Senior Commercial Manager

M Group Telecom; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in telecom is seeking a contract manager to oversee contract lifecycles, focusing on negotiation, compliance, and performance management. The role involves close collaboration with senior leaders to enhance service delivery and operational efficiency while handling complex contractual obligations. Join a team that values growth and innovation in an essential sector.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service, 24/7

Employee assistance programme

Retail discounts via My Rewards portal

Life assurance

Enhanced parental leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company car and fuel card

Health Care Cash Plan

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of telecoms and regulated sectors.
• Experience managing contracts and leading negotiations.
• Ability to understand complex contracts and conditions.

Responsibilities

• Manage pre-contract negotiations and post-contract delivery.
• Conduct risk assessments and contract profiling.
• Drive value through proactive contract management.

Skills

Contract management

Negotiation

Team collaboration

Leadership

Risk assessment

Education

Degree in Business, Law, or related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Salesforce

Power BI

Job description

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 Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future.

We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators.

This role will be within our Fixed networks team, you’ll join our people who support providing turnkey solutions for the surveying, designing, building and commissioning new networks, while supporting the repair, maintenance and operation of existing networks.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

We're on the hunt for a talented, commercially savvy professional to help shape the future of our telecoms business. This role covers the entire contract lifecycle—from pre-award governance and negotiation to post-contract delivery and transformation.

In this role, you'll use your skills and extensive experience to manage and drive complex pre-contract negotiations to awards and successful outcomes. Once contract agreements crystalise, you'll dive into mobilisation activities, ensuring readiness by interpreting contractual obligations, managing changes, and addressing pricing and performance needs. You'll keep an eye on contract compliance, collaborating with teams to manage risks, resolve disputes, and optimise delivery. Leading and supporting contract negotiations will be key, balancing commercial interests with compliance while keeping stakeholders in the loop. Additionally, you'll conduct risk assessments, contract profiling, and pricing analysis to aid governance and decision-making. Driving value through proactive contract management and cross-functional collaboration is essential for success. You'll contribute to business transformation initiatives, improving service delivery, cost efficiency, and scalability. This includes performance reviews, commercial and operational analysis, and capacity planning. Your insights and reporting will inform strategic decisions and support continuous improvement. This is a hands-on role, working closely with senior leaders across the company—from finance and legal to operations and delivery. You'll provide clear advice and strong analysis.

What You’ll Bring

What you'll bring includes deep knowledge of telecoms, utilities, and regulated sectors, experience in managing contracts, leading negotiations, and driving performance, proficiency with tools like Excel, PowerPoint, Salesforce, and Power BI, ability to work well with others, handle change, and understand complex contracts, experience in delivering big projects, improving team workflows, and ensuring smooth service delivery from start to finish, confidence, clear-thinking, and leadership skills, and a thorough understanding of contracts, change management, and relationship-building. If you're ready to take on a key role in a fast-paced business, we'd love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you?

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

• 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
  
  

In addition, this role offers;

• 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
• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
  
  

About Us

We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. 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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