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?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
As a Senior Commercial Manager, you will play a key leadership role within both the Commercial Team and the wider contract leadership team. You will be responsible for driving commercial performance, managing risk and opportunity, and ensuring the successful delivery of commercial objectives across the contract. The role requires the provision of accurate, timely commercial information that supports operational and strategic decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement commercial strategies that achieve budget targets and maximise profitability.
- Lead, manage and develop the commercial team, providing direction and support to ensure high performance.
- Identify, manage and mitigate commercial risks while maximising opportunities.
- Ensure all commercial reporting processes are completed accurately and in line with company requirements.
- Oversee cost and value reporting across the contract.
- Act as the primary commercial contact for clients, suppliers and subcontractors, managing contractual, legal and financial matters.
- Collaborate with operational and technical teams to provide commercial insight and support informed decision-making.
- Ensure contractual arrangements comply with legislative, regulatory and corporate governance requirements.
- Continuously review and improve commercial procedures, systems and best practice.
- Develop and manage project-specific commercial strategies.
- Work closely with the leadership team to support delivery of the contract's operational strategy.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with client representatives through regular engagement.
- Ensure robust commercial governance is applied to all tendering activities.
- Review forecasts, financial performance and contract value reconciliations.
- Stay informed of industry developments and changes in commercial legislation.
Skills and Experience
We're looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Extensive experience managing the commercial aspects of high-volume, low-value contracts, including repair and maintenance, metering and developer services.
- Proven success as a Commercial Manager or Senior Commercial Manager within utilities, rail, highways or a similar infrastructure environment.
- Strong procurement, contract and financial management expertise.
- Experience working with civil engineering forms of contract.
- A track record of managing subcontractor and supplier relationships.
- The ability to lead commercial activities on complex, high-value and long-term contracts.
- Strong commercial judgement and the ability to provide expert guidance to technical and operational teams.
- Experience developing and implementing commercial frameworks, controls and governance processes.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Quantity Surveying or another relevant construction-related discipline.
- Membership of RICS, CICES or CIOB is desirable but not essential.
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
- Private health care for you and your family plus health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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 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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