Commercial & Performance Manager – Supplier & Performance Lead (Hybrid)

Pontoon; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 91,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary and annual bonus

Pension contributions

Medical insurance

Life insurance

Holiday and sick pay

Job summary

Pontoon is recruiting a Commercial and Performance Manager to join our growing consultancy team. The role focuses on overseeing a high-volume portfolio of consultancy engagements, driving commercial value, and ensuring supplier performance aligns with contractual commitments.

The position is a 6-month contract with hybrid working across Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, or Halifax, 2 days onsite per week and the rest remote. Working hours are 35 per week, Monday to Friday.

Qualifications

• Experience managing supplier relationships, contracts, commercial performance or consultancy engagements.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Commercial mindset with the ability to assess value and improve supplier outcomes.
• Excellent organisation skills and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Ability to identify trends and translate insight into actions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Experience working with contracts, statements of work or supplier agreements.
• Confident communicator able to engage stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams.
• Experience operating in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of consultancy engagements, monitoring delivery, performance and commercial outcomes.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders to understand priorities, requirements and programme objectives.
• Engage with suppliers to ensure delivery aligns with contractual commitments and business expectations.
• Monitor a varied portfolio of live engagements, from short-term consultancy assignments to strategic programmes.
• Analyse supplier and engagement data to identify trends, risks, opportunities and improvement actions.
• Challenge and influence engagement scope, extensions and future demand.
• Partner with sourcing and procurement colleagues to inform future commercial decisions.
• Ensure contract compliance and understanding of key contractual obligations.
• Identify and resolve performance issues, risks and remediation requirements.
• Maintain accurate governance records, trackers and management information.
• Share insights and best practice across the wider team.
• Support the ongoing development of the supplier management function.

Skills

Supplier management

Contract management

Commercial performance

Consultancy engagements

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Fast-paced environment

SOW/contract knowledge

Client relationship

Tools

Ariba

Job description

Pontoon is recruiting a Commercial and Performance Manager to join our growing consultancy team. The role focuses on overseeing a high-volume portfolio of consultancy engagements, driving commercial value, and ensuring supplier performance aligns with contractual commitments.

The position is a 6-month contract with hybrid working across Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, or Halifax, 2 days onsite per week and the rest remote. Working hours are 35 per week, Monday to Friday.