Commercial Manager

Connected Consulting Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Connected Consulting Limited is seeking an experienced Commercial Contracts Manager to join a high-performing commercial team in a scaling business delivering smart water solutions. The role focuses on drafting, negotiating and closing complex agreements, while ensuring risks are understood, managed and communicated.

You will work with commercial, legal, finance, operational and project stakeholders, take ownership of key workstreams and drive agreements to completion.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts.
• Strong knowledge of supplier agreements, subcontractor agreements and contractual flow-down mechanisms.
• The ability to understand and balance commercial opportunity with contractual risk.
• Experience taking agreements from initial drafting through negotiation, approval and execution.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the confidence to engage at senior levels.
• Experience within utilities, smart metering, energy networks.

Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex customer, supplier and subcontractor agreements.
• Interpreting prime contract obligations and translating these into robust supplier flow-down provisions.
• Managing multiple concurrent contract negotiations and keeping momentum through to execution.
• Coordinating input from legal, finance, operational and commercial stakeholders.
• Identifying commercial, contractual and delivery risks and recommending practical mitigation strategies.
• Supporting governance, approvals and contract execution processes.
• Building strong working relationships with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Risk assessment

Utilities sector experience

Flow-down provisions

Job description

Are you the type of commercial contracts professional who enjoys rolling up your sleeves and getting complex agreements over the line? If this is you, then please read on! I'm working on behalf of a scaling business that provides smart water solutions, and they require an experienced Commercial Contracts Manager to work within a high-performing commercial team.

The role will involve providing additional commercial and contractual expertise across a portfolio of strategically important agreements. Focusing on drafting, negotiating and closing complex commercial agreements, whilst ensuring risks are understood, managed and communicated effectively. You'll be working closely with commercial, legal, finance, operational and project stakeholders, taking ownership of key contractual workstreams and helping drive agreements through to completion.

What you'll be doing

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex customer, supplier and subcontractor agreements.


• Interpreting prime contract obligations and translating these into robust supplier flow-down provisions.


• Managing multiple concurrent contract negotiations and keeping momentum through to execution.


• Coordinating input from legal, finance, operational and commercial stakeholders.


• Identifying commercial, contractual and delivery risks and recommending practical mitigation strategies.


• Supporting governance, approvals and contract execution processes.


• Building strong working relationships with customers, suppliers and subcontractors.

What we're looking for

This role requires significant experience in commercial contract management, alongside the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment where priorities can shift quickly.

• Extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts.


• Strong knowledge of supplier agreements, subcontractor agreements and contractual flow-down mechanisms.


• The ability to understand and balance commercial opportunity with contractual risk.


• Experience taking agreements from initial drafting through negotiation, approval and execution.


• Excellent stakeholder management skills and the confidence to engage at senior levels.


• Experience within utilities, smart metering, energy networks.

If you're an experienced Commercial Contract Manager ready to tackle some interesting contract challenges, then we'd love to hear from you.