Head of Commercial Contracts UK&E

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Head of Commercial Contracts – Serco UK&Europe

Base office: Hook – Hampshire, with flexible working options

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Here at Serco, we are excited to share a brand new role created to set the strategy and direction of the Commercial Contracts team and lead a highly engaged team of commercial contracts professionals in support of and in alignment with Divisional and Business Unit strategy, objectives, and priorities.

The role holder will be accountable for the development and continuous improvement of commercial contracts processes, culture, and ways of working and assurance of contract compliance and resolution of key commercial and contractual issues.

About You

You will have demonstrable examples of your experience to build and maintain strong, trusted, respected and purposeful relationships with internal and external customer commercial teams that enable and influence successful outcomes.

You will be fluent in your experience of balancing commercial, technical and legal requirements to achieve successful outcomes. With an attention to detail, you will be confident to manage risk and be able to present influencing cases of where risk may be acceptable or the business should review its position.

Equipped with strong negotiation skills, you will be comfortable to challenge, be challenged but all the while keeping a balance of relationships and the objectives to be achieved. Your ability to adopt robust commercial positions whilst maintaining trusted, respected, and effective relationships will be pivotal in evolving the commercial contracts culture and deliverables to the UK & Europe business. You will hold leadership skills that are demonstrable in managing a remote team, delivering high performance and collaborating as necessary to achieve objectives together.

Driving and implementing change with a mindset of continuous improvement is a key requirement to succeed in this role. You will be confident to demonstrate your ability to influence change through being a strong communicator accompanied with your critical thinking.

Your experience of working with public sector businesses across Local and Central Government would be advantageous although not essential.

Why Serco?

Meaningful and vital work: In this leadership position, you’ll set the strategy and direction for Commercial Contracts, with the support of a highly collaborative team.

A world of opportunity: Working for a globally operating business delivering essential services across 5 vital sectors, personal growth, achievement and development won’t be hard to find.

Great people: You’ll find yourself working in a highly motivated, supportive environment where no two days are the same, with experienced colleagues who strive for excellence.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary per annum
• Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• An autonomous, supportive and flexible-working culture
• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
  

About Serco

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

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Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly a Disability Confident level 3 employer and holder of the Silver Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.