Principal Commercial Business Partner

6 months ago


Reading, United Kingdom AWE Full time

What if you could work with remarkable people on extraordinary things? What if the end result was something a little bit special? What if your role was mission critical?

For nearly 70 years, AWE has been at the forefront of nuclear weapons research and development. We have a critical mission: to provide the warheads for the UK’s ultimate deterrent - Trident. We also use our unique skills to provide wider UK government with counter-terrorism and nuclear threat reduction solutions.

It takes a special sort of person to work at AWE. What if that person was you?

AWE is currently recruiting for a Principal Commercial Business Partner to join our growing team.

As a Principal Business Partner, you will be a commercial leader, providing expertise and professional insight in to one of the UK’s largest and most strategic infrastructure investments. In collaboration with industry & government, you will be part of the programme leadership team to deliver a multi-billion-pound investment programme over the next 15 years.

**Salary**: from £57,500 to £85,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

Location: Reading / Winnersh / Basingstoke area

As part of our People Promise, AWE (one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK) has a range of benefits to suit you. These include:

- Time to recharge your batteries with 270 hours of annual leave (plus every other Friday off work)
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
- Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services
- A generous defined contribution Group Personal Pension (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your own contribution)
- Life Assurance
- Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending
- Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring for your family
- A host of voluntary & core benefits to suit your health and wellbeing - more information available on our careers site
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- This job role is suitable for hybrid working, which is an informal, non-contractual and voluntary arrangement, blending a balance of attendance in the workplace (your permanent duty station) and working from home as a personal choice. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post._

As Principal Commercial Business Partner, you will lead the strategic alignment between the commercial function and its principal stakeholders including project teams, industry and government. You will be the commercial functions’ primary interface to capture project teams requirements and work with commercial delivery experts to translate requirements into credible route to market solutions, presenting status reports to project boards. You will work with industry and government stakeholders to represent AWE at conferences and wider networking activities, fostering a collaborative industry and government delivery strategy, that enables AWE to influence UK commercial policy and embed industry best practice.

You will lead a team of stakeholder and commercial experts, to enable AWE to develop an effective Demand Plan for future procurements and a Strategic Engagement Plan to enable business partnerships. The role will enable the wider government procurement agenda through both government and industry engagement, and you will actively ensure commercial solutions are aligned to business requirements.

To be successful in this role you would need to be an expert communicator and team leader with an in-depth knowledge of strategic stakeholder management strategies. You will have high emotional intelligence, with the ability to influence senior leaders both internally and externally to deploy promoted commercial strategies and polices. You will have experience in delivering within complex programmes and have keen procurement insight, with ability to interrogate data, undertake strategic option analysis and execute deployment strategies through matrix teams.

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