally and nationally.

What that means for you – the opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better for a lot of people.

Joining us as a Senior Pre-Contract Associate

You’ll lead complex contract drafting and support strategic sourcing initiatives across major infrastructure projects. You’ll oversee quality assurance, mentor team members and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficient and compliant contract delivery. This flexible role offers the opportunity to drive continuous improvement and play a key part in shaping our network build strategy.

You’ll receive a salary of up to 50000 plus a performance related bonus and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

What you can expect to be doing

• Act as a key connector between day‑to‑day contracting and strategic tendering, helping to shape how contracts are managed and improved
• Provide senior‑level coordination across tools and processes, including benchmarking indexation trackers and standardising documentation
• Step in to support contract drafting and rate management when needed
• Work closely with the Senior Pre‑Contracts Manager to drive process improvements and support team workload balance
• Collaborate with a remote team across the UK and Ireland with monthly travel for team connection and face‑to‑face collaboration

What you’ll bring to the role

This role suits someone who’s naturally organised, detail‑driven, confident handling sensitive information, open to feedback and passionate about making things better. You’ll also have:

• Strong Excel skills (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs and HLOOKUPs) to manage data with ease
• Experience in contracts – a solid understanding of legal and commercial documents even if not formally qualified
• Ability to juggle multiple tasks while keeping everything accurate and on track
• Experience working under pressure and responding positively to feedback and change
• Ability to connect with different teams and stakeholders and bring people together to get things done

Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and are a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Gold Covenant, are a Care Leaver Friendly Employer and were a Disability Confident Leader. Working together with our Employee Communities we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice and a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, supportive family‑friendly and menopause policies.

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full-time

Additional Information:

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender or gender identity we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process please email us – we want to help!

Key Skills: IVR, SOAP, Avaya, Solaris, Cost Accounting Standards, Database Design, Hibernate, ITIL, Weblogic, Express.js, Contracts, ASP

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1