Head of Contracts

3 months ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Scottish Power Full time

Head of Contracts

Glasgow HQ, St Vincent Street

Salary from £64,000 - £80,000 and car allowance

Up to 30% bonus and family health cover

Hybrid/Flexible Working Pattern

Help us create a better future, quicker

This is a great opportunity to join our General Services UK (GSUK) Commercial team as the Head of Contracts, leading a team of purchasing specialists to deliver Scottish Power wide contracts across Scotland, England and Wales. You will be responsible for leading a team of experts to define contracting strategies and plans, tendering, negotiating, and managing multi-million contracts for multiple customers and stakeholders, balancing conflicting priorities in a fast-paced environment.

You will work closely with our supply chain and maintain effective relationships with the major suppliers and contractors to deliver against our business strategy, whilst negotiating and advising on agreements to ensure a continued focus remains on best value, business needs, and our statutory compliance requirements.
- What you’ll be doing_
- Day to day you will be leading a team of contract management and QS experts to define contracting strategies and plans, tender, negotiate and manage multi-million-pound capex and service delivery contracts across a +£200m portfolio
- You will effectively drive world class commercial and contractual management identifying and implementing change where required
- You will establish and manage stakeholder relationships across Senior Scottish Power and Iberdrola Executives
- You will use your experience and expertise to advise on prevention and resolution of any contractual issues and claims
- You will advise on negotiations and agreements to ensure a continued focus remains on best value, business needs, and our statutory compliance requirements
- You will manage our contractual risk, looking forward and making decisions to ensure we mitigate appropriately
- You will lead and develop a Contract Management Team ensuring that your team develop the necessary skills, knowledge, and capacity to mitigate commercial, legal, and regulatory risks to the businesses
- What you’ll bring_
- We’ll look for you to have previous experience of delivering contracts through a competitive tender process
- You should have a detailed understanding of contract management process including experience in completion of tender specification documents and tender assessment for large scale commercial contract in excess of £4m
- We would look for you to be educated to degree level in Financial, Procurement, Law, Business Management or Contract Management discipline or equivalent experience underpinned by an understanding of Contract Law, Data Protection legislation, IFRS16 accounting standards, TUPE legislation and other laws relevant to your day to day
- What’s in it for you_

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we’ll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it’s the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family’s wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That’s why our benefits include:

- 36 days annual leave
- Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave
- Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme
- Payroll giving and charity matched funding
- Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes
- Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change
- Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving
- Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans
- Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments
- Access to ‘nudge’ financial wellbeing support
- Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more
- Why ScottishPower_

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world’s largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we’re at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more

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