Contract Manager

Low Carbon Contracts Company; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A government-related energy organization is seeking a Contract Manager in Leeds to actively manage contracts that enable investment in low-carbon energy. The role requires excellent relationship management and communication skills to work with government and industry stakeholders. You'll be responsible for participating in the exciting growth of the sector and ensuring robust, transparent contracts. This position offers numerous benefits, including a performance-based bonus and generous annual leave.

Benefits

Annual performance based bonus

25 days annual leave

8% pension contribution

Employee referral scheme

Volunteering days

Gym discounts

Qualifications

• Experience as a Contract Manager or similar role in the energy or infrastructure sector.
• Technical understanding of energy projects.
• Ability to build relationships with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage contracts enabling investment in low-carbon energy.
• Build relationships to help counterparties meet contractual requirements.
• Communicate with government and industry stakeholders.

Skills

Relationship management

Communication

Analytical skills

Project management

Job description

Contract Manager

Department: Scheme Delivery

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Reporting To: Lead Contract Manager

Description

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: 37.5/week

Salary: circa £60k depending on experience

Location: Leeds

WFH policy: At least two days a week in the office (and or on site), and you’re welcome to come in more often

Flexible working: Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight.

Reports to: Lead Contract Manager

Deadline Note: We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.

We’re an independent company and arms-length governmental body, set up and owned by the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ). We administer the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, which aims to encourage investment in low carbon electricity generation. In 2024, projects managed under CfD’s generated enough energy to power 15.2 million homes and mitigated 2,818,008 tons of CO2 emissions.

Help accelerate the UK net zero ambitions.

As a Contract Manager at the Low Carbon Contracts Company (LCCC), you will be actively managing the contracts that enable investment in low-carbon energy.

As we enter a period of exciting growth, the role will evolve. It is currently quite operational, and will expand to offer opportunities in project management and advisory work.

New & Bespoke Schemes

Join a team at the forefront of the UK’s Net Zero transition. This role supports the Uk Government by shaping the design and implementation of new low-carbon business models and contractual frameworks. You’ll help translate policy ambition into clear, commercially workable contracts, working across technologies such as carbon removals, bioenergy, hydrogen, and sustainable fuels.

The role involves engaging directly with government, industry, and legal advisors to solve complex commercial and operational challenges, ensuring that the UK’s investment-grade contracts are robust, transparent, and capable of delivering long-term decarbonisation at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Relationship management: Doing whatever it takes to help counterparties succeed. The role isn’t about policing or simply checking contracts, but about creating positive relationships that help counterparties meet contractual requirements.
• Building trust; identifying, understanding and resolving issues in a timely way; understanding counterparties’ challenges and positions; having conversations that make a positive impact.
• Communicating clearly and confidently. Developing, articulating, and standing by LCCC positions.
• Quickly building and developing excellent working relationships with LCCC colleagues. This is a rapidly growing organisation; you’ll need to advocate for your projects internally and support their prioritisation whilst also supporting Assistant Contract Managers and Graduates in their development.
• Advocating for our counterparties, using our unique position as a government owned, arm’s-length body.
• Analysing, testing and progressing information from government and counterparties.
• Collaborating with and supporting stakeholders to meet all contractual requirements.
• Presenting high-quality, reliable data using the appropriate templates.
• Using our expertise as the only people in the UK managing these types of contracts to influence stakeholders.
• Understanding how the projects in your team influence the wider portfolio of projects. You will know how to feed that information to stakeholders, providing early warnings when appropriate.
• Gathering in-depth, trustworthy information about trends, and the impact that changes in policy, process and procedure can have on different stakeholders.
• Understanding how a change in technical, financial or legal perspective can influence a project.
• Doing whatever you can to help get Projects and Contracts over the line.
• Understanding the Contracts for Difference mechanism, processes and systems, and raising any potential issues in advance.
• Managing and communicating information in a timely and accurate way, prioritising multiple Projects and raising potential issues before they become problematic.
• Pro-actively sharing ideas for improvements to processes and procedures.

About You

You are already a successful Contract Manager or Assistant Contract Manager, with a technical or energy background, or exposure to infrastructure projects before investment decision or during the construction process.

Employee Benefits

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. Key benefits that may be available depending on the role include:

• Annual performance based bonus, up to 10%
• 25 days annual leave, plus eight bank holidays
• Up to 8% pension contribution
• Financial support and time off for study relevant to your role, plus a professional membership subscription
• Employee referral scheme (up to £1500), and colleague recognition scheme
• Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave and shared parental leave
• Free, confidential employee assistance, including financial management, family care, mental health, and on-call GP service
• Three paid volunteering days a year
• Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
• Family savings on days out and English Heritage, gym discounts, cash back and discounts at selected retailers
• Employee resource groups