Assistant Commercial Specialist

2 weeks ago

Leicester, United Kingdom Cadent Gas Full time

**Assistant Commercial Specialist**

**Base Location - Leicester - Hybrid**

**Role Type - Permanent**

**£30,962 - £36,426 depending on skills and experience**

Here at Cadent we’re at the start of an exciting journey of transformation, growth and evolution. We’re new but we’re 200 years old. (You might have known us as part of National Grid but now we’ve transformed ourselves to Cadent). We’re the UK’s largest gas network connecting and keeping energy flowing to our customer’s 12 million homes and businesses across the UK.

We’re proud of our story so far and we’re super powered up about what our future holds. That’s where you come in Join us as an Assistant Commercial Specialist** **and start a transformation journey adding real purpose and direction to your career and feel genuinely proud about what you do.

**About the Role**

To support commercial and cost management activities across our internal operations and / or collaborative operations with Contractors to ensure costs are managed, controlled and reported appropriately. Supporting investment decisions / works and driving value through contract and commercial arrangements.

**Key Accountabilities**

Alongside the above you’ll be responsible for:

- Supporting the provision of cost and commercial control across our operations
- Carrying out cost reporting to deliver comprehensive information on internal and / or Contractor performance and value
- Using contractual cost measures and targets for Contractor activities to conduct continuous forecasting and monitoring
- Ensuring costs are managed through reporting, communication and management processes
- Ensuring unit costs are managed through reporting, communication and management processes
- Auditing and investigating internal activities and / or Contractor activities when required in order to provide assurance and demonstrate that regulatory reporting is underpinned by effective cost control
- Ensuring payments and claims are within contract terms
- Providing challenge to claims for compensation events based on quantitative analysis
- Ensuring variations to budget are identified, reported and addressed / rectified
- Assessing the scope and nature of additional or one-off work or variations
- Supporting the costing of works and / or challenging costings / price from Contractors
- Providing costing / pricing options based on scope parameters
- Supporting benchmarking activities to ensure Cadent’s arrangements and Contractor costs remain competitive

**About You**

You will possess the following skills, knowledge and qualifications:

- Educated to Degree or equivalent in a commercial discipline and relevant commercial/contract experience (or equivalent level of experience)
- Knowledge of unit cost / commercial principles and methodologies
- Cost modelling skills
- Auditing skills
- Understanding of key commercial, regulatory and economic drivers
- Ability to interpret and analyse financial information
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, negotiate and work collaboratively, engaging and developing value-adding relationships with a wide range of audiences at all levels (internal and external)
- A track record of delivering high quality outputs on time against demanding timescales
- Excellent team working skills, and a proactive approach to problem solving

**Benefits**
At Cadent we’ve got a whole host of standard and flexible benefits. You’ll get 25 days holiday + statutory days with the option to buy/sell also, a generous pension plan as well as the opportunity to earn bonus. Flexible benefits include: cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car, insurance and healthcare packages plus access to our Occupational Health services.

**Diversity and Inclusion**

We want our employees to achieve a work life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it.

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- Be part of something big. Help shape the future of gas for generations to come_
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