Head of Commercial

2 months ago


Coventry, United Kingdom Cadent Gas Full time

**Head of Commercial - Capital Delivery**

**Contract Type: Permanent**

**Location: Hybrid working with a travel across our networks**

**Salary: £75,000-£85,000 depending on experience**

At Cadent we’re excited to be part of the future of UK energy We’ve got a clear roadmap that will both drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving their net zero target by 2050.

We’re making a difference through innovation and new ways of working. Together we’re shaping/creating a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers who we put at the heart of everything we do.

**About The Role**

As Head of Commercial you will be accountable for managing the overall contracts portfolio within Cadent's network.

Below is a list of the general requirements of the role;
- Accountable for managing the overall portfolio of contracts within the COO function
- Seeks win-win outcomes by establishing and working towards common goals
- Ensuring that that the overall capability and capacity of the function is appropriate to deliver the immediate and long-term business plan and organisation goals
- Promoting a positive safety culture through visible proactive, consistent and influential behaviours
- Lead and manage all aspects of your team including people, processes and systems
- Calculates the impact of their actions or words and seeks to influence and engage collaboratively
- Adapts their approach to suit the audience, anticipating and preparing for their reaction
- Ensure company values are understood and upheld and those high standards of safety, engagement and wellbeing are engendered
- Proactively looks forward beyond “in year” to ensure the maximisation of opportunities through being flexible and agile in changing markets and internal demands
- Create forecasting models, assess risk and ensure all activities comply with regulations and company policy
- Manage and positively develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders through the professionalism, reliability and consistency of actions
- Design and deliver diversity and inclusion approaches which create a shared purpose within the organisation

**Key Accountabilities**
- Accountability of all Commercial contract management across our operational business areas
- Driving commercial value through all operational business areas supporting the efficient, effective and agile delivery of our business plans
- Leading the Contract management teams who are aligned to business areas and ensuring that best practice, innovation and efficiency rationale is applied consistently
- Best utilising the existing skills which exists within our teams, developing improved core competencies within our team and creating a high performing and effective Commercial Contract Management Approach
- Positively engage with our supply chain partners to create “win - win” solutions and aligned objectives which deliver our business plan
- Responsible for reducing total operational costs, improving supplier resilience, building relationships to develop a more informed view of our supply chain partners, reviewing procurement arrangements frequently to ensure that they are effective and meeting current requirements
- Working closely with central procurement team to ensure that all procurement processes are commercially informed, operationally endorsed and compliant with EU Procurement regulations
- Reporting to the Director of Commercial, the Head of Commercial Contract Management will be directly responsible for the strategic oversight of all our commercial contract activity and our need to improve contract management controls through robust and effective management information
- Ensure that contract management disciplines are agile develop future contracting strategies
- Ensuring that we have a current data set of all existing frameworks, who is active within them, what volume / type of activity is undertaken with each supply chain partner within them and most importantly a data driven assessment of performance and, in particular, contract management performance in line with contractual KPI or equivalent measures
- Working in collaboration with central procurement to ensure that operational and commercial input is supporting our overarching procurement plan
- Maintaining a view of works programmes and required activity with our operational business areas and ensuring that our operational frameworks are appropriate to meet those requirements
- Advising, supporting and remediating any system and process requirements to support the effective delivery of the role
- Engaging collaboratively with many internal stakeholders to influence procurement activity
- Develop a supplier database which allows us to build upon our supply chain partner relationships for mutual benefit; develop a view of supply chain partner resilience, criticality and performance
- Move us to be industry leading on supply chain contract management
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