Senior Commercial Manager

3 weeks ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Turner & Townsend Full time
Job Title: Senior Commercial Manager

We are seeking an experienced Senior Commercial Manager to join our Defence Team in the UK. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for delivering commercial excellence and supporting our clients in delivering outcomes in disciplines such as sourcing and procurement, contract management, supply chain management, commercial strategy development and execution, business analysis and problem solving, organisational design, business transformation and change, tendering processes and analysis, stakeholder management.

About the Role:
  • Conducting development and commercial assurance of business cases, commercial strategies, and contracting approaches, to ensure that sound commercial practices are being applied.
  • Examining risks to achieving project success and implementing appropriate mitigations.
  • Managing complex, business critical or strategically important negotiations.
  • Development and implementation of effective contract and supplier management strategies, to extract maximum value from contracts, motivate performance and drive innovation.
  • Proactive monitoring and contract management, to deliver enduring thru-life value-for-money solutions. Providing timely feedback on supplier performance issues, successes, and contractual risk to senior project leaders.
  • Administering contracts, identifying performance trends and taking appropriate action, evaluating non-conformance, dispute resolution, and applying enforcement tools, KPI's and remedies to secure consideration and compensation as appropriate.
Requirements:
  • Commercial experience of procurement, contract management or contract placement (sourcing), in single source and competitive markets, preferably within Defence.
  • Ability to identify the most suitable commercial approach to a given circumstance, including assessing the potential trade-offs and the level of risk mitigation required to achieve the best outcome.
  • Understanding and applying programme, portfolio and project management tools.
  • Taking ownership of decisions at tender evaluation stage and applying commercial expertise and judgement accordingly.
  • Understanding and applying tools to monitor supplier performance including Earned Value Management, cost analysis, and contract related management information systems.
  • Experience leading teams and providing strategic direction.
  • The role has responsibility for dealing regularly with clients / customers on complex, controversial and contentious issues. The role will typically be able to chair internal and external meetings involving senior stakeholders.
  • Supplier Relationship Management and Category Management.
Desirable Experience:
  • A background in Government Procurement processes, such as Single Source and Competitive.
  • Defence and Security Public Contracting Regulations (DSPCR) and Public Contract Regulations (PCR).
  • New Engineering Contract (NEC), FIDIC and/or Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) contract knowledge and experience.
Qualifications:
  • A Degree (or equivalent professional qualification(s)) in Commercial Management, Business, Law Project Management, or a similar relevant discipline.
  • Hold or are working towards CIPS level 4.

Must have or be able to attain UK MoD Security Clearance



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