Rate:                    £70-87p/ hr UMB – Inside IR 35
Location:             Glasgow – 3 days onsite/ 2 days WFH
Duration:             12 months initially
Requirements:    UK passport holder living and working in the UK for the past 5 years
  
Key Responsibilities
  

• Provide commercial expertise and guidance to project staff and other project commercial staff
• Undertake internal compliance, liaising with the relevant Head of Commercial and customers as required
• Provide Commercial lead and guidance to contracts/project(s)/bids as required and set the overall direction the Commercial staff
• Work with the Head of Commercial and relevant project/contract/bid teams to develop and drive a risk based commercial strategy
• Participate as a key project member Team to drive performance
• Develop key external commercial customer relationships
• Act as ‘champion’ for the communication and embedding commercial guidance and expertise, initiatives, policies and procedures across the relevant project teams
• Act as a role model, consultant and ‘commercial’ coach to the project teams to ensure consistency of approach in commercial awareness, and developing and maintaining positive relationships
• Act as an escalation point within the relevant project for high risk, complex commercial issues
• Support the budget management process by providing input into project reporting for the business’ and commercial P&L
• Raise key commercial issues with higher management through both line management and functional management lines
• Leading Self: Is a role model, demonstrating The Company’s principles, promoting health, safety and wellbeing, respect and inclusion
• Leading Others: Owns the performance and development of their team members, including effective and ongoing communication and feedback
• Leading Resources: Responsible for effective planning and organisation of resources to deliver on customer promises

Accountabilities:

• Provision of robust commercial management and commercial input into the delivery strategy to meet performance targets
• Input to commercial policy, programmes, projects, methodologies and solutions in support of relevant projects ensuring consistency of approach
• Execution of commercial policy, programmes and projects across the relevant projects
• Delivery of high-quality bid Gate documentation and commercial aspects of relevant bids ensuring balance of protect the business and growing the business through risk based commercial contribution
• Ensuring compliance with the commercial governance requirements, commercial innovation in bids and contracts
• Influencing positive employee relations within the project commercial function, to maintain and improve business output requirements and deliver increased employee engagement
• The provision of timely and accurate commercial management information, as required, in support of bid/no bid decisions and bidding where relevant

Experience/Qualifications/Skills
Essential:

• Educated to degree level with Law degree or Quantity Surveyor qualification, or equivalent qualification or relevant experience
• Significant generalist commercial experience, demonstrating proven track record in delivering on accountabilities, and more specifically on driving the commercial agenda
• Proven track record of delivering significant contribution to project commercial strategy, and to delivering robust commercial management on large and complex contracts and bids
• Proven success in commercially managing large-scale projects and complex change initiatives using appropriate methodologies
• Experience in providing commercial specialist input into bids and contracts
• Demonstrable evidence of developing and sustaining positive working relationships including the ability to negotiate and to influence customer commercial strategy
• People management experience and commercial consultancy expertise
• Excellent NEC3 skills Desirable:
• Evidence of cross-Business Unit networking, delivering speedy and proactive commercial advice and knowledge sharing
• Experience in developing commercial and line management capability

  
  
Minimum level of Qualifications to be verified
(*N.B. only qualifications essential to the requirements of the role need to be checked)
Educated to degree level with Law degree or Quantity Surveyor qualification, or equivalent
qualification or relevant experience