Senior Area Commercial Manager

CityFibre; Norwich; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications provider is seeking a Senior Area Commercial Manager to lead commercial and contractual management of telecoms projects. You will oversee contract management, mentor a high-performing team, and drive strategic change across the region. The ideal candidate will have significant Quantity Surveying experience and a solid understanding of NEC contracting. Competitive salary, car allowance, and comprehensive benefits offered.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Private medical insurance

Performance related bonus

Family friendly policies

Qualifications

• Significant Quantity Surveying experience required.
• Solid understanding of NEC contracting and dispute resolution needed.
• Ability to provide financial reporting with actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial and contractual management of telecoms project portfolio.
• Oversee commercial operations including contract management.
• Manage and mentor a high-performing team.

Skills

Forecasting

Cost Management

Analysis Skills

Negotiation

Education

Quantity Surveying experience

Understanding of NEC contracting

Tools

Hyperion

QlikView

Salesforce

HubSpot

Job description

This role requires travel across Norwich Ipswich and Milton Keynes

As the UK's largest fibre-only network and its only proven wholesale challenger were busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet our network is greener more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed value and service they help businesses to innovate provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Senior Area Commercial Manager

Lead the commercial and contractual management of a telecoms project portfolio covering government-funded and infrastructure build contracts. It supports the Regional Commercial Manager in delivering strategic goals ensuring compliance risk mitigation and financial control across all commercial activities. You would be responsible for developing a high-performing team providing leadership across Operations Finance Legal and Service Delivery. You would all focus on building collaborative relationships with Build Partners and driving standardisation and efficiency across the region.

You’ll receive a competitive salary a car allowance a performance related bonus and a range of benefits to support you across your financial physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing :

• Support the Regional Commercial Manager by providing contractual expertise managing risk and driving strategic change across the region
• Oversee commercial operations within the zone including contract management expenditure control and accurate payment certification aligned with contract terms
• Lead forecasting and financial tracking ensuring spend aligns with approved budgets and proactively identifying risks overspend and efficiency opportunities
• Manage and mentor a high-performing team promoting consistency development and adherence to best practice commercial standards

What you’ll bring to the role

You will have significant Quantity Surveying experience as well as solid understanding of NEC contracting and dispute resolution. You’ll also have :

• Experience overseeing large capital expenditure projects (200m)
• Experience of commercial management and procurement of contractors including chairing regular meetings measurement and control cycle certificates and accruals calculations
• Ability to use data to provide financial reporting with actionable insights and strategic operational focus.
• Managerial experience of a team who have a wide number of stakeholders
• A positive can-do attitude with a willingness to challenge

Diversity Inclusion & Belonging

We're a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We're endorsed by WORK180 and are a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Gold Covenant are a Care Leaver Friendly Employer and were a Disability Confident Leader. Working together with our Employee Communities we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our peoples voices are heard and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre.

If you’d like to explore our culture and values check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave a day off on your birthday a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

Additional Information :

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background family or carer status ethnicity sexual orientation religion age disability gender or gender identity we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process please email us at We want to help!

Remote Work : No

Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

• Forecasting
• Hyperion
• Cost Management
• Construction Estimating
• QlikView
• Bus Driving
• Analysis Skills
• HubSpot
• Salesforce
• Market Research
• Negotiation
• Financial Planning

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1