Third Parties - Senior Commercial Manager

Description

• Develop agreement principles and provide instruction to legal for drafting.
• To be responsible for leading team members, agreeing objectives, managing performance and development to ensure staff have the necessary skills and support to deliver in their roles.
• Undertake assurance activity across a portfolio of awarded agreements throughout the agreement life cycle.
• Provide subject matter expertise into other Directorates within HS2.
• Secure ‘buy-in’ and support from Internal teams in responding to challenge and scrutiny.
• Work with Third Parties to enhance HS2 scope for regional benefit, where feasible to do so.
• To be responsible for providing second key corporate governance approval on cost, variations and risk in accordance with corporate governance requirements.
• To be responsible for providing domain knowledge in the development and maintenance of efficient and effective contract and commercial management policies, processes and procedures.
• Establish collaborative ways of working with Third Party stakeholders assisting in brokering, negotiating and delivering schemes that interact with the HS2 programme.
• Lead the development and assessment of commercial models and strategies for/with third parties to ensure effective risk management, value for money and compliance with governmental guidelines.
• Embed agreements within relevant business teams, ensuring contract management plans are in place and are being effectively managed.
• 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.
• To be accountable for delivering on input into contract level performance information into monthly MBR reports;
• Manage a portfolio of complex and bespoke Commercial Agreements with Third Parties, ensuring alignment with the HS2 Commercial Strategy and overall HS2 objectives, including the delivery of wider benefits.
• Evaluating and negotiating Commercial Agreements with Third Parties Post Agreement.
• To be accountable for supporting the settlement of supply chain disputes;
• Represent HS2 at forums conducted by external Third Parties where decision making is required on maximising HS2 as a catalyst for growth.
• To be responsible for leading the negotiation of strategies for additional commercial agreements and variations to existing agreements.
• To be accountable for managing and supporting agreed external relationships with strategic stakeholders by agreeing joint ways of working that maximise opportunity for both HS2 and Third Parties.
• Engage with other HS2 Directorates to identify requirements for third party agreements and to devise programmes for delivery and implementation.
• Manage interfaces with Delivery (and other) procurements and with broader CCO directorate, to influence delivery strategies and to ensure requirements of Commercial Agreements are appropriately shared with contractors.

Requirements

• Skilled in developing stakeholder engagement programmes.
• Able to manage political ambiguity within the project engagement workstreams.
• Skilled in managing the complex dynamic that exists in matrix organisations by demonstrating the ability to influence others to emulate the right behaviours.
• Experience of managing commercial management teams in major complex infrastructure projects and programmes to deliver value for money for the Client/Employer.
• Be proactive at promoting core behaviours including innovation, agile management techniques, lean, flexibility collaboration and commercial awareness.
• Experience of building strong working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of providing counsel at a senior leadership level across an organisation.
• Prioritisation – Able to work to tight deadlines in a calm manner even in a fast moving organisation.
• Experience of high-profile stakeholder management with public and/or private sector organisations.
• Ability to network, influence and build collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders – in particular with large public and private sector organisations.
• Ability to deliver value driven management of commercial relationships with Third Parties.
• Ability to develop, manage and administer high value and delivery critical contracts to support the delivery of complex infrastructure or similar projects and programmes.
• Either experience of procurement of services or the management of large value complex contracts or providing client relationship management during the planning stage of infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrate leadership, promoting collaboration across teams, with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience of working with or for publicly funded bodies and/or a major publicly funded programme.
• Strong analytical, commercial and negotiating skills and the ability to settle disputes whilst maintaining business critical commercial relationships.
• Experience of implementing innovative solutions in complex partnerships to broker agreements.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance