Licence Renewal Procurement Project Manager in Manchester

Join Smart DCC at a pivotal moment as we prepare for one of the most significant transformations in our history—the procurement and establishment of the future Successor Licensee. This role is central to ensuring a clean and compliant separation from our parent organisation and laying the commercial foundations for the next era of DCC. You’ll operate at the heart of a highly regulated, multi‑stakeholder environment, helping shape the future of Britain’s smart energy infrastructure.

How you will contribute to transforming energy and shaping the future:

• Lead all procurement activity required for the Licence Renewal Programme, ensuring alignment with key separation milestones and regulatory obligations.
• Develop and manage procurement plans, including RFPs, requirements definition, and evaluation processes.
• Identify, track, and mitigate procurement risks, ensuring timely management of issues.
• Maintain programme‑wide governance, documentation, and reporting, engaging cross‑functional teams throughout.
• Support change and communication workstreams to ensure impacted teams understand procurement decisions.

Your skills that will enable us to fulfil our purpose:

• Proven experience delivering procurement activity within large‑scale transformation, organisational separation, or M&A carve‑out programmes.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, commercial negotiation, and supplier lifecycle management.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, particularly in regulated or politically sensitive environments.
• Ability to operate effectively in a matrix environment with cross‑functional teams.
• Strong organisational, analytical, and problem‑solving capabilities.

About the DCC: We’re powering Britain’s smarter, greener future. Today, we’re deeply invested in building a resilient, sustainable smart energy network that drives transformation. Our success is driven by curiosity, ambition, and tenacity. Tomorrow, we see vast opportunities for growth and development, contributing to decarbonisation and the Net Zero mission. We’ll continually develop Smart DCC, to fulfil our obligations to consumers, and achieve even more with our customers, partners, and each other. Together, we embrace change, unite in our shared passions and support each other. Working as one team and across our industry, we rise to the challenge to shape Smart DCC, and the future.

A career at Smart DCC means being part of something bigger – a dynamic organisation that’s not just helping transform energy but also shaping the future. We offer a unique, fulfilling environment where you can thrive today, build tomorrow, and achieve together.

Company benefits: At DCC we reward fairly and recognise fully because our continued success depends on our people. We offer competitive salaries with regular benchmarking, together with bonuses tied to personal and company performance and our core benefits include pension, holidays and private healthcare. We want you to feel respected and able, so we also offer a competitive 8 days per month hybrid work policy together with other flexible benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

This is meaningful work, with meaningful reward.

Your application to help shape what’s next: Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you. As a Disability Confident member, DCC is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments, need a copy of this job advert in an alternative format, or have any other questions you’d like to ask before applying, please contact Stephanie.Owen@peregrineresourcing.com. Join the DCC, a dynamic organisation where every day brings a chance to make a difference.