Commercial Manager

Balfour Beatty; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Balfour Beatty is seeking a Commercial Manager to join their Highways Commercial team in Manchester. The role involves overseeing financial management for major highway projects, negotiating contracts, and implementing commercial strategies. Candidates should possess strong organisational and negotiation skills, with relevant engineering qualifications. This position offers competitive compensation and extensive career benefits within a leading company in infrastructure delivery.

Benefits

Company car

25 days annual leave

Pension savings schemes

Hybrid working available

Various employee benefits and discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in managing commercial agreements and contracts.
• Ability to draft legal documents and manage risks.
• Familiarity with highway infrastructure maintenance and engineering.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for financial management of projects from inception to delivery.
• Negotiate contracts and manage commercial strategy on tenders.
• Co-ordinate with design and procurement teams for project execution.

Skills

Organisational skills

Negotiation

Time management

Creativity

Resilience

Education

Degree in engineering or associated discipline

Job description

About the role

Our Balfour Beatty Highways business has a terrific opportunity for a Commercial Manager to join our Highways Commercial team.

Balfour Beatty Highways maintain, manage and operate major highway networks across the UK and support local authorities creating communities where people want to live work and play.

We provide high quality asset strategy, management and planning consultancy services to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We provide specialist, reliable, sustainable and creative advice for asset management planning and implementation in the UK. We put our customers first and prioritise completing schemes safely, efficiently and to a high standard.

What you'll be doing

As a Commercial Manager, you will be responsible for the financial management of standard projects from inception, tendering to, negotiating and agreeing contracts, and then commercial delivering projects often worth many millions of pounds:

• To be responsible for commercial strategy on tenders and opportunities, linking risk and commercial terms and coming up with innovative solutions.
• Negotiation of contract conditions and documents, including joint venture agreements.
• Warranty Review and negotiation.
• Checks on customers and partners: utilising Dow Jones, Credit Insurer, Companies House and internet searches.
• Working with BB Legal to draft tender conditions.
• Presenting commercial issues through Gate papers in order to secure the necessary approvals.
• Manage the tender risk and opportunities registers through co-ordination with the work winning team members.
• Work with the Design, Estimating and Procurement team to achieve the most appropriate procurement approach for each project.

Who we're looking for

• An organised, innovative, creative and experienced Commercial Manager with experience of working on and putting together proposals of nature and size within the BBLP/BBGE pipeline.
• Someone who is innovative in the way risks and opportunities can be managed through commercial terms.
• A good understanding of commercial agreements (joint venture agreements, contracts and internal trading agreements), and the ability to work with legal on their drafting.
• Excellent time management skills (to get things done to a high standard very quickly).
• An awareness of the quality assurance process for proposals before they are issued to the client.
• Resilience and a determination to succeed to cope with the challenges and frustrations of a bidding environment.
• Experience of highway infrastructure maintenance and scheme delivery and piling or other similar engineering disciplines.
• Qualifications: Degree level or equivalent in an engineering or associated discipline relative to the role.

Still interested? then come and become colleagues with 26,000 staff and join a business which recorded 8.6bn in revenues last year, achieved industry leading customer satisfaction scores and has unrivalled employee engagement statistics.

An excellent range of benefits awaits the successful candidate: -

• An attractive / negotiated salary
• 42 core base hours per week
• Company car
• Hybrid working available
• 25 days annual leave
• Pension savings schemes
• A whole host of other BB staff employee bens (discounts, exclusive offers etc)
• Refer a friend bonus scheme
• Scores of other Balfour Beatty opportunities available as well via our balfourbeattycareers.com portal.

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UKs most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasnt rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You'll have the freedom to shape the package thats right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

About us

Balfour Beattys Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

We are a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: [e-mail]