Commercial Management Officer

**Contract type**:Permanent
**Location**:East Midlands, depots in Leicester, Burton, Kirkby-in-Ashfield and Coventry - hybrid working available
**Salary**:£34,938 - £41,103 depending on skills and experience

**About the Role**
As the Commercial Management Officer you will support commercial and cost management activities across our internal operations and collaborative operations with Contractors to ensure costs are managed, controlled and reported appropriately, supporting investment decisions and driving value through contract and commercial arrangements.
Key accountabilities of this role will include:

- Carrying out cost reporting to deliver comprehensive information on internal and 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
- Auditing and investigating internal activities and Contractor activities when required in order to provide assurance and demonstrate that regulatory reporting is underpinned by effective cost control
- Providing challenge to claims for compensation events based on quantitative analysis
- Ensuring variations to budget are identified, reported and addressed
- Assessing the scope and nature of additional or one-off work or variations
- Supporting the costing of works and benchmarking activities to ensure Cadent’s arrangements and Contractor costs remain competitive
- Providing procurement and tender support via Cadent’s systems

**About You**
- Educated to Degree or equivalent in a commercial discipline or relevant commercial/contract experience
- Knowledge of unit cost / commercial principles and methodologies
- Cost modelling skills and auditing
- 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
- The ability to deliver high quality outputs on time against demanding timescales
- Excellent team working skills, and a proactive approach to problem solving

**What’s In It For You**
Here at Cadent, we are committed to supporting our employees to get the best out of themselves. For this role in particular we can offer:

- Funding and support towards completing qualifications
- Ample opportunity for progression within the business
- Mentoring and guidance opportunities

**Benefits**
We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being. These include:

- Annual bonus
- Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 18% of salary (i.e., employee contributions of up to 6%, double matched by a Cadent contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
- Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development
- Strong focus on supporting you as an individual including:

- hybrid working (Where role permits)
- flexible working
- strong commitments to ED&I
- generous family provision policies
- Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance, and healthcare packages, plus much more
- My Offers membership card - offering discounts and savings from hundreds of retailers
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- Free gym access at the Ansty office, as well as a ‘Gympass’ scheme providing free or heavily subsidised local gym memberships

We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it. Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours, remote working, flexible start/finish times, or compressed hours, and we will be more than happy to explore what’s possible for the role.

**About us**
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 its net zero targets 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 whom we put at the heart of everything we do.

**Diversity and Inclusion**
Don’t meet every single requirement listed?
We place great importance on equity, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our employee communities Women in Cadent, Pride at Work (LGBTQ+), Embrace (ethnicity and religion), Thrive (disability) and the Cadent Military Community can’t wait to welcome you

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