Job Description

Imagine a future where you play a pivotal role in shaping our contract management landscape, driving commercial excellence across our UK offshore wind operations

Join us in this role, where you'll take ownership of live supplier contracts from demand planning through to close-out. You'll proactively manage contractual and commercial risks, oversee claims and variations, and use performance insights to drive supplier accountability and deliver safe, reliable and value-adding outcomes

Welcome to Generation Procurement

You'll become part of the UK Contract Management team within Generation Procurement. Here, we work across regions to maximise value from our operational offshore wind portfolio in the UK through strong contract management, commercial insight, and close collaboration with technical and operational experts. We succeed through teamwork, knowledge sharing, and a continuous focus on improving how we work.

As a team, we value a positive and open mindset, being team players, being ambitious, and driving continuous improvement with a high focus on adding value.

You’ll play an important role in:

• developing strong and sustainable relationships with suppliers and internal colleagues, working towards mutual success through the enablement of contractual obligations.
• providing clear contractual advice and recommendations to internal stakeholders
• proactively managing risk and seeking commercial optimisation opportunities from our contracts
• managing the rights, KPI’s, obligations and performance metrics in our contracts, supporting with optimisation of contract strategy and risk mitigation
• end to end management and facilitation of our contracts incl. pipeline demand, scope facilitation, commercial levers, performance reviews, disputes, negotiations and contract close out
• collaborating across the Commercial and Operational teams to optimise asset profitability and value creation (EBITDA and NPV).
• contributing to the development of contract management frameworks, governance, tools, and best practices across the organisation
• mentoring colleagues and promoting a culture of collaboration, inclusion, integrity, and safety.

To succeed in the role, you:

• have substantial experience in contract management, claims management, commercial negotiations, or a similar discipline with transferable skills.
• possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a demonstrable track record of providing evidence-based assessments and recommendations to internal and external stakeholders
• have commercial and operational insight, negotiation experience and an understanding of the levers for improving the financial performance of assets through contractual levers
• have proven supplier relationship management skills, enabling you to communicate professionally with key business partners whilst maintaining contractual and business objectives
• have a structured and analytical approach to your work, with a keen eye for detail enabling you to manoeuvre and deliver business-critical, value adding results.
• excel in relationship management, building and maintaining strong partnerships coupled with strong communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills for managing internal and external stakeholders across a wide breadth of activities in relation to contract management.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Join a global leader in renewable energy
Ørsted is a growing green energy major and global leader in climate action. With us you’ll play a part in driving change towards a green energy future. You’ll grow your talent in a fast-paced and high-growth industry where you have plenty of opportunities to learn and develop through challenging assignments and industry-leading experts. Here, you can perform in a friendly work environment based on trust, respect, and collaboration.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accomodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country.

Position salary range:

59,200.00- 88,800.00 + pension + benefits

Pre-employment screening:

All offers of employment in the UK are conditional on successful completion of a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check. Further details will be given at offer stage.