Overview As NEC Project Services Manager, you will lead NEC4 contract management for major reservoir projects and guide commercial governance. You’ll own contract administration across Programme Delivery Partner arrangements, delivering risk control and value through structured governance. You will influence senior stakeholders and steer dispute avoidance while shaping a robust contract management strategy. This role places you at the center of two nationally significant reservoir programmes, enabling reliable water supply and environmental protection.
Pay / Benefits - salary circa 80k
- private health care
- life assurance up to 8x salary
- personal accident cover up to 5x salary
- double-matched pension (7% employee/14% employer)
- 26 days annual leave (plus-buy options)
Responsibilities - Lead NEC4 contract management for major programme delivery contracts
- Drive best-in-class contract administration and assurance
- Act as Service Manager overseeing change control, early warnings, and risk reduction
- Provide trusted commercial leadership to delivery teams and senior stakeholders
- Lead on dispute avoidance and contract resolution
- Shape and implement a contract management strategy and assurance framework
- Drive performance through governance, reporting, and data-led insights
- Champion collaboration across Programme Delivery Partner and wider supply chain
- Support programme boards and governance forums with contract expertise
- Challenge ways of working to unlock efficiencies, innovation, and outperformance
- Help define how major infrastructure programmes are delivered
Key requirements - Significant experience managing NEC4 contracts, ideally at programme level
- Experience in complex, matrixed infrastructure environments
- Strong commercial awareness with ability to challenge senior stakeholders
- Proven ability to manage change control, risk, and performance frameworks
- Experience with Programme Delivery Partners or similar delivery models
- Degree-level qualification in a relevant discipline (or equivalent experience)
- Ideally MRICS qualified (or working towards)
- NEC accreditation or similar professional development
- leadership
- influence
- stakeholder management
- NEC4 contract management
- contract governance and assurance
- change control and risk management
