Senior Pre-Contract Associate

CityFibre; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications provider is seeking a Senior Pre-Contract Associate in Salford, UK. This hybrid role involves leading contract drafting, supporting strategic sourcing initiatives, and collaborating with various stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have strong Excel skills, experience in contracts, and the ability to manage multiple tasks. Benefits include a salary of up to £50,000, a performance-related bonus, and comprehensive well-being support.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Supportive family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Solid understanding of legal and commercial documents.
• Confident handling sensitive information.
• Detail-driven and organized.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex contract drafting and support strategic sourcing.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive process improvements and support workload balance.

Skills

Strong Excel skills

Experience in contracts

Ability to juggle multiple tasks

Experience working under pressure

Ability to connect with teams

Job description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. Youll join your colleagues in your local office at least once a month.

As the UKs largest fibre-only network and its only proven wholesale challenger were busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet our network is greener more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed value and service they help businesses to innovate provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Senior Pre-Contract Associate

Youll lead complex contract drafting and support strategic sourcing initiatives across major infrastructure projects. Youll oversee quality assurance mentor team members and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficient and compliant contract delivery. This flexible role offers the opportunity to drive continuous improvement and play a key part in shaping our network build strategy.

Youll receive a salary of up to 50000 a performance related bonus and a range of benefits to support you across your financial physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing :

• Act as a key connector between day-to-day contracting and strategic tendering helping to shape how contracts are managed and improved
• Provide senior-level coordination across tools and processes including benchmarking indexation trackers and standardising documentation
• Step in to support contract drafting and rate management when needed
• Work closely with the Senior Pre-Contracts Manager to drive process improvements and support team workload balance
• Collaborate with a remote team across the UK and Ireland with monthly travel for team connection and face-to-face collaboration

What you can bring to the role

This role suits someone whos naturally organised detail-driven confident handling sensitive information open to feedback and passionate about making things better. Youll also have :

• Strong Excel skills (Pivot Tables VLOOKUPs and HLOOKUPs)to manage data with ease
• Experiencein contracts - a solid understanding of legal and commercial documents even if not formally qualified
• Abilityto juggle multiple tasks while keeping everything accurate and on track
• Experience working under pressure and responding positively to feedback and change
• Ability to connect with different teams and stakeholders and bring people together to get things done

Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

Were a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. Were endorsed by WORK180 and were a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Gold Covenant are a Care Leaver Friendly Employer and were a Disability Confident Leader. Working together with our Employee Communities were wholly committed to ensuring that our peoples voices are heard and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If youd like to explore our culture and values check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave a day off on your birthday a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

Additional Information :

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background family or carer status ethnicity sexual orientation religion age disability gender or gender identity we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process please email us at We want to help!

Remote Work: No

Employment Type: Full-time

Key Skills

IVR,SOAP,Avaya,Solaris,Cost Accounting Standards,Database Design,Hibernate,ITIL,Weblogic,Express.js,Contracts,ASP

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1