Strategic Vendor Manager Digital

Strategic Vendor Manager - Digital

ScottsihPower HQ Glasgow (hybrid working)

Salary up to 82000 up to 20% bonus car allowance & family healthcare cover

Closing date - 1st of June 2026

Help us create a better future quicker

Were looking for aSenior Vendor Managerto join our Digital Transformation team and take ownership of our strategic contracts and commercial governance across a global supplier landscape. This is a key role responsible for ensuring our contracts are robust compliant and commercially sound while supporting the delivery of large-scale digital programmes and long-term business objectives.

What youll be doing

Youll own the end-to-end lifecycle management of high-value complex contracts from contract strategy and negotiation through to ongoing administration performance management and renewal. This includes leading contract renewals variations and new agreements ensuring terms are clear enforceable and aligned to ScottishPowersDigital Transformation department.

Acting as a subject-matter expert in contract management youll provide assurance across contractual frameworks policies and controls. Youll proactively identify and manage commercial risk ensuring obligations liabilities service levels and change mechanisms are clearly governed and consistently applied.

Youll work closely with legal procurement finance and delivery teams to ensureour ITcontracts support effective delivery while protecting ScottishPowers commercial interests. This will include advising stakeholders on contractual interpretation change control dispute resolution and escalation as well as supporting negotiations with strategic suppliers.

Youll also support the development of contract management maturity across the function embedding best practice improving consistency of approach and strengthening governance forums reporting and controls across the contract portfolio.

What youll bring

This role requires extensive experience in senior-level contract management ideally within complex multi-supplier orITenvironments. Youll bring strong commercial acumen a detailed understanding of contract law principles and proven experience managing high-value strategically important contracts.

Youll be confident negotiating with senior supplier stakeholders advising internal teams on contractual matters and ensuring compliance with policies governance and regulatory requirements. Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to balance commercial rigor with pragmatic delivery are essential.

Whats in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme well double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower we believe its the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your familys wellbeing save for your future and take personal steps for climate action our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world today and tomorrow. Thats why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave

• Holiday purchase perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave

• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme

• Payroll giving and charity matched funding

• Technology Vouchers save more and spread the cost of your technology purchases

• Count us in pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change

• Electric Vehicle Schemes to help you transition to green/clean driving

• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

• Options to purchase dental insurance private medical insurance health cash plan and annual health assessments

• Life Assurance (4x salary)

• Access to nudge financial wellbeing support

• Plus shopping leisure restaurant and gym discounts and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group one of the worlds largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future were at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over 6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals in a global organisation.

Inclusion diversity and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values they bring us together into a stronger more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours so whatever your background youll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities long term conditions mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support please reach out to .