Commercial Manager KBS Maritime KBS Maritime

1 month ago


Portsmouth Hampshire, United Kingdom KBS Maritime Full time

KBS Maritime delivers Asset Management, Facilities Management and Energy Solutions across maritime and defence environments. With parent companies KBR and BAE Systems the Joint Venture has the pedigree of two huge companies, but we have the ethos of a small business where our people are valued and empowered to succeed. It’s a great place to work and we bring opportunity to all our team.

What’s the role all about:

We have an opportunity to join our growing commercial team for a Commercial Manager to support the delivery of Hard FM and Alongside Services for Portsmouth Naval Base. This is a varied role responsible for managing a range of infrastructure projects, providing plenty of opportunity to develop your commercial career and contribute to the success of KBS Maritime.

The KBS Commercial Manager will:

  • Develop and negotiate commercial proposals for infrastructure projects for Portsmouth Naval Base
  • Provide commercial guidance and expertise to colleagues and delivery teams to ensure contractual obligations are met
  • Support delivery of projects through life, developing through life costs, monitoring and managing change requests, and ensuring contractual obligations have been met
  • Monitor contract performance, in respect of contractual KPIs and support representations for any relief events
  • Build and maintain good working relationships with internal functional areas, the customer and external stakeholders
  • Participate in risk reviews, provide mitigation advice and ensure issues arising are resolved

Your key experience will be:

  • 5 years+ experience operating in a similar Commercial role
  • Knowledge and experience of UK Defence industry Terms & Conditions
  • Experience of managing infrastructure projects is desirable

You’ll need to show the following behaviours: e.g.

  • Flexibility
  • Collaboration
  • Positive Communication
  • Listening
  • Openness
  • Stakeholder management
  • Challenging the Status quo & solving problems

Your key competencies will be:

  • Strong commercial acumen and financial awareness
  • Knowledge of UK Defence terms and conditions, including DEFCONs
  • Good interpersonal skills, capable of working independently and collaboratively as part of a wider team
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills including influencing, report writing and presentation skills
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • A can-do attitude

The job description aims to describe the role and the kind of person we are looking for, but we understand not everyone is a perfect match to a job description, so if you think you can do the job, please apply. We welcome applications from disadvantaged communities, service veterans and military spouses

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