Senior Commercial Managers

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 130 countries worldwide.
Our team is dynamic, innovative and client-focused, supported by an inclusive and fun company culture. Our clients value our proactive approach, depth of expertise, integrity and the quality we deliver. As a result our people get to enjoy working on some of the most exciting projects in the world.

Within our southwest region our infrastructure team has strong positions in Highways, Utilities, Rail and Defence. Our people have the opportunity to move between sectors, building their experience across a broad range of major projects and programmes.

We are currently seeking applications from Senior Commercial Managers interested in working in the Defence Sector. Among a growing presence in the defence sector, Turner & Townsend is uniquely positioned as a Tier 1 supplier to the Defence Industry. Our opportunities range from supporting the redevelopment of critical defence infrastructure such as Devenport Dockyard to forming strategic commercial policy setting and delivery

As one of Turner & Townsend’s Senior Commercial Managers your role could include Contract Administration, Sourcing, Sales, Contract Management Disposals and Corporate activities.

We are seeking people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook, are seeking development opportunities and have a strong foundation of technical understanding in their core area of activity.

Job Objectives:

• Accountable for ensuring that commercial strategies contribute to cross organisation and departmental procurement agenda.
• Conducting commercial assurance of business cases, commercial strategies and contracting approaches, to ensure that sound commercial practices are being applied;
• Accountable for providing commercial service delivery within budget, on time, and for providing commercial inputs to the project schedule (project action tracker);
• Sits on Delivery Team Committee;
• Managing complex and business critical or strategically important negotiations;
• Examining risks to project commercial success and implements appropriate mitigations;
• Developing supplier management strategies in order to maximise commercial leverage; and
• Devising and develops the strategy for transition to contract management.
• Development and implementation of effective contract and supplier management strategies, to extract maximum value from contracts, motivate performance and drive innovation;
• Proactive monitoring and contract management, to deliver enduring thru-life value-for-money solutions;
• Monitoring supplier performance against KPIs, to deliver successful outcomes (time, cost, performance);
• Providing timely feedback on supplier performance issues, successes, and contractual risk to senior project leaders;
• Enforcing contracts through generating considerations, identifying performance trends and taking appropriate action, evaluating non-conformance, dispute resolution, and applying enforcement tools and remedies to secure consideration and compensation as appropriate

Required Skills:

• Significant experience of either Contract Management or Contract Placement (Sourcing) with some experience of the other, in single source and competitive markets.
• Identifying the most suitable commercial approach to the circumstance, including assessing the potential trade-offs and the level of risk mitigation required to achieve the best commercial outcome;
• Understanding and applying programme, portfolio and project management tools;
• Taking ownership of decisions at tender evaluation stage and applying commercial expertise and judgement accordingly; and
• Understanding and applying tools to monitor supplier performance including EVM, cost analysis, and contract related management information systems.
• Will have at least 10 years’ commercial experience;
• Significant experience leading teams and providing strategic direction;
• Commercial Functional competence and skills at Practitioner or Expert level, for pre-market, sourcing and post-award contract management
• The role has responsibility for dealing regularly with clients/customers on complex, controversial and contentious issues. The role will typically be able to chair internal and external meetings involving senior participants.

Qualifications

• A degree in Project Management, Commercial Management, Business, Law or equivalent;
• The role requires specific knowledge acquired by obtaining CIPS level 7 / Chartered status as well as additional in depth relevant work experience.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Please find out more about us atwww.turnerandtownsend.com/

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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