Job Description Job Title - IT and Digital Contract Lead - Submarines Location: Derby Working Pattern: Full Time / Permanent Position Summary An exciting opportunity has arisen for IT and Digital Contract Lead – Submarines. This role involves the delivery and day-to-day management of IT contracts, collaborating across the IT and Digital teams and with the procurement/supply chain teams to align with the company's strategic goals and deliver optimal value. What you will be doing Contract Management: Oversee the day-to-day management of IT and Digital contracts, focusing on performance metrics, reporting, and ensuring that all systems meet performance standards. Recommend changes to contracts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of their delivery. Cost Reduction: Collaborate with procurement/supply chain and IT and Digital to identify and drive cost-saving initiatives, ensuring that IT contracts deliver maximum value. Technical Strategy: Contribute to the development of technical requirements for future IT and Digital contracts, ensuring that risks and opportunities are aligned with the company's IT and Digital strategy. Provide clear Statements of Requirements to the Supply Chain team for strategy creation and refresh. Relationship Management: Manage day-to-day supplier relationships through Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), ensuring that contracts are delivered effectively and efficiently. Innovation Roadmaps: Utilising IT and Digital contracts to drive and deliver innovation and contributing to the overall IT and Digital strategy. Market Intelligence: Working with solution architects/suppliers and procurement to understand risk and opportunities. Contract Compliance: Ensuring technical compliance to the IT and Digital Contracts and collaborating the Procurement/Supply Chain teams where non-compliance is found. Dispute Resolution: Manage non-financial disputes and support the gathering of evidence for financial disputes, working closely with the Procurement/Supply Chain teams to resolve issues. Position Qualifications: At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles and for this role we are looking for someone with: Demonstrable IT management experience and delivery of results in a regional role, operating within a large multi-national and global organisation Proven and extensive experience in stakeholder management at senior level (with an operational and / or service delivery bias) Exposure / experience of a shared services operating model / organisation. ITIL4 or similar qualification preferred. Exceptional influencing skills and able to operate a demanding service orientated organisation. Supplier Management (large value 3rd party supplier) experience / exposure Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role. We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential. To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold a minimum of an Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if the individual does not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the Business conducts and the protection of certain assets a person has to be a UK national or in MoD approved cases a Dual National from a non ITAR country. Closing Date: 11th November 2026 People Leader – Russell Mason Grade: NGS 7-10 For further information, please contact: Gauri Sood Job Category Information Technology Posting Date 28 Oct 2026; 00:10 Posting End Date 11 Nov 2026 Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs.

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