Senior Commercial Manager

Arguile Search; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An international consultancy is seeking a Senior Commercial Contract Manager to shape the future of their commercial department. This role offers opportunities to lead commercial negotiations and focus on profit growth while managing risks. Ideal candidates will have experience in the civil nuclear industry and a strong understanding of both legal and financial aspects. The position involves working closely with delivery teams to ensure project success and client satisfaction. Travel across the UK as needed is expected.

Qualifications

• Experience in the civil nuclear industry is advantageous.
• Mindset focused on maximizing value and minimizing risk.
• Ability to work closely with finance and operations.

Responsibilities

• Identify risks, liabilities, and commitments in contracts.
• Review, draft, and maintain contract documents.
• Monitor performance against contractual obligations.
• Prevent and resolve contractual disputes.
• Support client engagement teams in commercial aspects.

Skills

Risk management

Contract negotiation

Financial management

Customer satisfaction monitoring

Job description

Flexible location, travel across the UK as needed.

Our client, an international consultancy business, currently have an opportunity for a Senior Commercial Contract Manager, within a fast growing commercial department, this is a unique opportunity, a chance to be truly strategic and shape the future of the organisation.

The company have a long and successful history of delivering large projects to various private and public sectors clients and are on a journey to change the way they do business - and looking for ambitious, commercially minded individuals to help them get to the next level!

The role holder will have the opportunity to lead the commercial negotiation of new business with both new and existing clients and to shape the strategic direction of the function. This is not a sales role, but will be focussed heavily on growth on profit, alongside risk mitigation.

You will :

• Identify the risks, liabilities, and commitments of contractual agreements; ensure these are clearly understood and that the business fully appreciates any potential impact.
• Review, draft, update and maintain contract documents
• Monitor and report performance and compliance against contractual obligations including commercial performance, financial management and contract management
• Monitor customer satisfaction
• Work with the contract delivery teams to ensure that the management of change request process and change implementation is carried out in line with the contracts.
• Report on progress of change requests and projects
• Review contract performance, assessing commercial risks and ensuring appropriate steps are taken to manage the risk
• Prevent and resolve contractual disputes
• Assuring adherence to Group Commercial Policy
• Supporting the client engagement teams in all commercial aspects, post contract signature, to achieve the orders, profit and cash budget and overall management of the Client relationship.
• Support the delivery streams who are responsible for the delivery of projects and provide clear direction working with the client engagement team.

The person :

• Experience of working in the civil nuclear industry would be advantageous
• growth minding - looking at maximising value and minimising risk
• Experience of working closely with finance, operations and technical specialists.
• Good on both the legals and financials.