Assistant Commercial Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Cadent

Cadent

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

**Description

Assistant Commercial Specialist

Base Location - London - Hybrid

Role Type - Permanent

£30,962 - £36,426 DOE (Plus London Weighting of between £1352-£5382 dependent upon your location)
Here at Cadent we're at the start of an exciting journey of transformation, growth and evolution. We're new but we're 200 years old. (You might have known us as part of National Grid but now we've transformed ourselves to Cadent).

We're the UK's largestgas network connecting and keeping energy flowing to our customer's 12 million homes and businesses across the UK.

We're proud of our story so far and we're super powered up about what our future holds.

That's where you come inJoin us as an Assistant Commercial Specialistand start a transformation journey adding real purpose and direction to your career and feelgenuinely proud about what you do.

About the Role

To support commercial and cost management activities across our internal operations and / or collaborative operations with Contractors to ensure costs are managed, controlled and reported appropriately.

Supporting investment decisions / works and drivingvalue through contract and commercial arrangements.

Key Accountabilities

Alongside the above you'll be responsible for:

Supporting the provision of cost and commercial control across our operations
Carrying out cost reporting to deliver comprehensive information on internal and / or Contractor performance and value
Using contractual cost measures and targets for Contractor activities to conduct continuous forecasting and monitoring
Ensuring costs are managed through reporting, communication and management processes
Ensuring unit costs are managed through reporting, communication and management processes
Auditing and investigating internal activities and / or Contractor activities when required in order to provide assurance and demonstrate that regulatory reporting is underpinned by effective cost control
Ensuring payments and claims are within contract terms
Providing challenge to claims for compensation events based on quantitative analysis
Ensuring variations to budget are identified, reported and addressed / rectified
Assessing the scope and nature of additional or oneoff work or variations
Supporting the costing of works and / or challenging costings / price from Contractors
Providing costing / pricing options based on scope parameters
Supporting benchmarking activities to ensure Cadent's arrangements and Contractor costs remain competitive

About You
You will possess the following skills, knowledge and qualifications:

Educated to Degree or equivalent in a commercial discipline and relevant commercial/contract experience (or equivalent level of experience)
Knowledge of unit cost / commercial principles and methodologies
Cost modelling skills
Auditing skills
Understanding of key commercial, regulatory and economic drivers
Ability to interpret and analyse financial information
Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, negotiate and work collaboratively, engaging and developing valueadding relationships with a wide range of audiences at all levels (internal and external)
A track record of delivering high quality outputs on time against demanding timescales
Excellent team working skills, and a proactive approach to problem solving