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Commercial Manager
M Group Ltd
Brighton, GBR
Full-time
Mid · 140+ years experience
Hybrid
Discovered 2 weeks ago
Full Job Posting
- 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. This role will be within our Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment. Want to be a part of it? What will you be doing? As the Commercial Manager (Pre-Contract), you'll play a pivotal role in setting projects up for commercial success from day one. Working closely with senior commercial leaders, operational teams, clients and supply chain partners, you'll help shape contract strategies, influence procurement decisions, and ensure robust commercial controls are established from the outset. You'll lead or support pre-contract activities including contract briefings, developing commercial guidance, defining measurement and reporting requirements, and working with Procurement teams throughout the tendering process. You'll also support supplier evaluations, contract award recommendations, and manage TUPE-related commercial considerations where required. Once projects are underway, you'll take ownership of key commercial processes, ensuring valuations, applications, change management and contractual obligations are managed accurately and in line with contract requirements. You'll oversee certifications, notices, cash collection processes, Early Warnings and Compensation Events, while providing commercial guidance and support to operational teams and acting as an escalation point for contractual issues and disputes. You'll maintain strong commercial control across the supply chain, validating cost information, overseeing subcontractor onboarding and governance, managing payments and accounts, and driving the resolution of commercial issues. Working collaboratively with supply chain partners, you'll identify opportunities to maximise value, recover costs and reduce commercial risk. A key part of the role will involve maintaining accurate and compliant commercial records, ensuring all valuations, payments, notices, risks, opportunities and contract documentation are effectively managed and readily accessible for audit and assurance purposes. You'll also play a leading role in contract performance management, producing and reviewing forecasts, cashflow reporting and CVRs, providing clear insight into project performance, and helping operational teams understand and manage commercial risks and opportunities. Through close collaboration with clients, you'll support KPI and SLA performance management to help secure successful commercial outcomes. Alongside managing your own responsibilities, you'll provide leadership and direction to junior commercial team members, helping to maintain high standards, develop capability and drive commercial best practice across the business. What you’ll bring Do you hve a degree in Quantity Surveying or related discipline, or equivalent experience? Desirable : Other skills, experience, qualifications and professional memberships that will help you grow with us: Do you have a professional accreditation such as RICS or CICES, or working towards? Have you got a good understanding of procurement processes and frameworks? Do you have experience working on large, complex or multi-site programmes? Are you someone who has familiarity with ERP or financial reporting systems? Have you got experience with SLAs, KPIs and performance-based contracts? Do you have exposure to dispute resolution and negotiations? Have you got an understanding of inflation impacts and forecasting approaches? 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; 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 Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us! 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 Health Care Cash Plan, giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more! Private Healthcare - family cover 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays Discretionary bonus scheme 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 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding. #MGroupW #LI-LK1 IND
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