Senior Commercial Manager

at  Balfour Beatty

About the role
We have a fantastic opportunity for a talented and experienced Senior Commercial Manager to join our Rail Team in London.
You will work closely with the Programme Director and Finance Manager for the region and other functions in the leadership team to deliver a turnover of c£100m a year.
BB Rail have strong relationships with their key clients including Network Rail, Transport for London and internal Balfour Beatty Businesses. The successful candidate will proactively manage relationships to ensure these relationships are maintained.
In your role as Commercial Lead, you will supervise a commercial team of 35 surveyors, providing support and guidance on their job responsibilities. The role requires ensuring internal governance is adhered to through all stages of the project lifecycle and projects are delivered to budget and margins are maximised.
This role requires an individual with proven commercial experience that can lead across all elements of the project lifecycle from work winning to project delivery, understanding technical issues, actively managing people and aiding in the whole team’s development.

What you’ll be doing

• Supervise a commercial team of 35 surveyors
• Coordination of buying, accounts, production control/planning, supply chain management & procurement techniques, estimating & surveying functions.
• Management and reporting of Commercial Risk and Opportunity.
• Establish client supply chain requirements & advise on alternative forms of contract & procurement arrangements.
• Manage the preparation of the monthly CVR and associated commercial reports.
• Report and explain the commercial progress to senior divisional staff.
• Manage feedback of commercial data to Planning, Estimating, Marketing and Sales.
• Formulate management plans for resource procurement.
• Support the review tenders & cost data.

What you’ll be doing

• Supervise a commercial team of 35 surveyors
• Coordination of buying, accounts, production control/planning, supply chain management & procurement techniques, estimating & surveying functions.
• Management and reporting of Commercial Risk and Opportunity.
• Establish client supply chain requirements & advise on alternative forms of contract & procurement arrangements.
• Manage the preparation of the monthly CVR and associated commercial reports.
• Report and explain the commercial progress to senior divisional staff.
• Manage feedback of commercial data to Planning, Estimating, Marketing and Sales.
• Formulate management plans for resource procurement.
• Support the review tenders & cost data

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more