Commercial Business Partner

JR United Kingdom; Addlestone; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in urban mobility is seeking a Commercial Business Partner based in Addlestone. In this role, you will oversee negotiations, support sales strategies, and manage complex commercial arrangements. Ideal candidates will have a strong commercial background, leadership skills, and be capable of resolving intricate business issues.

Benefits

Car Allowance

Company Discretionary Bonus

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Pension Scheme

Private Medical Coverage

Life Assurance

Educational Support

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in a senior commercial role.
• Proven track record in managing complex contracts.
• Technical expert with experience in Health & Safety compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage pre-contract negotiations and develop work-winning opportunities.
• Provide governance and dispute management support.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Negotiation

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

BSc or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

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Location: Addlestone,England,United Kingdom
Job ID:82276

Company description:

Location: Addlestone,England,United Kingdom
Job ID:82276

We Elevate... Quality of urban life

Our elevators, escalators, and moving walks safely transport more than twobillion of us up and down buildings and across transportation hubs every day. As part of the Schindler team, youll discover meaningful work that enhancesquality of life for communities, and contribute to making places moreaccessible, inclusive, and sustainable for all. We combine innovation, safety, and high ethical standards, ensuring respectboth among colleagues and for the world around us. By joining us, you dontjust become part of our success story; you help shape the future and continueour rich legacy that started back in 1874.

Job description:

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Commercial Business Partner to the Team, based out of Addlestone Office. We are looking for an exceptional individual with proven operational and sales-support experience to join our commercial organisation, and assume the responsibility for providing bid commercial, governance and dispute management support with a primary focus on the Existing Installations business, but also other areas requiring commercial expertise. This role will be responsible for managing pre-contract negotiations, developing work-winning opportunities and managing risks in a balanced way. This will encompass a broad range of interactions with both internal and external stakeholders, providing guidance, assistance, legal, technical and commercial inputs/training (including supporting the development and enhancement of the pricing model) and leading negotiations.The successful candidate will work closely with Sales, Legal and Field Operations (FO), ensuring best practice is demonstrated at all times.This role is an excellent chance for you to expand your existing skills in a large, global organisation within a territory that gets a lot of attention from the Europe Zone it reports into, as well as the Group Top Management This is a full time and permanent role.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Ability to balance the longer-term strategic goals with the short-term business performance
  Strong presentation, negotiation and influencing skills
• Outstanding communication skills, with customer service etiquette
• Leadership skills to positively influence peers and others
• Excellent time management, planning and analytical skills, with a strong attention to detail
• Ability to prioritise workload effectively, and working with attention to detail
• Strong business acumen and negotiation capability, ability to solve complex issues, exercise sound judgement and the ability to make decisions based on accurate and timely analysis
• Ambition (both technical and leadership) the opportunity has significant career growth potential both locally and internationally
• Focused, Versatile, Driven and Committed
• Good interpersonal skills/ team player
• Great Attitude (Can Do) and problem-solving skills

Profile description:

Candidate Requirements:

• Proven track record of operational commercial know-how managing complex contract arrangements and disputes
• Technical expert, role holder will be educated to at least BSc or equivalent full technical standard, with commercial experience and of working closely with Legal
• Demonstrate experience of estimating service delivery / project costs, and presenting high quality tender documents to customers
• Demonstrate experience of managing Health & Safety compliance including CDM requirements
• Preferably a minimum of 5 years experience operating at a senior level within the commercial environment in the maintenance and/or construction industry.
• Knowledge of key Pre-construction procedures, e.g., Procurement, Planning and Contracts
• Demonstrate IT literacy capability including full literacy with Microsoft Office suite
• Actively pursues, and makes the most of, customer networking and business development opportunities
• Seen as an expert in own area of functional/technical expertise; ownership of statutory reporting competence

We offer:

• Car Allowance
• Company Discretionary Bonus
• 25 days pa, increasing at significant continuous service milestones years; plus 8 days bank holidays.
• Pension: Auto-enrolment, minimum 3.5% employee contribution and 6% employer contribution. (Employees can increase their contribution, but the maximum employer contribution is 6%).
• Private Medical: Access to Couples cover
• Life Assurance 3 x annual salary cover if in pension scheme/1 x annual salary cover if not in pension scheme
• Hybrid Working (office presence across the hubs will be required but with some home working flexibilities)
• Educational support and access to development and talent programmes (local as well as global)

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