Contracts Manager

Join us in this role where you’ll be the Contracts Manager for Project Delivery and have responsibility for managing the end-to-end commercial contract cycle on projects assigned to you.

 

Welcome to Project Delivery
You’ll be part of Project Delivery where you, together with your colleagues, will share knowledge and experiences to develop both personally and professionally in a positive work culture and to bring projects from development through the construction phase and handover to Operations.

 

You’ll play an important role in:

  • responsibility for tender preparation, issue and evaluation, contract negotiation, contract management, and claims phases of multi-million-euro/pound business-critical contracts
  • leading the schedule, specification, and technical aspects of the tender, as well as supporting the commercial elements with the wider team
  • liaising with the legal and project teams to determine the most appropriate contract form while evaluating the technical and commercial aspects of tender submissions
  • understanding wider project contract management activities and ensuring that interfaces between packages of work are optimised to the maximum benefit
  • providing support to site-based teams in processing contractual claims and determination in accordance with contract terms and conditions
  • developing and maintaining relationships with key suppliers and contractors while keeping up to date with market and technology trends.

 

To succeed in the role, you:

  • have a strong cultural belief in safety and extensive project or contracts management experience in large capital projects in the renewable sector
  • have strong interpersonal skills as well as good negotiation skills
  • possess in-depth knowledge of contracts and contract law in Ireland and the UK - FIDIC form of contract in particular
  • have experience with management of tender process from preparation and issuing of tender packages, managing tender process through to contract negotiations, and tender award in CBoP, EBoP, EPC and TSA
  • have the ability to work with multidisciplinary project stakeholders incl. the technical and legal fields
  • are driven to meet deliverables on target, with attention to detail and understand the technical and regulatory requirements to deliver onshore renewable projects.

 

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

 

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

 

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

 

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

 

 

About the job

Application deadline:  24 February 2026
Location: 

Cork, IE Edinburgh, GB

Field of work:  Procurement
Employment type:  Permanent
Work hours:  Full-time
Workplace:  Hybrid (office and home-working)

Pre-employment screening
All UK-based positions will be subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening, further details will be given at offer stage.

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted

- We provide countries, companies, and communities with sustainable, reliable, and cost-competitive energy solutions, including offshore and onshore wind, solar PV, and energy storage.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We built the world’s first offshore wind farm, Vindeby in Denmark, in 1991, and completed the world’s largest, Hornsea 2 in the UK, in 2022.

- We were founded in Denmark in 2006 and now have approximately 8,000 employees, working in 15 countries and counting. 

 

An inclusive team

At Ørsted, we strive to be an inclusive workplace where you’re respected for who you are, valued for the unique perspectives you bring, and rewarded fairly for what you achieve. We want all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, no matter their age, race, ethnicity, place of birth, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.