Framework Manager

Assystem UK Ltd; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working opportunity

Pension scheme (8% company contrib / 4

25 days' paid annual leave + bank hols

Professional fees reimbursed

Employee referral scheme

Sick pay

Income protection & 3x salary death-in

Gym access

Employee support line

Job summary

Assystem is seeking a Framework Manager to identify and nurture key stakeholder relationships, ensuring framework strategy is understood and delivered to high quality standards. You will support bids, develop controls, and monitor value delivery across multiple frameworks.

You will work in a hybrid environment in Bristol, collaborating across teams to refine business plans and ensure projects meet QA and contractual requirements.

Qualifications

• Curious, drives changes across the business through people, process, and culture.
• Able to manage in ambiguity and manage multiple priorities.
• Able to flex approach and communication style to the situation and meet different stakeholder requirements.
• Demonstrates energy and commitment to deliver.
• Able to remain resilient and bounce back from setbacks.
• Questions and challenges others to get to the root cause of issues.
• Looks for and delivers innovative solutions.
• Is prepared to take calculated risks and learns from failure.
• Openly challenges poor practices or behaviours.
• Demonstrates active listening, engagement, and collaboration and places customer needs at heart of actions.

Responsibilities

• Identify key contacts within stakeholder businesses and build ongoing collaborative relationships to drive interest in Assystem.
• Understand framework strategy and operational parameters; ensure requirements are delivered to high quality standards.
• Support the bid team in tendering and positioning for future framework opportunities.
• Develop and maintain framework management controls for effective delivery of proposals and profiles.
• Develop framework management tools to monitor activity spend, client satisfaction, and value/savings.
• Ensure frameworks reviewed by Legal and that contractual matters are understood by the project team.
• Represent Assystem at framework level, supplier reviews, and bidders' forums.
• Contribute to refining and implementing the business plan for future framework opportunities.
• Ensure projects in the portfolio are aligned with QA requirements and company policies.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Change management

Ambiguity handling

Prioritization

Resilience

Problem solving

Innovative thinking

Collaboration

Active listening

Job description

Framework Manager

Date: 2026-10-18

Location: Bristol, Bristol, GB, BS1 5

Application Deadline: 2026-11-17T10:00:20.253

Company Description

About Assystem

At Assystem, our mission is to accelerate the energy transition worldwide. Our 8,000 Switchers blend historical engineering expertise with cutting-edge digital technologies to drive this change. Join us in revolutionizing the energy sector and making a significant global impact.

Why Join the Community of Switchers?

Be part of one of the top three largest independent nuclear engineering companies globally. At Assystem, you'll contribute to groundbreaking projects that push the boundaries of innovation and engineering excellence. Join a community committed to driving forward the future of energy.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• To identify the appropriate key contacts within stakeholder businesses and to build and maintain ongoing collaborative relationships with them to better drive interest and engagement with Assystem.
• Fully understand the strategy and operational parameters of each assigned Framework agreement and engage with the wider teams to ensure that all Framework requirements are understood correctly and being delivered to high quality standards and client an understanding of the full Assystem capability, drawing on expertise within our business to advise clients on available solutions supporting Assystem's strategy for growth.
• Support the bid team in tendering and positioning for future framework opportunities.
• Develop and ensure that sufficient and appropriate framework management controls are in place to enable effective delivery of proposals and profiles.
• Develop framework management tools to enable feedback, whilst monitoring both the activity spend on the Framework, client satisfaction and the delivery of value for money and savings.
• Ensure that all frameworks have been reviewed by Legal and that all contractual matters are understood correctly by the project team.
• Represent Assystem at a framework level, supplier's reviews, and bidders' forums.
• Participate in the refinement, and implementation of the business plan for future framework opportunities.
• Ensure that all projects in the assigned portfolio are set up and executed in a manner consistent with company expectations, policies, procedures and that all appropriate quality assurance (QA) requirements are in place.
• Ensure that all projects are reviewed in a monthly project review or other agreed basis to identify current and anticipated problems and opportunities.
• Ensure that all projects in the Framework achieve or exceed their as-sold GM from each project.

Qualifications & Experience

• Curious, drives changes across the business through people, process, and culture.
• Able to manage in ambiguity and manage multiple priorities.
• Able to flex approach and communication style to the situation and meet different stakeholder requirements.
• Demonstrates energy and commitment to deliver.
• Able to remain resilient and bounce back from setbacks.
• Questions and challenges others to get to the root cause of issues.
• Looks for and delivers innovative solutions.
• Is prepared to take calculated risks and learns from failure.
• Openly challenges poor practices or behaviours.
• Demonstrates active listening, engagement, and collaboration and places customer needs at heart of actions.
• Builds strong internal and external relationships and networks.
• Openly shares knowledge and ideas with others.
• Collaborates with others to deliver effective solutions.
• Takes accountability for delivering consistent high-quality outputs.
• Leads self (and others if in management/leadership role) to make continuous improvements and add value.
• Monitors, reviews and adjusts (if required) own and project performance.

Additional Information

Join us at Assystem and be part of a global team delivering some of the most exciting and complex engineering projects in the world. This is your chance to shape the UK's energy future while developing your expertise in a unique environment.

• Hybrid Working Opportunity
• Flexible working hours
• Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
• 25 days' paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
• Professional fees reimbursed
• Employee referral scheme
• Competitive Sick Pay - Support when you need it
• Income Protection & 3x Salary Death-in-Service Cover
• Free Digital Gym Access - Expert-led fitness classes
• 24/7 Employee Support Line - Mental health, financial & legal help

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people's ability to dare are the only things that matter!

Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future!

Notice to Candidates

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Summary

• Type: Full-time
• Function: Sales
• Experience level: Mid-Senior Level
• Industry: Management Consulting