Head of Commercial - Coventry, United Kingdom - Cadent Gas

Cadent Gas

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Coventry, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Head of Commercial - Capital Delivery

Contract Type:
Permanent

Location:
Hybrid working with a travel across our networks

Salary:
£75,000-£85,000 depending on experience

At Cadent we're excited to be part of the future of UK energy We've got a clear roadmap that will both drive our performance to the forefront of our industry and support the UK government in achieving their net zero target by 2050.

We're making a difference through innovation and new ways of working.

Together we're shaping/creating a cleaner, greener future for our 11 million customers who we put at the heart of everything we do.

About The Role
As Head of Commercial you will be accountable for managing the overall contracts portfolio within Cadent's network.

Below is a list of the general requirements of the role;

Accountable for managing the overall portfolio of contracts within the COO function
Seeks winwin outcomes by establishing and working towards common goals
Ensuring that that the overall capability and capacity of the function is appropriate to deliver the immediate and longterm business plan and organisation goals
Promoting a positive safety culture through visible proactive, consistent and influential behaviours
Lead and manage all aspects of your team including people, processes and systems
Calculates the impact of their actions or words and seeks to influence and engage collaboratively
Adapts their approach to suit the audience, anticipating and preparing for their reaction
Ensure company values are understood and upheld and those high standards of safety, engagement and wellbeing are engendered
Proactively looks forward beyond "in year" to ensure the maximisation of opportunities through being flexible and agile in changing markets and internal demands
Create forecasting models, assess risk and ensure all activities comply with regulations and company policy
Manage and positively develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders through the professionalism, reliability and consistency of actions
Design and deliver diversity and inclusion approaches which create a shared purpose within the organisation

Key Accountabilities

Accountability of all Commercial contract management across our operational business areas
Driving commercial value through all operational business areas supporting the efficient, effective and agile delivery of our business plans
Leading the Contract management teams who are aligned to business areas and ensuring that best practice, innovation and efficiency rationale is applied consistently
Best utilising the existing skills which exists within our teams, developing improved core competencies within our team and creating a high performing and effective Commercial Contract Management Approach
Positively engage with our supply chain partners to create "win win" solutions and aligned objectives which deliver our business plan
Responsible for reducing total operational costs, improving supplier resilience, building relationships to develop a more informed view of our supply chain partners, reviewing procurement arrangements frequently to ensure that they are effective and meeting current requirements
Working closely with central procurement team to ensure that all procurement processes are commercially informed, operationally endorsed and compliant with EU Procurement regulations
Reporting to the Director of Commercial, the Head of Commercial Contract Management will be directly responsible for the strategic oversight of all our commercial contract activity and our need to improve contract management controls through robust and effective management information
Ensure that contract management disciplines are agile develop future contracting strategies
Ensuring that we have a current data set of all existing frameworks, who is active within them, what volume / type of activity is undertaken with each supply chain partner within them and most importantly a data driven assessment of performance and, in particular, contract management performance in line with contractual KPI or equivalent measures
Working in collaboration with central procurement to ensure that operational and commercial input is supporting our overarching procurement plan
Maintaining a view of works programmes and required activity with our operational business areas and ensuring that our operational frameworks are appropriate to meet those requirements
Advising, supporting and remediating any system and process requirements to support the effective delivery of the role
Engaging collaboratively with many internal stakeholders to influence procurement activity
Develop a supplier database which allows us to build upon our supply chain partner relationships for mutual benefit; develop a view of supply chain partner resilience, criticality and performance
Move us to be industry leading on supply chain contract management
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