Commercial Manager in Cardiff

Location: Cardiff on site at least 3 days per week, with some hybrid working permitted

Direct Reports: None

Job summary

We are seeking a motivated, results-driven Commerial Manager with scheduling experience to help drive revenue growth and efficiency and increase our brand visibility in a competitive market.The successful candidate will assist with developing bids and tenders and provide scheduling expertise to help develop operationally robust, compliant and cost-effective solutions. You will work closely with Operations, Engineering, Commercial and Finance colleagues to ensure proposals are deliverable and aligned with business objectives.

Main Responsibilities

• Monitor tendering platforms for commercial opportunities and tenders
• Review tender requirements and develop compliant timetable solutions that are customer focused, operational robust and reliable and efficient.
• Coordinate all tender requirements and ensure bids are submitted by deadline.
• Produce vehicle workings and driver duties and rotas that are efficient and compliant to the scheduled agreements.
• Ensure proposed timetables and schedules are efficient and operationally robust and reliable
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reliability and resource utilisation.
• Produce the scheduling outputs and costing information required to populate the bid model and data templates for submission with the bid
• Contribute to bid reviews, presentations and stakeholder meetings as required.
• Contribute to the business growth plan by establishing efficiencies within existing scheduling and driver rotas.
• Monitor performance and be the key accounts contact for local authority contracts
• Monitor and report KPI’s (including but not limited to punctuality, service delivery, lost mileage, driver hour efficiency, daily performance reports etc) and provide key insights and actions needed.
• Contribute to any action plans for improvement where required.
• Ensure project deadlines and key milestones are achieved.
• Update ticketer with scheduled timetable or duty changes.
• Update bushub and ticketer with any fare structure changes.
• Update DAS payroll system with any duty changes.
• Management of Transxchange files and ensuring their compliance and compatibility with local authority requirements.

(The duties listed above are not exhaustive)

• An experienced scheduler with experience of one or more scheduling software packages.
• Significant experience in timetable development, vehicle scheduling and driver scheduling.
• Experience in contributing to tenders and bids.
• Ability to interpret operational data and develop practical scheduling solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong ability to read and comprehend complex tender information and translate it into a high-quality solution
• Excellent written and spoken English with the ability to communicate clearly and at all levels.
• Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work well under pressure.
• Must be proactive, methodical and results orientated.
• Highly organised, motivated and able to prioritise workloads.
• Ability to manage own workload effectively and work to strict deadlines.
• Ability to use initiative and identify solutions when a problem or difficult situation arises.
• Ability to demonstrate credibility to build professional relationships with both employees and managers.
• Ability to collate and interpret raw operational data.
• Able to build lasting relationships with internal and external stakeholders and customers.
• A team player and willing to develop others to increase team and individual performance.

Hours of work: 40 hours per week Monday to Friday

The Equality Act : Adventure Travel is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment with due regard to legal obligations for protected characteristics i.e. age, disability, marriage and civil partnership, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion and belief, sex and sexual orientation.