Summary: The role of SC Cleared Commercial Manager involves managing various contractual and commercial topics for a leading Defence organization in Portsmouth. This hybrid position requires the individual to provide commercial support for complex bids, manage existing contracts, and negotiate agreements while ensuring compliance with governance and risk management. The successful candidate will work closely with stakeholders and the procurement team to deliver profitable solutions. Essential skills include negotiation, stakeholder management, and knowledge of the defence industry.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing Commercial support to complex bids which require innovation and creativity
- Ongoing management of contracts ranging in values and up to hundreds of millions
- Providing Commercial support to manage change on existing contracts
- Reviewing and Leading the negotiation of a variety of contractual agreements
- Working closely with and managing key stakeholders to deliver profitable solutions ensuring that Commercial risks are highlighted, mitigated and governance is followed
- Working with the procurement organisation to advise on key contractual obligations and risks, ensuring flow down of key terms
- Managing in accordance with company procedures and contractual requirements, to ensure efficient and accurate performance
- Developing relationship with customers to ensure smooth running of existing contracts
- Working flexibly to provide support to the wider business in order to provide commercial guidance and management
- Employing commercial best practice, efficiency and responsiveness within an ethical environment
Key Skills:
- Demonstrated experience within the commercial field
- Experience in a customer facing role
- Experience in a competitive bid situation
- Proven negotiation and contract management skills
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to interact and influence across a range of stakeholders
- Knowledge of the defence industry
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving ability
- Understands the principles of project management, risk management and finance
Salary (Rate): £48.00 Per Hour Umbrella
City: Portsmouth
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
We are recruiting for a SC Cleared Commercial Manager for a leading Defence organisation based in Portsmouth, this is a hybrid role with 3 days a week on site, 2 days WFH.
Responsibilities
Reporting directly to the UK Head of Department within the Commercial and Contracts function, you will be responsible for managing a range of Contractual and Commercial topics including:
- Providing Commercial support to complex bids which require innovation and creativity
- Ongoing management of contracts ranging in values and up to hundreds of millions
- Providing Commercial support to manage change on existing contracts
- Reviewing and Leading the negotiation of a variety of contractual agreements
- Working closely with and managing key stakeholders to deliver profitable solutions ensuring that Commercial risks are highlighted, mitigated and governance is followed
- Working with the procurement organisation to advise on key contractual obligations and risks, ensuring flow down of key terms
- Managing in accordance with company procedures and contractual requirements, to ensure efficient and accurate performance
- Developing relationship with customers to ensure smooth running of existing contracts
- Working flexibly to provide support to the wider business in order to provide commercial guidance and management
- Employing commercial best practice, efficiency and responsiveness within an ethical environment
Essential skills & experience:
- Demonstrated experience within the commercial field
- Experience in a customer facing role
- Experience in a competitive bid situation
- Proven negotiation and contract management skills
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to interact and influence across a range of stakeholders
- Knowledge of the defence industry
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving ability
- Understands the principles of project management, risk management and finance
Desirable skills & experience
- Cross-functional interaction with projects, finance, engineering and sales
- Experience working with the UK MOD on a range of proposals and contracts
- Knowledge of Single Source Regulations and contracting in accordance with the Defence Reform Act
- Experience in preparing and executing winning proposals
- A self-starter, capable of delivering a high quality complex workload with minimum supervision
- Experience in the subject of continuous improvement
This is an Umbrella contract, the role is Inside IR35