Commercial Manager - Construction

Commercial Manager - Construction

Who are we?

We are United Utilities, the North West's water and Wastewater Company. It's our job to bring 3.0 million households and thousands of businesses an incredible 1,700 million litres of clean, clear water each day. We take it all away too, treating it so it's safe to go back into the rivers.

Our 5,000 employees are key to achieving our ambitious vision and plans and we all work together to provide a great service to our customers.

This is where you come in

We have an exciting opportunity for a Commercial Manager to join our Commercial/Engineering/Capital Delivery team at our Head Office in Warrington.

Working closely with the Head of Programmes this role has end-to-end Commercial responsibility for all major construction projects that are delivered to your regional hub - you will manage a commercial team of cross functional business personnel, to deliver batches of projects and business requirements across the commercial function department on workload, as well as providing a value added customer service to the Water and Wastewater business in the form of a trusted advisor to its senior business leaders.

What will you focus on?

• Accountable for managing the pre and post contract commercial performance of all project delivered in your Hub
• Drives performance of contracts and suppliers throughout the contract life cycle
• Deliver innovation and value for money through continuous development of the commercial function including best practice contract assurance, supplier relationship management, total cost management, process efficiency/compliance, external bench-marking of best practice
• Motivate, manage, coach and develop an Area Commercial Team as required in line with specific development needs
• Provide commercial expertise and guidance to key stakeholders
• Understand and contribute to business strategy and policy through category planning & stakeholder influencing
• Negotiating contractual agreements with external providers to ensure the service, quality, added value, total cost management and security of supply
• Proactively manage and mitigate commercial and business risk
• Negotiating contractual agreements with external providers to ensure the service, quality, added value, total cost management and security of supply
• Provide an effective pre and post contract management service to ensure that all duties specifically delegated to the Commercial function under the contract are carried out

What do you need?

• Quantity Surveying degree or equivalent, with a relevant post-graduate qualification (eg: CIPS,RICS, MBA, MSC) preferable
• Chartered Membership of a relevant institution (eg Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Institution of Civil Engineers or equivalent)
• A demonstrable track record of providing leadership and management to a commercial team.
• Must have end-to-end management experience of construction programmes to include commercial and contract management, implementing new commercial relationships cross functional and business boundaries and a quantifiable track record of savings delivery and change implementation
• Must have knowledge of key procurement processes, tools and methodologies used by leading edge procurement practitioners.
• Must have knowledge of techniques for implementing commercial agreements in a complex and rapidly changing environment
• The ability to influence at senior management levels to embrace and support the strategic agenda is essential.
• Strong impact and influencing skills and ability to engage with senior managers and other key stakeholders in a meaningful way so that they buy in to new approaches to commercial management.
• Strong commercial acumen, negotiation and resolution skills.
• Demonstrable track record in continuous improvement techniques and development of processes and procedures to support the Contract Assurance model to improve cost to serve.

We'd love to hear from you if you are excited about joining a leading FTSE100 organisation at an exciting and challenging period of change. Working from our head office where you will find innovative science labs and award winning contact centres, along with onsite free parking and a free bus service, restaurants and coffee shops, beautiful gardens and lake and discounted onsite gym and much more!

Rullion celebrates and supports diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for both employees and applicants.