Framework Manager

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• To identify the appropriate key contacts within stakeholder businesses and to build and maintain ongoing collaborative relationships with them to better drive interest and engagement with Assystem.
• Fully understand the strategy and operational parameters of each assigned Framework agreement and engage with the wider teams to ensure that all Framework requirements are understood correctly and being delivered to high quality standards and client expectations.
• Develop an understanding of the full Assystem capability, drawing on expertise within our business to advise clients on available solutions supporting Assystem’s strategy for growth.
• Support the bid team in tendering and positioning for future framework opportunities.
• Develop and ensure that sufficient and appropriate framework management controls are in place to enable effective delivery of proposals and profiles.
• Develop framework management tools to enable feedback, whilst monitoring both the activity spend on the Framework, client satisfaction and the delivery of value for money and savings.
• Ensure that all frameworks have been reviewed by Legal and that all contractual matters are understood correctly by the project team.
• Represent Assystem at a framework level, supplier’s reviews, and bidders’ forums.
• Participate in the refinement, and implementation of the business plan for the future of the Framework.
• Ensure that all projects in the assigned portfolio are set up and executed in a manner consistent with company expectations, policies, procedures and that all appropriate quality assurance (QA) requirements are in place
• Ensure that all projects are reviewed in a monthly project review or other agreed basis to identify current and anticipated problems and opportunities.
• Ensure that all projects in the Framework achieve or exceed their as-sold GM from each project.

Qualifications

Qualifications & Experience

• Curious, drives changes across the business through people, process, and culture 
• Able to manage in ambiguity and manage multiple priorities
• Able to flex approach and communication style to the situation/ and to meet different stakeholder requirements 
• Demonstrates energy and commitment to deliver
• Able to remain resilient and bounce back from setbacks  
• Questions and challenges others to get to the root cause of issues
• Looks for and delivers innovative solutions
• Is prepared to take calculated risks and learns from failure 
• Openly challenges poor practices or behaviours
• Demonstrates active listening, engagement, and collaboration and places customer needs at heart of actions 
• Builds strong internal and external relationships and networks
• Openly shares knowledge and ideas with others
• Collaborates with others to deliver effective solutions
• Takes accountability for delivering consistent high-quality outputs
• Leads self (and others if in management/leadership role) to make continuous improvements and add value
• Monitors, reviews and adjusts (if required) own and project performance

Additional Information

🌟 Join us at Assystem and be part of a global team delivering some of the most exciting and complex engineering projects in the world. This is your chance to shape the UK’s energy future while developing your expertise in a unique environment.

Benefits include:

🏡 Hybrid Working Opportunity
🕒 Flexible working hours
🛡️ Pension scheme (8% company contribution / 4% personal contribution)
🏖️ 25 days’ paid annual leave + bank holidays + option to buy or sell days
💼 Professional fees reimbursed
💰 Employee referral scheme
🤒 Competitive Sick Pay – Support when you need it
🏥 Income Protection & 3x Salary Death-in-Service Cover
💪 Free Digital Gym Access – Expert-led fitness classes
📞 24/7 Employee Support Line – Mental health, financial & legal help

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter!

Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future!

NOTICE TO CANDIDATES ON RECRUITMENT FRAUD - We are committed to safeguarding candidates from fraudulent activity associated with our recruitment process. Please note that we will never offer specialist CV writing services, request payment or ask for sensitive personal information during the recruitment process.

NOTICE TO CANDIDATES ON RECRUITMENT FRAUD - We are committed to safeguarding candidates from fraudulent activity associated with our recruitment process. Please note that we will never offer specialist CV writing services, request payment or ask for sensitive personal information during the recruitment process.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter !. Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.