Our Business Support teams deliver the vital services to ensure the continued success of our business divisions. These services include HR, Finance, Procurement, Marketing, Legal and Commercial, Estates and Facilities, Core Technology, Corporate Security, IT, and Fleet. Every person in every team is contributing the lasting impact our Team makes. Help build and keep the nation's critical infrastructure connected and protected 24/7.
Reporting to the Commercial Lead, the Commercial Manager will work closely with the Legal and Commercial team(s), as well as the wider telent Project team to help provide commercial support and expertise to help ensure telent is exercising its obligations fully in line with the contractual requirements across our Asset Management function.
This is a hybrid working role, with a requirement to be in our Warwick HQ 1 day per week.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the development and delivery of commercial and sourcing strategies aligned to business objectives, ensuring value optimisation and risk mitigation.
- Conduct robust pre-procurement market analysis to inform strategic decision-making and sourcing approaches.
- Provide expert commercial input into project planning, business cases, and governance processes to support successful approvals and delivery.
- Own supplier relationship management and contract administration, ensuring high performance across the full contract lifecycle.
- Ensure full compliance with relevant legislation, internal governance, and contractual obligations on behalf of clients and stakeholders.
- Provide authoritative commercial advice to business teams, including the evaluation of change requests and associated cost and contractual impacts.
- Oversee financial and commercial controls, including invoicing, cost validation, forecasting, year-end processes, and monthly reporting to clients.
- Lead, develop, and performance-manage a commercial team, setting clear direction, objectives, and driving a high-performance culture.
Who you are:
You are a commercially driven professional with proven experience managing contracts, costs, and commercial risk in complex project environments, ideally within the Telecoms / Utilities / Transport or Civil Engineering industries.
Key Requirements:
- Proven experience in a commercial management role within a relevant industry
- Strong knowledge of contract management, ideally including NEC and/or other standard form
- contracts
- Experience managing commercial risk, cost control, forecasting, and margin improvement
- Strong negotiation skills with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders
- Commercial awareness with the ability to identify opportunities for value creation and cost efficiency
- Excellent analytical and financial acumen, including reporting and data-driven decision making
- Ability to work under pressure, manage competing priorities, and meet deadlines
- High level of integrity, accountability, and attention to detail
What we offer:
A career at Telent can span many sectors, roles, technologies and clients giving you the opportunity to develop, learn new skills and make an impact. We are growing and we rely on our committed Team to deliver.
We nurture the talent that makes this happen, by our on-going commitment to creating an inclusive culture that respects and values difference, that celebrates diverse ideas. We want everyone to feel they can be themselves and to thrive at work.
The additional benefits with this role:
- Car Allowance
- 34 days holiday, including public holidays, plus the option to buy or sell days annually OR 26 days holiday, plus public holidays, and the option to buy or sell days annually
- Company pension scheme
- A range of family friendly policies
- Occupational health support and wellbeing Portal
- Discounts on Cinema, Restaurants and Shopping with Telent Reward scheme.
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We’re passionate about creating an environment that champions diversity and inclusion, where everyone feels they belong, can be themselves and empowered to reach their full potential. People are at the heart of our business, and we believe that our teams should reflect the diverse experiences and backgrounds of the communities we support.
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