Senior Commercial Manager

3 weeks ago


Brighton, United Kingdom Adecco Full time

Senior Commercial Manager
Hybrid working with site visits to Falmer 2/3 days per week as required
37 hours per week
Around £70,800 depending on experience
Vehicle package: £400 monthly cash allowance
This is an exciting opportunity to join us as a Senior Commercial Manager within our Water for Life Hampshire programme. Your role will be instrumental in developing & implementing robust and effective Procurement and Commercial strategies to ensure our supplychain is procured and managed efficiently and in line with relevant regulations to deliver maximum value through the Supply Chain for Southern Water and our customers.
As the Senior Commercial Manager, you will lead a team of commercial experts who will work with the procurement team to procure high value contracts. Following the procurement, you will manage the contracts, acting as an advisor and trusted expert to our specifiedbusiness directorates.
Your key deliverables will be developing the commercial strategy for the procurements and executing pre and post-contract commercial processes and procedures.
In the role you will ensure quality assured commercial management and you will manage associated commercial activity to achieve value creation and minimise total cost of ownership for Southern Water. You will be setting, defining, and implementing strategiesand tactics; managing conflict resolution, using your ability to influence at all levels.
This is a great opening to be part of a major infrastructure development project in the South East over the next 5-7 years with an exposure to work with senior leaders including members of the executive leadership team. You will be empowered in this leadershiprole with responsibility for developing and implementing the commercial strategies for major projects.
Your primary scope will be:
Implementation and delivery of commercial management strategies, as agreed with the Water for Life Hampshire Procurement and Commercial programme lead.
Leading and managing a team of Commercial Managers, ensuring best practices and techniques are adhered to, driving maximum value and maintaining compliance with governance framework
Providing leadership, professional oversight and direction to the team to support the delivery of a full range of commercial/cost management services, including commercial advisory and assurance
Utilising insight and analysis of market trends and cost drivers in categories and subcategories to identify saving opportunities; feed into purchasing category strategies to optimise value management
You will be:
An inspiring leader with an in-depth commercial experience and gathering information from multiple stakeholders and analysing overall commercial performance, including the tracking of variations and resolution of commercial risks and issues
In depth knowledge of contract forms (NEC3, I Chem E and ICE) and experience of managing contract drafting, terms and conditions, project lifecycles and commercial model
Continuously driving improvement into commercial processes and procedures and supporting transformation activities
Demonstrating experience of undertaking supply chain reviews, facilitating workshops and working with suppliers and internal stakeholders.
With a Bachelor's degree (or similar) in Quantity Surveying or a relevant discipline, you will be an excellent leader with the ability to lead a team of experienced commercial professionals with focus and motivation to reach individual and overall team objectives.Solid experience of commercial management experience, preferably in a water or utilities industry with Significant experience of Cost Management and/or Quantity Surveying for large projects and framework arrangements. It will be an added advantage if you areprofessionally qualified with full membership in MRICS or similar.



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