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It works closely with business stakeholders, Legal and Procurement to manage risk, supplier performance, spend and contractual obligations.\nYou will\nLead the development, negotiation, renewal and variation of commercial agreements.\nManage effective engagement between business stakeholders, Legal and Procurement.\nDrive supplier, partner and customer contractual performance and compliance.\nMaintain clear visibility and control of contract spend, risk, governance and expiry.\nOwn and govern the end-to-end commercial contract portfolio\nYou have:\nStrong commercial and contract management capability, with the ability to balance commercial value, risk and compliance.\nAbility to develop, negotiate and manage complex customer, supplier and partner agreements.\nExcellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across senior business stakeholders, Legal and Procurement.\nStrong governance and organisational skills, with clear oversight of contract spend, renewals, due diligence and contractual obligations.\nAbility to work collaboratively across Business Energy and wider ECS teams while taking clear ownership and driving outcomes.\nAbout SSE\nSSE’s purpose is to be restless every day until we make electricity clean, affordable and available for all. 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