Commercial Manager

KIER GROUP; Chatham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

We're looking for a Commercial Manager to join our Natural Resources team, within a commutable distance to Falmer. In this role, you'll lead commercials on the mobilisation and ongoing operations of our new 7-year, c£1bn framework with Southern Water.

Location: Falmer, East Sussex up to 3 days a week
Contract: Permanent, Full Time – flexible and part-time hours may be available if desired, just let us know.

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will work within a delegated level of authority and will have overall day-to-day commercial responsibility supporting the framework team in managing the commercial, procurement and financial aspects of Southern Water Strategic Delivery programme for AMP 8. This is a rare opportunity to mobilise projects across Southern Water's areas.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Working closely with the wider Senior Leadership Team to advise on commercial strategy to ensure successful conversion of opportunities and profitability of work undertaken.
• Advising on commercial implications of any bid or delivery strategies ensuring full visibility on risk and reward opportunities.
• Seeking and implementing effective risk management and mitigation strategies to achieve targeted commercial outcomes.
• Managing a team of commercial staff across the region, identifying talent, training needs, allocating resources, recruiting, and ensuring development through PDRs.
• Empowering excellent performance at all levels, ensuring that Kier Culture and principles are upheld and generally being an ambassador for the NRNN business.

What are we looking for?

This Commercial Manager role is great for you if you have:

• A relevant Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying and can demonstrate lengthy experience in a senior commercial capacity within a Tier 1 main contracting environment.
• Chartered Status in a relevant professional body or appropriate professional qualification.
• Strong understanding of NEC, JCT conditions, arbitration, and adjudication processes.
• Strong commercial reporting track record, ability to produce board-level reports for the region accurately outlining the business commercial position, risks, and opportunities.
• Experience in developing and implementing wider commercial strategies to drive work winning, business unit growth, and profitability.

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply, and we can have a chat.

If you would like to explore more about the incredible growth and scale of our water business, dive into our diverse project portfolios, and uncover both current and future career opportunities.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier.