Commercial Contracts Manager

Commercial Contracts Manager - Contract

• 6 months contract
• Inside IR35
• Must be based in North of England
• Hybrid working model

Job Summary: Accountable for comprehensive commercial management of key customer and supplier accounts throughout the contract lifecycle. This includes overseeing commercial performance, managing contract changes, ensuring compliance, and driving revenue growth. The role requires collaboration across multiple business areas and direct engagement with customers and suppliers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manages the end-to-end commercial performance of major contracts, in-life management to renewal/extension or termination.
• Ensure all contractual obligations, deliverables, and key milestones are tracked, documented, and achieved
• Draft, review, negotiate and manages contract terms to safeguard the organization's commercial interests.
• Maintain accurate contract documentation, including conformance records, asset registers, and audit trails
• Act as the key link between finance and commercial teams, ensuring alignment on pricing governance processes.
• Collaborate with legal teams to ensure contracts comply with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Identify and mitigate potential risks through proactive contract management strategies.
• Implement risk management processes to track, assess, and mitigate contractual risks.
• Drive continuous improvement in commercial processes, ensuring efficiency and compliance.
• Identify opportunities for contract variations or upselling, maximising the value of existing agreements.
• Evaluate and qualify commercial implications of customer or supplier-driven or internal changes to in-life contract.

Key Attributes:

• Analytical Skills: Ability to manipulate and analyse data, and make informed decisions
• Commercial Management - Substantial understanding of contract law, risk management, and commercial principles and best practices.
• Contract Management - Strong experience with commercial contracts and contract negotiations.
• Strong Stakeholder management -Ability to identify and manage stakeholder relationships, working cross-functionally and maintaining communications with other stakeholders, building effective and collaborative relationships
• Substantial experience in managing complex commercial and contractual models.
• * Effective negotiation skills, with experience engaging at all organizational levels.
• * Ability to draft contractual documents, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies.
• * Commercial awareness with the ability to drive value and resolve challenging issues.
• Critical Thinking: Ability to solve challenges and suggest interventions to improve performance and ways of working.
• Decision Making- Applies sound judgement to resolve complex issues, balance competing priorities and drive effective outcomes in a fast-paced environment
• Negotiation skills - Demonstrate strong negotiating skills to influence outcomes, resolve complex issues and secure mutually beneficial agreements with customers and stakeholder
• Communication Skills: Strong communication skills with the ability to influence senior-level internal and external colleagues.
• Collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications:

• Substantial Experience in structuring and managing highly complex commercial models and contracts.
• Substantial experience in NEC contracts and the construction and installations industries
• In-depth understanding of industry regulations and compliance requirements.
• Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Law or a related field preferred.
• Further commercial, contract or procurement qualifications optional but valuable

Please apply to the advert for more information.

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