Commercial Manager

We're looking for a Commercial Manager to join our Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks team based in Bridgwater

Location: Bridgwater, Somerset 

Hours: 40 hours per week – some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Commercial Manager, you'll be supporting our major environmental project, Bridgwater Tidal Barrier, to help manage the commercial, procurement and financial aspect of the project. 

Your day to day will include:

• Work closely with the wider Senior Leadership Team to advise on commercial strategy
• Seek and implement effective risk management and mitigation strategies to achieve targeted commercial outcomes
• Check, collate and sign off on the work of staff, collate high level commercial reports across the region and present to board level 
• Manage commercial staff across the project
• Ensuring at all times the Company's governance and any contract specific requirements are adhered too 

What are we looking for?

This role of Commercial Manager is great for you if you hold:

• Hold a Degree or equivalent in Quantity Surveying
• Demonstrate lengthy experience in a senior commercial capacity within a Tier 1 main contracting environment, managing teams of significant size
• Chartered Status in relevant professional body or appropriate professional qualification 
• Excellent overall contractual awareness with strong understanding of NEC, JCT conditions, arbitration and adjudication processes
• Strong commercial reporting track record, ability to produce board level reports to the region accurately outlining the business commercial position, risks and opportunities 
• Experience in developing and implementing wider commercial strategies to drive work winning, business unit growth and profitability
• Experience in procurement and working alongside procurement strategy to implement programme and business procurement strategy goals
• High level technical, communication and IT skills
• Proven advanced self-management skills 

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits
We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier