Senior Commercial Manager (various locations)

Westlakes Recruit are currently recruiting for Senior Commercial Managers to be engaged on a permanent basis. Candidates will ideally be based in the South East region and will be working on major defence scope. Hybrid working will be supported.

Job Objectives
* Accountable for ensuring that commercial strategies contribute to cross government and departmental procurement agenda;
* Conducting commercial assurance of business cases, commercial strategies and contracting approaches, to ensure that sound commercial practices are being applied;
* Accountable for providing commercial service delivery within budget, on time, and for providing commercial inputs to the project schedule (project action tracker);
* Managing complex and business critical or strategically important negotiations;
* Examining risks to project commercial success and implements appropriate mitigations;
* Developing supplier management strategies in order to maximise commercial leverage; and
* Devising and develops the strategy for transition to contract management.
* Development and implementation of effective contract and supplier management strategies, to extract maximum value from contracts, motivate performance and drive innovation;
* Proactive monitoring and contract management, to deliver enduring thru-life value-for-money solutions;
* Monitoring supplier performance against KPIs, to deliver successful outcomes (time, cost, performance);
* Providing timely feedback on supplier performance issues, successes, and contractual risk to senior project leaders;
* Enforcing contracts through generating considerations, identifying performance trends and taking appropriate action, evaluating non-conformance, dispute resolution, and applying enforcement tools and remedies to secure consideration and compensation as appropriate; and
* Conducting peer contract assurance prior to internal client approvals, ensuring the correct commercial policy has been implemented

Required Skills
* Significant experience of Procurement, Contract Management or Contract Placement (sourcing) with some experience of the other, in single source and competitive markets.
* Identifying the most suitable commercial approach to the circumstance, including assessing the potential trade-offs and the level of risk mitigation required to achieve the best commercial outcome;
* Understanding and applying programme, portfolio and project management tools;
* Taking ownership of decisions at tender evaluation stage and applying commercial expertise and judgement accordingly; and
* Understanding and applying tools to monitor supplier performance including EVM, cost analysis, and contract related management information systems.
* Will have at least 10 years' commercial experience;
* Experience leading teams and providing strategic direction;
* Commercial Functional competence and skills at Practitioner or Expert level, for pre-market, sourcing and post-award contract management
* The role has responsibility for dealing regularly with clients/customers on complex, controversial and contentious issues. The role will typically be able to chair internal and external meetings involving senior participants.

Desirable Experience
* Single source/direct award procurements
* UK Public Contracts Regulations 2015
* NEC contract knowledge and experience would be a nice to have

Qualifications
* A degree in Project Management, Commercial Management, Business, Law or equivalent;
* The role requires specific knowledge acquired by obtaining CIPS 6/7 level
chartered status as well as additional in-depth relevant work experience.

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