Commerical Manager
| Posting date: | 25 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £55,000 to £59,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 August 2025 |
| Location: | Northwood, London, HA62XL |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Carbon60 |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | BBBH165355_1753450916 |
Summary
Role: Commercial Manager
Type: Permanent
Salary: Up to £59,000
Location: North West London
Start: ASAP
Job purpose
This role is responsible for delivering commercial activities within the Delivery teams. The role works alongside the supply chain and contractors within the development delivery teams, assuring and supporting their commercial activities to provide an independent view to Head of Commercial
Role of Directorate/Department
To support the delivery of the client's strategic goals by building value adding supply chains with sustainable commercial relationships. To do this we must: -
- Successfully achieve the award of all contracts required to deliver the construction, testing, commissioning and operation of the client in a fair, transparent, and non-discriminatory manner, by the agreed dates (as per Utilities Contract Regulations 2016);
- Provide commercial support and decision-making across all the clients contracts and manage those contracts to ensure that they deliver the strategic objectives of the project throughout the term of the agreement and deliver demonstrable value for money;
- Support the delivery of the client's strategic goals by building value adding supply chains with sustainable commercial relationships that deliver value and comply with the clients' obligations set out in the Development Agreement and any associated Undertakings and Assurances;
- Negotiate Commercial Agreements with third parties, coordinating interfaces and integrating across contracts and suppliers;
- Ensure that the client has the goods and services required by the organisation to guarantee success across each stage of the delivery lifecycle.
Accountabilities
- To be responsible for developing commercial works information, reviewing works information from other functions and drafting contract documents to ensure consistency and alignment with procurement plans.
- Procurement
- To be responsible for evaluating tenders and supporting moderation to achieve Contract Award.
- To be responsible for supporting the development of contract management plans.
- Post Contract
- To be responsible for providing commercial assurance to Head of Commercial of all Delivery commercial activities including:
- To be responsible for delivering commercial and contract management of the contracts to maintain effective commercial control;
- To be responsible for the administration of the obligations of the Project Manager under the NEC3 Contract, including assessment of:-
- variations and compensation events
- contract payments
- performance incentive
- To be responsible for maintaining effective cost verification;
- To be responsible for reviewing and analysing supply chain monthly reports to drive supply chain performance;
- To be responsible for inputting contract level performance information into monthly MBR reports;
- To be responsible for participating and contributing in and contribute to monthly contract and programme performance reviews and other ad hoc reviews and supporting final cost estimate updates;
- To be responsible for supporting the settlement of supply chain disputes;
- To be responsible for providing day to day ad hoc contract and commercial advice to client team;
- To be responsible for providing commercial assessment of opportunities for project savings supporting the development of associated proposals / business case for approval;
- To be responsible for supporting the development of a collaborative culture within the IPT (Integrated Project Team) that encourages innovation, enhances functional capability, creates consistency of performance, maximises the benefits of knowledge sharing and embeds industry best practice across the organisation;
- To be responsible for supporting the commercial relationship and engagement with key contractors.
- To be responsible for review estimates (at all stages)
Required criteria
- Experience of managing commercial management teams' members in infrastructure projects and programmes.
- Experience of working with or for publicly funded bodies and/or a publicly funded project.
- Experience of planning, developing and implementing infrastructure contracts and of working with procurement teams in tender preparation, administration and evaluation.
- Experience of using commercial management and reporting systems.
Skills:
Type of experience:
- Ability to manage and administer high value and delivery critical contracts to deliver major complex infrastructure or similar projects and programmes.
- Ability to develop commercial strategies and plans on capital projects.
- Ability to support the development and management of effective, value driven management of commercial relationships with supply chain.
- Ability to support negotiations with both internal and external parties, and to settle disputes.
- Ability to support the management of stakeholder parties to achieve successful project outcomes.
- Ability to develop commercial policies, processes and procedures.
- Ability to support the development of commercial teams.
- Ability to demonstrate contract, commercial and risk management skills.
Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.