Associate Commercial Lead/Commercial Manager - Milton Keynes

Guidant Group; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic opportunity has arisen for an Associate Commercial Lead/Commercial Manager to join a leading team in Milton Keynes. The role involves managing customer relationships, overseeing contracts, and providing commercial solutions for diverse projects. Candidates should possess significant commercial expertise, strong analytical abilities, and leadership skills. The organization values diversity and is committed to fostering an inclusive environment. Competitive salary range established, reflecting the responsibility and impact of the role.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in commercial roles.
• Strong relationship management with customers, suppliers, and colleagues.
• Experience across the project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Support the Commercial Lead, managing own portfolio or workstreams.
• Ensure fulfillment of goods and services across the business.
• Drive opportunities for new activities to enhance customer offering.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Analytical ability

Problem-solving

Negotiation

People skills

Education

CIPS Level 5 or equivalent

Job description

We're currently seeking a number of experienced and ambitious Associate Commercial Lead/Commercial Manager professionals to work with our exceptional client in a secure environment, supporting challenging and highly rewarding projects.

These contract roles will require you to conduct security clearance prior to assignment. Opportunities are available in Milton Keynes.

You'll have the potential to work effectively across a diverse range of internal projects and teams spanning multiple business units as a customer lead or an operational specialist, assessing requirements, to provide and manage solutions and services that align with your customer's needs and deliver organisational excellence as well as compliance. You will be encouraged to showcase your skills on unique projects.

You will demonstrate responsiveness, efficiency, and professionalism in supporting the Commercial Lead, managing your own portfolio or workstreams—ensuring the fulfilment of goods and services across the business. You'll employ high standards throughout the project lifecycle (specifications, ITTs, contracts, and management). You will support continuous improvement of people and commercial capabilities, enabling and driving opportunities for new activities to enhance your customer offering and inspire others around you. Faultless commercial acumen, influencing, prioritisation, negotiation, and people skills are essential.

With significant expertise in commercial settings, your analytical ability and risk-benefit assessment skills will be critical. You will develop strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and colleagues, prioritising delivery amidst complex activities and competing criteria. You will be adaptable and experienced enough to deliver tactical and strategic outcomes, approaching challenges enthusiastically, focusing on customer needs, understanding issues, creating solutions, and identifying new opportunities for enhancement.

These roles operate in an environment that is far from ordinary, so we're not looking for the ordinary.

Your qualification, experience, skills, and behaviours:

As an exceptional commercial professional, you will have:

• Demonstrable experience in commercial roles
• Experience in sourcing, commercial operations, supply chain, or supplier management
• Responsibility for a portfolio of contracts and frameworks
• Experience across the project lifecycle (drafting specifications, facilitating ITTs, evaluating contracts, ensuring VFM)
• Experience in writing commercial plans and strategic documents
• Knowledge of buying, purchasing, invoicing, billing, and contract creation
• Ability to achieve cost reductions, efficiencies, and enhancements
• Data analysis skills to support decision-making
• Contractual issue resolution skills
• Strong relationship management with customers, suppliers, and colleagues

Ideally, experience in technology or digital environments.

You will:

• Hold or be willing to attain a professional commercial qualification such as CIPS (Level 5) or equivalent

You can demonstrate expertise in:

• Coaching, mentoring, knowledge sharing
• Leadership, issue resolution, upskilling, and support
• Problem-solving and task management
• Effective communication

And you will role model the following behaviours:

• Proactive, committed to personal development, self-starter
• Rapport building, driven, resilient
• Inclusive, collaborative, responsive

In return:

You'll join an ambitious, high-level team focused on delivering outstanding outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to move away from the mundane and work on life-changing projects.

If you're ready for a challenge like no other, apply today.

Guidant Global is committed to fostering an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. We actively recruit talent from all backgrounds, believing that diversity leads to innovative solutions and exceptional outcomes.