Senior Commercial Manager - Infrastructure

Responsibilities will be:

• Leading the development, implementation and ongoing enhancement of contract management strategies and improvement and promoting contract management best practices, standards, templates and assurance processes.
• Managing and mentoring a team responsible for strategic contract oversight and commercial governance.
• Defining governance frameworks, accountability structures and escalation processes for high-value and high-risk contracts.
• Overseeing post-award contract management activities including mobilisation, performance monitoring, risk management, change control and contract close-out.
• Providing expert oversight of NEC contracts, ensuring effective use of early warnings, compensation events, programme management and payment mechanisms.
• Supporting contract owners and suppliers in addressing performance issues and delivering value-for-money outcomes.
• Producing portfolio-level reporting and present recommendations to senior leadership and governance boards.

Skills and experience required:

• Proven experience developing and implementing contract management strategies, frameworks or improvement programmes.
• Experience overseeing portfolios of contracts and providing senior governance and assurance.
• Strong post-award NEC contract management expertise, including change management, compensation events, risk and payment processes.
• Demonstrable success in improving supplier performance and resolving complex contractual issues.
• Strong knowledge of commercial governance, procurement principles and contract management within regulated or public-sector environments.
• Degree, professional qualification or equivalent senior-level experience.

Benefits of the Senior Buyer role include:

• Up to 70,000
• Discretionary bonus
• PMI
• Up to 5% matched pension
• 27 days annual leave

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