Senior Commercial Officer

JR United Kingdom; Bedford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering company based in Bedford is seeking a talented Senior Commercial Officer. You will manage key bid processes, negotiate contracts, and provide strategic advice. This full-time position offers a competitive salary of up to £50,000 plus excellent benefits including private health insurance, a generous pension scheme, and 26 days of annual leave. Join a successful and skilled team in an exciting office-based environment.

Benefits

Private health insurance

Generous pension scheme

Share incentive plan

26 days' annual leave

Free parking

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Proven commercial, operational, or business experience in a technical setting.
• Strong customer engagement and commercial management skills.
• Solid understanding of business strategy and opportunity alignment.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of key bid processes.
• Direct customer engagement and contract negotiation.
• Support and advice to senior internal stakeholders.
• Input into commercial strategy and pricing.
• Prepare high quality proposals for customer submission.

Skills

Commercial management skills

Customer engagement

Analytical skills

Negotiation skills

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Tools

Microsoft Excel

MS Office applications

Job description

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Robert Half are working with a Leading Engineering Business based in Bedford to recruit for a talented Senior Commercial Officer. We are looking to recruit an experienced, confident and self-motivated Senior Commercial Officer to join a awesome commercial team.

This is an office based role, Full time paying circa £50,000 plus very good benefits and a generous pension This is an exciting permanent opportunity for the right person to be part of a successful and highly skilled engineering company.

Robert Half are working with a Leading Engineering Business based in Bedford to recruit for a talented Senior Commercial Officer. We are looking to recruit an experienced, confident and self-motivated Senior Commercial Officer to join a awesome commercial team.

This is an office based role, Full time paying circa £50,000 plus very good benefits and a generous pension This is an exciting permanent opportunity for the right person to be part of a successful and highly skilled engineering company.

Role Summary

Demonstrating at all times a high level of integrity and able to influence management information effectively, you will be involved in ensuring that proposals to customers are priced, developed and approved in an acceptable manner to submit the associated offers, as well as negotiating, agreeing and supporting contracts that provide a robust commercial framework to enable and deliver best of class capabilities to customers.

This is a varied and demanding role and it involves a number of duties and responsibilities:

• Ownership of key bid processes

• Direct customer engagement and contract negotiation

• Support and advice to senior internal stakeholders

• Input into commercial strategy and pricing

• Governance and risk management awareness

• Prepare high quality proposals for customer submission and conduct/support contract negotiations with customers

• Support contract closure.

Experience required

• Proven commercial, operational, or business experience, ideally in a technical setting

• Strong customer engagement and commercial management skills

• Solid understanding of business strategy and opportunity alignment

• Strong analytical skills

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other MS Office applications

What's on offer

• Competitive salary up to £50K (DOE)

• Private health insurance & generous pension scheme

• Share incentive plan

• 26 days' annual leave + bank holidays (increases with service)

• Free parking

• Employee assistance programme

• Full-time, 38-hour week

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