Commercial Manager - Pre-Contract
- Employer
- Undisclosed Company
- Location
- Warrington, Cheshire
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Closing date
- 9 Oct 2024
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- Sector
- Engineering
- Job Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full-time
Job Title: Commercial Manager - Pre-Contract
Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59046
At Cavendish Nuclear we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Commercial Manager at our Warrington site.
The role
As a Commercial Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This offers an excellent opportunity to support business growth across our Nuclear Services and Civil Decommissioning business streams through the provision of pre-contract commercial support.
Day-to-day, you'll act as commercial lead on agreed bids (within bid team). Covers a range of offerings from major projects to service and consultancy within civil nuclear industry. Role will supplement existing pre-contract capability within the business streams.
- Provision of commercial and contractual support and advice across designated projects, working closely with bid teams.
- Ensure the winning of good business - successful tenders which balance risk and reward.
- Lead ensuring that any submissions are compliant with corporate governance procedures.
- Negotiate customer contracts and work closely with Procurement to ensure flow down of key terms.
- Derive commercial solutions to bid requirements such as commercial tender query responses, KPIs, pricing schedules.
- Generate bids showing appropriate margin returns with credible delivery plans.
- Agree arrangements with customers and partners, such as NDAs and MOUs, liaising closely with Legal. Taking a leading role in establishing Joint Ventures where applicable
- Support analysis of competitors, customers, and supply chain to ensure winning tenders
This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in our Warrington office and two days working from home, amongst occasional travel across a range of internal and customer sites.
Essential experience of the Commercial Manager
- Experience of working within highly regulated industries
- Experience of NEC3/4 contracts, preferably the ECC (Engineering & Construction Contract)
- Experience with Government customers / PCRs (Public Contract Regulations)
- Customer facing experience (unable to consider anyone with subcontractor / supplier facing experience only)
- Significant pre-contract experience, capable of autonomously leading bids from a commercial perspective
- Sound understanding of contract terms and conditions / contract law, contract and commercial risk management, and estimating / financial aspects of bids
Qualifications for the Commercial Manager
- Quantity Surveying or Business related degree or equivalent qualifications
We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. F
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive ten-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Autonomy to perform the role
- Opportunities to develop your career
Cavendish Nuclear
As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we're innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group - from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 11/10/2024
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