Job category: Change

My client is looking for an experienced Commercial Contracts Manager that has demonstrable experience as a Contracts Manager within the commercial sector.

The purpose of the role is to provide high-quality commercial function and ensure all relevant key performances are followed across commercial lead area. We are looking for someone either at a mid-level or a more senior level.

The duties include: to draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements and documents. To include B2B good and service agreements predominantly within Energy, Infrastructure and Construction.

The role will also play an important part of working on a large Merger and Acquisition project that involves multi-million-pound projects.

This is commercial contracts only and you will have experience of NEC3 or NEC4 and comfortable with working on multiple contracts at any one time. You will be writing the contracts through to completion with assistance from other company departments, looking at the commercials and the legalities but not the pricing side as this is handled by the finance team. The contracts are then passed to the operational team.

The role offers a hybrid way of working, two days in the office and three days working from home every week. There is plenty of local parking and the office is a short walk from a train station. A competitive salary, fantastic company benefits and a positive and supportive working environment.

This is an exciting time to join a fast-growing, highly successful business with plenty of future career opportunities!

Skills/experience and attributes required:

• Minimum of 7-10 years’ experience for associate level or 10 plus years’ experience for the senior level
• Degree educated
• Experience of drafting and writing commercial contracts is essential
• Experience of working in the Infrastructure/Energy or Construction industry is desirable
• Experience of NEC3 or NEC4 is essential
• Experience of BEAME is nice to have but not at all essential as training will be provided
• Strong Excel and Word skills
• Strong collaborator
• Analytical mind with a high attention to detail
• Strong stakeholder management
• Outstanding communicator, verbally and written
• Professional and articulate
• Clear presentation skills
• Good listener to understand the needs of the customer and colleagues
• Good negotiation and rapport building skills
• Organised with strong prioritisation sills

The role will be account managing large public sector customers/businesses and b2b experience will be essential for this role.

You will be building strong relationships with the customers via Teams and face to face meetings, also communicating over the phone and via email. Compile reports, fact finding and investigative work along with look for other new business opportunities/cross-selling within the account that can be passed into other specialist departments. You will already possess some account management experience and enjoy warm sales and working towards targets whilst working towards KPI’s and SLAs. The team is small but extremely busy and you would be part of a much wider sales division.

There is a lot of opportunity to build your career, learn new skills and industry and be part of a positive, supportive and fast growing medium sized business.

There is hybrid working on offer with a salary of up to £35,000 and an OTE of up to £50,000 per annum. Excellent benefits, great training and a positive, professional and fun working environment.

Skills/experience/attributes:

• Minimum of two years’ experience as an Account Manager or in a Business Development role that included some account management
• Experience working with the Public Sector would be highly desirable and any understanding of their budgets/frameworks
• Experience within the Energy industry is desirable
• Strong relationship building and customer service experience, face to face and over the phone
• Comfortable and enjoys striving to work towards targets
• Solid experience of Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Teams
• Experience of working on an internal CRM
• A natural salesperson with the ability to spot new business opportunities
• Productive with time and highly organised
• Outstanding communication skills, verbally and written
• Ability to look at the root cause and to think outside the box