Head of Contract & Supplier Management - Change, Governance & Planning

Head of Contract & Supplier Management - Change, Governance & Planning / Hybrid Location: Manchester or London

Lead transformation, strengthen governance, and shape how Smart DCC delivers value through its most critical contracts and suppliers. This is a senior leadership role where you’ll bring clarity, confidence, and commercial rigour to a complex, regulated environment—while setting the standards for how Contract & Supplier Management operates.

About the DCC

We’re powering Britain’s smarter, greener future. Today. Tomorrow. Together.

Today, we’re deeply invested in building a resilient, sustainable smart energy network that drives transformation. Our success is driven by curiosity, ambition, and tenacity.

Tomorrow, we see vast opportunities for growth and development, contributing to decarbonisation and the Net Zero mission. We’ll continually develop Smart DCC, to fulfil our obligations to consumers, and achieve even more with our customers, partners, and each other. Join us and development opportunities range from talent programmes, academies and always on learning to exposure to senior stakeholders and industry experts, contributing to complex projects and constant support to drive your own development.

Together, we embrace change, unite in our shared passions and support each other. Working as one team and across our industry, we rise to the challenge to shape Smart DCC, and the future.

A career at Smart DCC means being part of something bigger – a dynamic organisation that’s not just helping transform energy but also shaping the future. We offer a unique, fulfilling environment where you can thrive today, develop for tomorrow, and achieve together.

How you will contribute to transforming the smart energy network and shaping the future.

As Head of Contract & Supplier Management – Change, Governance & Planning, you will play a pivotal role in setting direction and standards across the Contract & Supplier Management function. Reporting to the Director of Contract & Supplier Management and forming part of the Senior Commercial Leadership team, you will:

• Lead transformation across the Contract & Supplier Management function, improving processes, governance, consistency, and ways of working
• Own governance and assurance, ensuring robust frameworks, controls, and audit‑readiness aligned to regulatory and public‑sector standards
• Lead financial and resourcing planning for the function, supporting savings delivery and value‑for‑money outcomes across Design, Build, Run
• Provide high‑quality reporting and insight, enabling confident, data‑led decision‑making across senior leadership
• Act as a senior stakeholder partner, influencing leaders across Smart DCC, suppliers, and regulators to deliver effective outcomes

What you need to bring:

To succeed in this role, you’ll bring a strong blend of leadership, commercial acumen, and governance expertise. You’ll have:

• Proven senior leadership experience within Contract Management, Commercial, Governance, or a closely related function, ideally in a regulated or complex environment
• Strong commercial and financial capability, including budgets, forecasting, savings delivery, and spend governance
• Deep governance and assurance experience, with a track record of designing, embedding, and upholding robust frameworks and controls
• Exceptional stakeholder influence, with confidence engaging, challenging, and advising senior leaders and executive‑level stakeholders
• High analytical capability, with experience translating complex data into clear insights, reporting, and actionable improvement plans

While our mission is ambitious, we also prioritise balance offering flexibility and support to help you thrive both personally and professionally. At DCC we reward fairly and recognise fully because our continued success depends on our people.

We also offer a competitive 8 days per month hybrid work policy for most roles as well as competitive salaries with regular benchmarking, bonuses tied to personal and company performance. Our core benefits include pension, generous leave allowance, private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to you.

As a Disability Confident member, DCC is committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments, need a copy of this job advert in an alternative format, or have any other questions you’d like to ask before applying, please contact Stephanie.Owen@peregrineresourcing.com

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