Commercial Manager

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Wales; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure service provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a skilled project manager to join their Transmission & Renewables team. Your role will involve driving commercial success through effective project strategies and leading high-performing teams. Ideal candidates will have experience in National Grid substation projects, expert knowledge of various contracts, and be commercially astute. This position offers a competitive salary, excellent benefits including a pension scheme and private healthcare, and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Company car and fuel card

Private health care

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in a similar role, ideally on National Grid substation projects.
• Expert knowledge of standard forms of contract including NEC 3/4, JCT & FIDIC.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Drive commercial success by shaping and executing project strategies.
• Champion HSEQ leadership while inspiring commercial teams.
• Collaborate with Finance to optimise cash-flow and business performance.

Skills

Commercially astute

Strong negotiation skills

Project management

Relationship building

Understanding of project controls

Tools

NEC contracts

JCT contracts

FIDIC

Job description

About The Role Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine.

Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop.

Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team.

We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

This role will be based between the Caldicot office and site visits across the South West & South Wales.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

• Drive commercial success by shaping and executing project strategies in partnership with the Portfolio Manager
• Champion HSEQ leadership while inspiring and developing high‑performing commercial teams through training and mentorship
• Lead tender reviews, identify risks and opportunities, and deliver robust CVR and progress reporting to senior leadership
• Collaborate with Finance and Project Teams to optimise forecasts, cash‑flow and business plan performance
• Build strong client and supplier relationships to secure new work and resolve disputes
• Oversee procurement, ensure contractual compliance and spearhead improvements in regional commercial performance through innovation, training and strategic leadership

What you’ll bring

• Commercially astute with substantial proven experience in a similar role, ideally working on National Grid substation projects
• Expert knowledge of standard forms of contract including NEC 3/4, JCT & FIDIC
• Experience in undertaking reviews of contract terms & negotiating with the client
• Understanding of programme techniques and project controls
• Full UK driving licence
• Willingness to travel across regional sites

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

What’s in it for you?

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans.

Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another.

We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
• Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.

It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date.

Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd‑party background checks as part of the hiring process.

Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.

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