Senior Commercial Contracts Manager - 12 months fixed-term

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

We are seeking an ambitious professional with a solid commercial background ideally within the energy sector, to join a fast-growing area at Centrica. This position is a 12 month fixed-term contract role and is based in either Salford or Windsor with a hybrid working arrangement. This role requires an energetic and resilient leader who can drive forward optimal commercial solutions tailored to client needs. In this role, you’ll leverage your expertise in complex commercial structures and creative problem-solving to ensure a quick progression from deal qualification to closure. As a vital Senior Commercial Manager, you will contribute to strategy within the commercial team and the broader business, as well as confidently represent the organization in executive client meetings. If you’re a driven individual with and ready to thrive in a dynamic commercial environment, we’d love to hear from you!

Key accountabilities

• Working with multiple industry standard and bespoke contract structures: PPAs, EPCs and service agreements

• Negotiate and close contracts with a strong working knowledge of key contractual provisions, performance conditions, commercial risk and mitigations

• Utilising standard internal processes across functions to reduce closure time for opportunities and advance the deal cycle from qualification to commercial close

• Adherence to commercial contract best practice, ethical standards, laws and regulations

• Broad energy project development skills with an understanding of the application of regulatory, compliance, consents and connections requirements to specific projects

• Continuous improvement, proactively suggesting improved ways of working within the team and the wider Centrica Business Solutions organisation

• Management of multi-technology projects

• Building relationships at executive level to communicate complex messages to internal and external stakeholders

• Leading multi-functional teams to deliver complex commercial deals to challenging timescales

• Leadership, mentoring of less experienced members of the commercial team

Key requirements

• Energy industry knowledge an advantage

• Understanding of PPA/EPC/industry and standard contract structures desirable

• Degree qualified desirable but not essential in a business, economics, commercial law or financial discipline

• Strong negotiation skills

Why join?

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows;

• Competitive salary and bonus potential

• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap

• Pension scheme

• Company Funded Healthcare Plan

• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days

• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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