Contract Manager - AWE Water Services

• Opportunity to lead a strategically important account within a highly regulated and nationally significant environment.
• Direct engagement with senior client stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
• Responsibility for shaping account strategy, performance, governance and future development opportunities.
• Exposure to major infrastructure, utilities and asset management programmes.
• Career development opportunities within one of the UK's leading facilities management businesses.

At Mitie, we're delivering critical infrastructure services in some of the UK's most complex and highly regulated environments. We are looking for an experienced Contract Manager to lead the day-to-day management of the AWE Water Services account, acting as the primary relationship lead between AWE, Mitie, Marlowe Engineering, Severn Trent Services and the wider supply chain.

This is a high-profile leadership role responsible for ensuring safe, secure and resilient service delivery across operations, maintenance, projects, upgrades, commercial management and governance. You'll be the trusted interface for the customer, driving performance, collaboration and continuous improvement across a multi-party delivery model.

• Act as the principal day-to-day contact for AWE, building trusted relationships with key stakeholders and ensuring a coordinated, responsive and transparent service.
• Lead account governance, performance management and reporting, ensuring contractual obligations, KPIs, SLAs and client expectations are achieved.
• Coordinate operational, technical, project, commercial and support functions across Mitie, Marlowe Engineering, Severn Trent Services and specialist delivery partners.
• Maintain oversight of contractual plans, risk registers, change control processes and improvement initiatives, ensuring risks and opportunities are effectively managed.
• Drive continuous improvement, sustainability, resilience and innovation programmes that deliver measurable benefits to both the client and the contract.

Location: Reading AWE Estate (Travel Across Sites Required)
Hours: Full Time, Permanent

• A confident and credible leader who can influence stakeholders across multiple organisations and functions.
• Strong relationship-building skills with the ability to navigate complex customer environments.
• Experience leading delivery through influence rather than direct authority.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong organisational capability with the ability to manage competing priorities across a complex account.
• A proactive and improvement-focused mindset with a passion for delivering outstanding client outcomes.

This role will require the successful candidate to obtain and maintain appropriate AWE security clearance and site access authorisations. A full UK driving licence is required, along with the ability to travel across the AWE estate and partner locations.

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a critical customer relationship, leading a complex integrated service that directly supports nationally important infrastructure. You'll play a key role in maintaining client confidence, protecting contract value, driving performance and creating a culture of collaboration across a diverse delivery network.

There's a place for you at Mitie. Join us today.