Location
London (Rail Systems team)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. This means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and offering personal and professional development opportunities. The Commercial Manager is responsible for delivering commercial activities within the Delivery teams. The role works alongside the supply chain and contractors within the development delivery teams, assuring and supporting their commercial activities to provide an independent view to the Head of Commercial.

Key responsibilities include:
- Providing commercial assurance to the Head of Commercial of all Delivery commercial activities (HS2 & Supply Chain).
- Delivering commercial and contract management of contracts to maintain effective commercial control.
- Administering the obligations of the Project Manager under the NEC3 Contract, including assessment of variations, compensation events, contract payments and performance incentives.
- Maintaining effective cost verification.
- Reviewing and analysing supply chain monthly reports to drive performance.
- Inputting contract level performance information into monthly MBR reports.
- Participating in monthly contract and programme performance reviews and other ad hoc reviews, supporting final cost estimate updates.
- Supporting the settlement of supply chain disputes.
- Providing day-to-day ad hoc contract and commercial advice to the client team.
- Providing commercial assessment of opportunities for project savings and supporting the development of associated proposals and business cases.
- Supporting the development of a collaborative culture within the Integrated Project Team (IPT) that encourages innovation, enhances functional capability, creates consistency of performance, maximises knowledge sharing and embeds industry best practice.
- Supporting commercial relationships and engagement with key contractors.
- Reviewing estimates at all stages.

Leadership responsibilities:
- Leading and reviewing estimates.
- Providing second key corporate governance approval of change and risk draw down in accordance with corporate governance requirements.
- Leading commercial resources, agreeing objectives, managing performance and development to ensure staff have the necessary skills and support.
- Providing domain knowledge in the development and maintenance of efficient and effective contract and commercial management policies, processes and procedures.

Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work and support compliance with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Experience
- Managing commercial management team members in infrastructure projects and programmes.
- Working with or for publicly funded bodies and/or publicly funded projects.
- Planning, developing and implementing infrastructure contracts.
- Collaborating with procurement teams in tender preparation, administration and evaluation.
- Using commercial management and reporting systems.

The post-holder is expected to behave consistently with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect and actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).

About You
- Ability to manage and administer high value and delivery critical contracts for major complex infrastructure or similar projects and programmes.
- Ability to develop commercial strategies and plans on capital projects.
- Ability to support the development and management of effective, value-driven commercial relationships with the supply chain.
- Ability to support negotiations with internal and external parties and settle disputes.
- Ability to manage stakeholder parties to achieve successful project outcomes.
- Ability to develop commercial policies, processes and procedures.
- Ability to support the development of commercial teams.
- Demonstrated contract, commercial and risk management skills.

Qualifications
Not explicitly stated; however, relevant experience and skills in commercial management within infrastructure projects are essential.