Commercial Manager
Role Overview
Delivers commercial activities in HS2 delivery teams and provides an independent assurance view to the Head of Commercial.
Works with supply-chain and contractor teams to assure and support commercial activities.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Delivers commercial activities in HS2 delivery teams and provides an independent assurance view to the Head of Commercial.
Works with supply-chain and contractor teams to assure and support commercial activities.
Commercial delivery
- Deliver commercial and contract management to maintain effective commercial control.
- Administer Project Manager obligations under the NEC3 Contract, including assessment of variations, compensation events, contract payments, and performance incentives.
- Maintain cost verification; analyse monthly supply-chain reports; and provide contract-level performance information for monthly MBR reports.
- Contribute to contract and programme performance reviews, ad hoc reviews, and final cost estimate updates.
- Support supply-chain dispute settlement and provide day-to-day contract and commercial advice to client teams.
- Assess project savings opportunities and develop proposals or business cases for approval.
- Support collaborative team culture, innovation, knowledge sharing, consistent performance, and industry best practice.
- Maintain relationships and engagement with key contractors.
- Lead and review estimates and provide corporate governance approval of change and risk drawdown.
Leadership
- Lead commercial resources, agree objectives, and manage staff performance and development.
- Provide domain knowledge to develop and maintain effective contract and commercial management policies, processes, and procedures.
Skills and experience
- Ability to manage and administer high-value, delivery-critical contracts on major complex infrastructure projects and programmes.
- Ability to develop commercial strategies and plans for capital projects and manage value-driven supply-chain relationships.
- Ability to support negotiations, settle disputes, manage stakeholders, develop commercial policies and teams, and apply contract, commercial, and risk management skills.
- Experience managing commercial team members on infrastructure projects or programmes.
- Experience working with or for publicly funded bodies or projects.
- Experience planning, developing, and implementing infrastructure contracts and working with procurement teams on tender preparation, administration, and evaluation.
- Experience using commercial management and reporting systems.
Conduct and inclusion
Promote and embed equality, diversity, and inclusion and comply with organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures.
The post-holder is expected to act consistently with HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity, and Respect.
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