Senior Contract Development Manager
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 7, 2026.
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 / week
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 depending on experience
Location: Leeds
WFH policy: Employees are required to attend the office 2 days/week
Flexible working: Variety of flexible work patterns subject to line manager discretion e.g. Compressed 9-day fortnight.
Reports to: Lead Commercial Manager / Head of Commercial Development
Deadline Note: We reserve the right to close the advert before the advertised deadline if there are a high volume of applications.
Role Summary:
The Senior Contract Development Manager is a senior specialist commercial role with ownership of defined contract development workstreams across one or more assigned low-carbon energy schemes. The work spans the full arc of contract design: from developing and leading LCCC's positions at Heads of Terms through to full contract design, covering risk allocation, payment mechanics, contractual triggers, revenue adjustment mechanisms, termination provisions and change in law arrangements. The output is commercial architecture that is investable and bankable, that withstands government and legal scrutiny, and that is genuinely deliverable by LCCC as counterparty over the life of the scheme.
LCCC occupies a distinctive position in the UK energy landscape. As the recognised counterparty for new low-carbon schemes, it advises government and works alongside its external legal and technical advisers on how contracts should be structured - from the inside, as the organisation that will live with those contracts for their duration. The Senior Contract Development Manager is central to that advisory function, bringing deep commercial expertise to scheme design from Heads of Terms through to execution, and ensuring that what is drafted by government lawyers accurately reflects LCCC's commercial analysis and operational capability.
Where schemes are live, the Senior Contract Development Manager takes responsibility for enabling their effective delivery, ensuring counterparties are supported to meet their contractual obligations and that low-carbon projects reach their potential.
This is not a typical commercial management role. Performance is not measured against a commercial bottom line, but against LCCC's two guiding principles: maintaining investor confidence in low-carbon schemes, and minimising cost to consumers whilst enabling the delivery of low-carbon projects.