31879 - Commercial Manager

Environment Agency; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental organization in the United Kingdom seeks a Commercial Centre of Excellence Manager to lead and implement commercial strategies. The ideal candidate will manage commercial risks, oversee contract management, and engage stakeholders effectively. Required qualifications include Chartered membership in a relevant professional body and significant experience in commercial environments. This role is critical for enhancing operational teams' contract management skills.

Qualifications

• Chartered membership of a recognized professional body like CIPS, ICE, IMechE, CIWEM, MAPM, or MRICS is essential.
• Significant experience in a commercial, project, programme, procurement or contract management environment is required.
• Technical experience and expertise in the commercial lifecycle are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead on implementation of commercial strategies, procurement, and frameworks.
• Provide high-level advice as a Subject Matter Expert to manage commercial risk.
• Develop and implement commercial processes, controls, and templates.

Skills

Contract Management

Stakeholder Management

Commercial Strategy

Risk Management

Project Management

Education

Chartered membership of a recognized professional body

Degree level educated or equivalent professional qualification

Job description

Overview

We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community wishing to join a workforce which embraces difference and welcomes everyone.

To successfully lead their portfolio, the Commercial Centre of Excellence Manager will:

• Lead on implementation, support and engagement including, but not limited to: establishment and analysis of industry best practice; Commercial Strategy; future procurements and frameworks; external assurance and scrutiny.
• Provide high level advice, support, and guidance as Subject Matter Expert, to inform and influence the management of commercial risk. This includes the New Engineering Contract (NEC) management, benefits management, Commercial Support and Escalation Group (ComSEG), Commercial strategy, supply chain mapping, market intelligence reporting and economic and financial standing assessments.
• Inform, develop, implement, and assess our commercial and supporting strategies, delivery models, contract approaches, management systems and other such initiatives across the function/s in an efficient and integrated way.
• Define, map, optimise and own/maintain commercial processes, controls, tools and templates.
• Lead the development and assurance of Commercial Cases for all Portfolio and Programme-level Business Cases.
• Develop Commercial capability, awareness and acumen across the wider business.
• Develop Commercial expertise and alignment to the Government Commercial Standard, including undertaking the CCIAF.
• Oversee the management of risks and issues including having mitigation, response and escalation strategies in place, and audit action closure.
• Dispute Review and Avoidance — conducting annual dispute reviews, publishing findings, and delivering workshops to embed lessons learned.
• Market Insights Reporting — presenting findings at internal forums, and embedding insights into the Commercial Report.
• Everyone that joins us is required to undertake training and participate in incident response duties when the need to respond arises. Having an incident role is an essential part of working for the Environment Agency and an active way to support communities and prevent harm to the environment. Further information on incident response can be found within your candidate pack.

The team

The Commercial Centre of Excellence (CoE) team ensure our Operational Teams have the necessary contract management skills, processes, systems, and acumen. They work with central government (including Defra and Cabinet Office), key stakeholders, industry, and professional bodies to identify, understand, influence, and help introduce best practice.

The role holder will deliver a business critical portfolio within the Commercial Centre of Excellence team including:

• Commercial Strategy
• Commercial Assurance
• Commercial Processes
• Commercial Capability
• Commercial Intelligence
• Commercial Operations

Experience/skills required

Essential Education & Professional Requirements

• Chartered membership of a recognised professional body, such as CIPS, ICE, IMechE, CIWEM, MAPM or MRICS.
• Contract Management Capability Programme Beyond Foundation Accreditation (or equivalent).

Desired Education & Professional Requirements

• New Engineering Contract NEC4 ECC & NEC4 PSC Service Management Training (certificated).
• Degree level educated, or equivalent professional qualification.

Essential Experience

• Significant experience in a commercial, project, programme, procurement or contract management environment, ideally within public sector, engineering, construction, FCRM and/or the water sector.
• Technical experience and expertise of the commercial lifecycle.
• Experience of commercial assurance reviews of Business Cases.
• A skilled communicator with strong interpersonal and influencing skills with experience managing a range of stakeholders, both internally and external.

Other Experience/ Skills

• Formal training and accreditation in project/programme management.
• Experience of delivering and implementing commercial models for large capital programmes delivered using the NEC Form of Contract.
• Thorough knowledge of procurement legislation.