Assistant Commercial Manager - C&P

ENGINEERINGUK; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Assistant Commercial Manager, providing vital support to commercial teams on significant infrastructure projects. This role offers a competitive salary and the chance to work in a dynamic environment, contributing to the improvement of the railway system in the North of England.

Benefits

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

75% discount on leisure travel

Access to employee assistance programs

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Proven ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Experience in a generalist commercial environment.
• Demonstrable experience in managing investment projects.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the measurement and evaluation of commercial value of payments.
• Assist with reporting on all commercial aspects of allocated projects.
• Prepare contract specifications and pre-tender documentation.

Skills

Good administration skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Commercial awareness

Negotiation skills

Job description

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About Network Rail

Key Information

Role: Assistant Commercial Manager

Salary: £28,000 per annum, depending on experience

Location: Leeds Whitehall Quay

Contract Type: Permanent

Office Requirement: Hybrid. Minimum of 3 days per week in the office

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Employees will be entitled to a discretionary 75% discount off leisure travel this includes off peak and super off-peak tickets. Employees will also be entitled to 75% discount on season tickets.

Network Rail Benefits - To find out about what benefits we offer, click here

Join Our Team at Network Rail!

Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. Watch our video to find out more!

We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone. Discover more about the importance of Diversity and Inclusion at Network Rail by clicking here.

Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!

About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance. To learn why inclusion is important to us, please click here .

We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.

Transpennine Route Upgrade

The Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is the largest Infrastructure project in the North delivering £10.7 billion Programme of activities that is improving the railway between York and Manchester via Leeds and Huddersfield.

Stretching across the North of England, this key 76-mile Transpennine railway serves 23 stations, crosses over and dips under 285 bridges and viaducts, passes through six miles of tunnels, and crosses over 11 level crossings.

Proposed improvements as will deliver a hard-working, reliable railway for passengers, allowing for trains with more seats, more services and faster journey times.

For more information visit www.theTRUpgrade.co.uk

Brief Description

The role advertised is to provide Commercial Support to the wider Commercial teams at all levels in support of the TRU central portfolio of projects. Within this role you will be responsible for Assisting Commercial team members by caring out day to day commercial activities.

This role will be utilised to support our W2BC project which is in the early stages of construction/design. The aim of this project is to transform the TransPennine main line to bring passengers more frequent, faster, greener trains, running on a better, cleaner, and more reliable railway. While some elements of the programme are still being designed and developed, our major programme of work continues, to bring better journeys for passengers across the Pennines and beyond. The W2BC project is a hub and spoke model as part of the main programme of TRU works, with 6 spokes to work with, the project spans over 10 years and has a budget of Circa £1.5bn. While this project is in the design stage it is the perfect time for someone to start on the project and really get embedded into the team.

The main responsibilities for this role will be to assist the Commercial Manager in pre-contract activities and evaluating and agreeing the value of payments and variations for a variety of works throughout the Route.

Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic individual who thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and is passionate about delivering impactful business outcomes. The ideal needs confidence to manage complex information and work independently at times. This is an exciting and challenging Commercial role within an existing team structure to mentor and support your development. You will develop an understanding and capability of the TRU Commercial processes and procedures.

Key qualities:

• Proven ability to work to tight deadlines

• Good administration and analytical skills

• Good interpersonal and relationship building skills

• Good commercial awareness

• A customer focussed approach

• Railway knowledge

• Experience of working within a generalist commercial environment

• Awareness of industry issues

• Demonstrable experience in commercially managing investment projects

• Demonstrable relevant experience

• Good understanding of railway and construction industry forms of contract

• Good understanding of the construction/railway industry

• Good negotiation skills

• Demonstrable skills in initiating and building positive working relationships with customers, their team and stakeholders.

• Demonstrable experience of seeking ways to improve ways of working, being open to change and doing things differently

• Demonstrable experience of being output driven, prioritising work to deliver on time and taking ownership in their role

• Demonstrates an ability to make timely decisions and to think ahead

• Demonstrable experience of having a positive attitude about work and change and demonstrating positive working behaviours

About the role (External)

Some of the key accountabilities of this role are:

1. Assist in the measurement and evaluation of the commercial value of payments, monitoring the correct certification of works prior to authorisation in accordance with contractual obligations.

2. Assist with the reporting on all commercial aspects of allocated projects.

3. Assist in the preparation of contract specification and pre-tender documentation.

4. Assist with the general procurement/commercial management on a variety of contract categories.

We need you to have:

• Ability to work to deadlines.

• Good problem-solving skills.

• Basic level of commercial awareness

• Basic negotiation skills with ability to influence decision making.

• Computer literate including ability to utilise in-house and external software.

It would be advantageous if you have:

• Able to effectively communicate at the appropriate levels, both internally and externally

• Membership of an appropriate professional organisation, or working towards membership

• Experience of using electronic sourcing and/or procurement systems

How to apply (External)
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All offers of employment are conditional upon satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks. Click here for more information

Drugs & Alcohol test: All prospective candidates offered a conditional role will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced

Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do, safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. You should be able to demonstrate your personal commitment to safety and awareness in your application.

Salary: £28,000 per annum depending on experience

This role can be based in the following locations: Leeds Whitehall Quay

Closing date : 3rd June 2025 . Late applications will not be accepted. We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.

Company

Every day, 4.8 million people use our network. Keeping Britain moving and building a better railway for the future is full of challenges – but also tremendous opportunities.

From our commitments to your development, our range of benefits and our approach to Diversity & Inclusion, we believe there are many reasons to join the team at Network Rail.

We’re proactive in empowering employees with the knowledge to help them progress. We encourage all our employees to be ambitious, and offer great training and career development opportunities. As the railway becomes bigger and more technologically advanced, it’s crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead.

We believe that investing in our people is one of the most effective ways of improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway.

We also know that it’s vital to get each individual’s training programme just right. As well as helping us to meet our immediate needs, we believe this is an approach that encourages people to stay with us and develop their careers.

Your health, wellbeing and benefits

We believe that safety and performance go hand in hand and this doesn’t just mean safety on the railway! We are committed to the wellbeing of our employees and believe, that should come first.

We provide access to support services such as our employee assistance program to help you with finances, family, health and wellbeing. In addition to this, we offer excellent benefits, are sensitive to work-life balance and encourage our employees to use their 5 volunteer days for their favourite causes.

We have a range of benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave entitlement.
• My benefits – Our discounted online shopping site.
• A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, Healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits.
• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets.
• A range of pension schemes.
• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community.

What Diversity and Inclusion means to us

‘Diversity’ means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

Our aspiration is that the behaviours and actions that support diversity and inclusion will come from the conviction of everyone here at Network Rail – making diversity and inclusion a conscious part of how we run our business throughout Britain.

Disability Confident Leader

Network Rail is an accreditedDisability Confident Leader . This means, where a disabled applicant meets the essential criteria for any of our vacancies, they will receive an interview.

Find out more about our recruitment processhere

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