Head of Commercial in Birmingham

Base salary: £84,300pa to c.£112,987pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. This means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

The Head of Commercial is responsible for leading commercial activities within the Delivery teams. The role provides leadership to all HS2 commercial staff engaged in the management of the major infrastructure contracts required to deliver the HS2 vision. The role is also responsible for providing commercial input to procurement of these contracts and for co-ordinating and aligning commercial activities with other senior functional and delivery leaders within the Integrated Project Team (IPT), including supply chain.

• To be responsible for providing the appropriate commercial input to the development procurement and commercial strategies and package procurement plans for the major infrastructure contracts that are to be awarded to ensure affordability and value for money.
• To support the Procurement team in the development and delivery of tender and contract documentation including terms and conditions and associated commercial mechanisms, works and site information consistent with strategies and procurement plans.
• To support the development and execution of tender evaluation models and plans.
• To provide appropriate support in the evaluation, moderation and negotiation of tenders and to support the delivery of Contract award.
• To support the delivery of HS2 governance.
• To develop a contract management plan.
• To manage the major HS2 infrastructure contracts to maintain effective commercial control including assessment of variations and compensation events, contract payments, performance incentives, and final cost estimate updates.
• To support monthly MBR and contract performance reviews and other ad hoc reviews.
• To settle supply chain disputes.
• To provide day-to-day ad hoc contract and commercial advice to the client team.
• To lead the identification of opportunities for project savings and develop proposals/business cases for approval.
• To create a collaborative culture within the Integrated Project Teams (IPT) that encourages innovation, enhances functional capability, consistency of performance, maximises the benefits of knowledge sharing and embeds industry best practice across the organisation.
• To lead and review estimates (at all stages).
• To provide second corporate governance approval of change and risk draw down in accordance with corporate governance requirements.
• To lead commercial resources, agreeing objectives, managing performance and development to ensure staff have the necessary skills and support to deliver in their roles.
• To provide domain knowledge in the development and maintenance of efficient and effective contract and commercial management policies, processes and procedures.

Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

• Ability to lead and manage portfolios of high value and delivery critical contracts to deliver major complex infrastructure or similar projects and programmes.
• Ability to develop commercial and procurement strategies and plans for major and complex infrastructure projects.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective, value-driven commercial relationships with the supply chain.
• Ability to negotiate with both internal and external parties, to settle disputes whilst maintaining business-critical commercial relationships.
• The ability to manage diverse internal and external stakeholder parties to achieve successful project outcomes.
• The ability to develop and improve commercial policies, processes and procedures.
• The ability to lead, recruit and develop commercial teams in a complex organisation.

• Experience of leading commercial management teams in major complex infrastructure projects and programmes to deliver value for money for the Client/Employer.
• Experience of working with or for publicly funded bodies and/or a major publicly funded programme.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect. It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept. Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application; however, we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high-speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs. HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.