Advert Close date: 4th July 2025

Purpose of Role: We are seeking a highly skilled, proactive, and experienced Supplier and Contract Delivery Manager to join our Marine Team (covering the sectors of Offshore Wind, Carbon Capture and Storage, Hydrogen, Nature, Transmission, Aggregates). This role will encompass a wide variety of activities across the full commercial lifecycle, including procurement, contract management, and budget control, to ensure we maximise value from our third-party contracts.

The successful candidate will lead and coordinate several complex and strategically important third-party contracts and frameworks, surveys, and commercial advisory services. Some of these commercial arrangements are new and require the establishment of new management processes. The successful candidate will act as the lead for all high-profile and high-value frameworks and contracts, ensuring that sector teams drive value from our external relationships and maintain consistency and compliance with our contractual obligations.

A key requirement for this role is to navigate a wide range of business challenges including supporting complex scope development and refinement, while managing a broad and diverse stakeholder group. This will ensure that our third-party relationships and contracts are fit for purpose and help Marine deliver its business objectives. It is important to be a self-starter and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy.

Main Accountabilities: 

• Contract Oversight: Manage multiple complex contracts, ensuring compliance,
  performance standards, and timely delivery. Conduct regular audits and reviews.
• Supplier Management: Oversee suppliers, ensuring effective communication and
  performance management. Develop strong relationships to ensure high-quality service delivery 
• Marine Contract Pipeline: Develop and manage the contract pipeline, forecast needs, identify potential suppliers, and streamline the contracting process 
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks associated with contracts and supplier performance. Develop risk management plans and contingency strategies 
• Budget Management: Monitor and manage contract-related budgets, track expenditures, and implement cost-saving measures
• Change Management: Oversee contract amendments, extensions, and terminations. Ensure all changes are documented and approved 
• Contract Closure Management: Ensure all contractual obligations are met, process final payments, and resolve outstanding issues. Conduct post-contract evaluations.
• Framework Management: Manage framework agreements, ensuring compliance and monitoring supplier performance
• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with a range of stakeholders to understand their procurement needs, meet contractual objectives and foster strong relationships across the organisation
• Reporting & Compliance: Present regular reports on contract performance and ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and policy requirements
• Procurement Support: Support the procurement process, provide guidance on procurement strategies, prepare documentation, and facilitate evaluation and selection, drawing public procurement knowledge and experience
• Project Management: Establishing and implementing new processes and tools to manage commercial and contractual arrangements
• Problem Solving: Analysing spend data across multiple sector teams, identifying opportunities for standardisation, cost efficiencies and optimisation

Most important skills based requirements:

• Previous experience (ideally 5 years+) in supplier and contract management/ procurement
• Experience of managing multiple contracts and resolving complex commercial and contractual issues
• A professional qualification, or working towards accreditation, e.g. CIPS, CIMA, ACA, CIPFA is preferable
• Knowledge or experience of public procurement including a working knowledge of public procurement, which could include the Procurement Act 2023
• Detail-oriented with a strong focus on accuracy
• A self-starter who can take initiative and work with a varied stakeholder group to deliver results
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong ethical standards and integrity
• Adaptability and resilience in a dynamic work environment
• Proven track record in engaging with suppliers and internal / external stakeholder to achieve set aims and objectives
• Strong negotiation and contract management skills
• Robust experience in risk management and compliance
• Exceptional communication skills

Our Offering / benefits:

As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.

Disability Disclaimer:

We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.

If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us on careers@thecrownestate.co.uk