Contract Manager Opportunity – Energy & Natural Resource in Lincolnshire

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Controls & Performance team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provides great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is seeking an experienced Contract Manager to support a major UK infrastructure and energy programme. This role will sit within the client team and be responsible for leading contract change management activities across multiple complex and strategic contracts. You will work closely with senior commercial stakeholders to ensure that contract changes are identified, assessed, governed and implemented effectively while supporting programme objectives, commercial outcomes and risk management requirements.

This is an exciting opportunity to support the establishment and delivery of a first of a kind major programme environment, requiring individuals who are comfortable operating in a fast-paced setting with evolving priorities, ambiguity and complex stakeholder landscapes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the identification, assessment, governance and management of contract changes across multiple commercial workstreams.
• Ensure effective approval, documentation and implementation of contractual changes in line with governance requirements.
• Manage change control processes, including evaluation of cost, schedule, risk and operational impacts.
• Support the negotiation and agreement of contract changes with suppliers, contractors and key stakeholders.
• Lead contract management activities for one or more high-profile, complex and strategic contracts.
• Manage all aspects of the contract lifecycle including mobilisation, delivery, performance management, change control, transition and contract close-out activities.
• Ensure effective stakeholder engagement, governance, performance management, risk mitigation, escalation and compliance throughout contract execution.
• Assess and manage contract variations, providing practical advice and commercial recommendations.
• Support the development and implementation of programme-wide contract change and commercial governance frameworks.
• Evaluate contract performance and value for money, ensuring contracts deliver intended commercial and strategic outcomes.
• Oversee the realisation and tracking of benefits arising from contract performance improvement and change initiatives.
• Drive innovation and continuous improvement across contract management and commercial processes.
• Manage risk and reward mechanisms, contractual incentives and KPI performance frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to improve contract outcomes through effective change strategies and commercial interventions.
• Lead supplier performance management activities, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations and delivery of agreed outcomes.
• Resolve commercial issues and disputes in a proactive and collaborative manner.
• Advise on and mitigate risks to continuity of supply, operational delivery and programme performance.
• Maintain accurate contract records, management information, reporting and commercial documentation.
• Support procurement and commercial activities where contract amendments, variations or new contractual arrangements are required.
• Work within project governance frameworks and industry best practice to deliver compliant and effective commercial outcomes.
• Prepare and present clear commercial reporting, recommendations and change approvals to senior stakeholders.

Qualifications

Essential

• Significant experience in contract management, contract change management or commercial management on major infrastructure, engineering or energy programmes.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end contract lifecycle management principles.
• Experience managing medium to high-value, high-risk and complex contracts.
• Demonstrable experience managing contractual change processes, including governance, approvals and implementation.
• Experience negotiating contract variations, claims and commercial settlements.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to evaluate value for money and contractual performance.
• Knowledge of contract law principles and their practical application.
• Experience managing commercial risks and developing mitigation strategies.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all organisational levels.
• Experience developing and maintaining contract management plans, reporting and performance frameworks.

Desirable

• Experience procuring consultancy, engineering, construction or major project contracts.
• Understanding of public sector procurement regulations and governance frameworks.
• Experience working within highly regulated or government-related programme environments.
• Understanding of supplier performance management, KPI frameworks and commercial assurance processes.
• Knowledge of NEC, FIDIC or other standard forms of contract.
• Experience supporting programme-wide commercial governance and change control frameworks.

Qualifications

Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Law, Business or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. Professional qualifications such as RICS, CICES, MCIPS or equivalent are desirable.

Additional Information

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.