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AWE is recruiting a Senior Contract Governance Manager to develop and implement infrastructure contracts, frameworks and collaboration agreements, and to provide advice and guidance on contract management, ensuring the objectives of AWE are met in contract and spirit. Salary:from 63,000 to 80,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience) Location:RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, withfree onsite parking . Plan to relocate to Green Park (Reading) from Oct 2025. Working pattern:AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will considerflexible working requestsso that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application. Let us introduce the role As the Senior Contracts Governance Manager, you will be developing and implementing contracting policy, boilerplate templates, frameworks for contract management planning and keep up to date on overarching governance. You will also work with stakeholders across commercial, including complex construction contracts, providing advice and guidance on contract management. Who are we looking for? We are ideally seeking individuals with experience in public sector procurement / contract management, who have public procurement regulations knowledge. You will have an understanding of the end-to-end procurement process, including pre and post contract, and experienced NEC practitioner with ideally experience in CEMAR to manage contracts. To ensure success as a Senior Contract Governance Manager, you should have previous experience defining NEC 4 and/or CCS contract terms. Represent AWE across MOD and Government on the Cross Government Construction Commercial Working Group Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following: NEC accreditation or experience.CCS contract experience preferable.Experience in business governance and public sector governance.Experience in scoping deliverables.Experience in contract variation management.Experience in budgetary control.Some reasons we think you'll love it here: AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include: 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.Market leading contributory pension scheme(we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).Family friendly policies:Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.Opportunities forProfessional Career Developmentincluding funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.Employee Assistance Programmeand Occupational Health Services.Life Assurance(4 x annual salary).Discounts- access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.Special Leave Policyincluding paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.Hybrid working is available for this role on an informal, non-contractual basis. Typically 2 days onsite per week. #LI-RS #LI-HybridTPBN1_UKTJ