Commercial Contract Manager

Capgemini; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Capgemini in the United Kingdom seeks a Commercial Manager to support diverse projects, programmes, and services for a public sector client. The role blends office, client site, and home working, with hybrid arrangements reflecting business needs.

You will lead bid development, negotiate commercial terms, and manage contract documentation while coordinating with legal teams to mitigate risk and drive value.

Qualifications

• Relevant Commercial and Contract management experience with UK public sector or large private organisations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proactive engagement with growing a team and supporting others.
• Resilient under pressure and able to adapt to shifting priorities.
• Ability to manage conflicting demands and take decisive action.
• Familiarity with Microsoft tools (Outlook, Teams, Copilot).

Responsibilities

• Support multiple complex commercial arrangements across the business.
• Contribute to structuring, reviewing and approving bids, change requests and contracts.
• Lead and facilitate development of client proposals, deals, bids and negotiations.
• Own commercial and contract documentation and ensure currency and availability.
• Provide commercial management for bid work to win and sustain business while mitigating risk.
• Collaborate closely with legal counsel.

Skills

Commercial management

Contract management

Stakeholder management

Resilience under pressure

Decision making

Tools

Outlook

Teams

Copilot

Job description

About The Job You’re Considering

Commercial management role within Capgemini, providing ongoing Commercial and Contractual support for Projects, Programmes and Services Teams working directly with our public sector client. Account turnover circa £350m pa. The role will also provide commercial support to new client tenders/bids and work closely with the teams Ecosystem and Partner Relationship Management functions to build and maintain positive, value-creation relationships with suppliers.

Hybrid working: The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

If you are successfully offered this position, you will go through a series of pre-employment checks, including identity, nationality (single or dual) or immigration status, employment history going back 3 continuous years, and unspent criminal record check (known as Disclosure and Barring Service).

Your role

• Work across the business, supporting multiple complex commercial arrangements
• Make a significant contribution to the structuring, review and commercial approval of new bids Change Requests, Proposals and Contract Change Notes
• Lead and facilitate the development of client proposals; deals; bids and subsequent commercial negotiations
• Own commercial and contract documentation and ensure currency and availability
• Provide commercial management for bid work, helping to win and maintain business, drive value and mitigate risk
• Work closely with legal counsel

Your Skills And Experience

• Relevant Commercial and Contract management experience working with UK public sector or other large private sector organisations
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proactive engagement with growing a team, creating time to support others
• Resilient and able to maintain perspective under pressure
• Ability to manage conflicting demands and demonstrates confidence in taking a new course of action
• Familiarity with Microsoft tools e.g Outlook; Teams; Copilot

We are a Disability Confident Employer

Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government’s Disability Confident scheme.

As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:

• Declare they have a disability, and
• Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.

Please opt in during the application process.

Your security clearance

To be successfully appointed to this role you will need to undergo Baseline Personnel Security Standard checks.

There are no nationality or residency restrictions, although if you have resided outside of the UK within the last 3 years, further checks may be required.

There are other criteria and check required for BPSS, and throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.

Make it real – what does it mean for you?

You’ll be bringing your unique skills and perspectives to the team, inspiring and taking inspiration from your teammates as you unlock value in everything you do. You’ll be joining a professional community of experts, who have got your back and will support you, every step of the way. You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini's ‘learning for life’ mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard ManageMentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.

Why you should consider Capgemini

Growing clients’ businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you’ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what’s possible. It’s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world’s leading businesses, and it’s how you’ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you’ll build the skills you want. You’ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.5 billion.

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