Strategic Energy Frameworks Lead

Circet Ireland & UK; Slough; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Life assurance

Employee Assistance Programmes

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Circet Ireland & UK is hiring a Business Development Manager to lead framework development and pre-contract positioning in the UK electricity market, focusing on distribution and transmission networks. The role acts as a hub between clients and internal teams to prepare for market engagement, tenders, and awards.

You will work on opportunities across underground cables, overhead lines, substations and related infrastructure, coordinating internal readiness and ensuring client requirements are

Qualifications

• Experience in frameworks, pre-contract, client/account management or work winning within electricity networks or major infrastructure.
• Track record of managing framework qualification and tender activity with regulated utilities or infrastructure clients.
• Strong commercial awareness and knowledge of framework contracting, ideally including NEC.

Responsibilities

• Maintain visibility of DNO and TO investment programmes, framework strategies and procurement routes.
• Own the D&T framework and opportunity register in Salesforce with clear priorities, actions and status.
• Develop plans for priority operators and identify market engagement, qualification, PQQ and tender entry points.
• Lead structured engagement with UK DNOs and transmission owners across asset, delivery, procurement, commercial and technical functions.
• Understand client priorities, procurement strategies through ED2/ED3 and RIIO-T2/T3 cycles.
• Develop existing network operator relationships and establish relationships with additional mainland UK DNOs and TOs.
• Attend client and industry events to progress the pipeline.
• Act as a trusted advisor sharing best practice and advocating innovation with clients, supply chain and internally.
• Coordinate market engagement, PQQ, bid/no-bid and tender activity with estimating, commercial, operations and technical teams.
• Ensure proposed solutions align client requirements with Circet's delivery capability, resource and risk appetite.
• Support pre-award review of scope, commercial and contractual requirements, and handover of awarded frameworks.
• Provide DNO/TO market intelligence to support strategy, capability development and investment decisions.
• Identify readiness gaps across people, accreditations, technical capability, systems and supply chain.
• Maintain reporting on priority frameworks, client actions, tender milestones and risks.

Skills

Frameworks

Pre-contract

Account management

Work winning

NEC contracts

Job description

Circet Ireland & UK is hiring a Business Development Manager to lead framework development and pre-contract positioning in the UK electricity market, focusing on distribution and transmission networks. The role acts as a hub between clients and internal teams to prepare for market engagement, tenders, and awards.

You will work on opportunities across underground cables, overhead lines, substations and related infrastructure, coordinating internal readiness and ensuring client requirements are