Commercial Manager - Warwick, United Kingdom - Pontoon

Pontoon

Verified Company

Warwick, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Commercial Manager
6 months
Warwick - 2 days per week on-site (hybrid working)

My client is an international electricity and gas company and one of the largest investor owned Energy companies in the world.

They play a vital role in delivering gas and electricity to many millions of people across Great Britain and North-Eastern US in anefficient, reliable and safe manner.

Job Purpose:

Support commercial activities on divestment programmes to ensure contracts are fit for purpose for transitional periods and post separation
Provide contract commercial expertise to project and service teams to facilitate the sourcing process, of information technology based contracts.
Take ownership of the contract(s), lead contract negotiations and drafting of contracts.
Handle contract fulfillment through the ongoing management and support of the contractual and commercial aspects, including change management. This includes managed service and individual supplier agreements across the global organization.
Analyze and manage (commercial) risks,and ensure contract and commercial quality.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide commercial support to divestment programmes, including:
Reviewing and analyzing existing contracts and agreements to determine treatments required to support divestment activities
Liaise to agree and action contracts treatments
Provide contract support, including:
Design overall commercial model (commercial terms and conditions) and where required ongoing governance processes.
Analyze and manage (commercial) risks
Negotiate contracts, including:
Plan and organize the negotiation strategy and lead the negotiation execution
Coordinate with internal stakeholders i.e. professional departments and execute the contract review and decision making sub processes;
Analyze and manage (commercial) risks

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Identify and report key issues to senior management;
Carry out contract due diligence analysis (i.e. evaluate supplier status);
Draft contract documents:
Prepare draft and final versions of main body, annexes and related documents for signing;
Coordinate the internal signoff process and closing of contracts in accordance with the authorization levels set;
Notify relevant stakeholders of the contract signing.
Contract and commercial management and fulfillment, including:
Design overall commercial model ongoing governance processes.
Manage and maintain appropriate contractual relationships to optimise contract value through a consistent, professional approach.
Deliver commercial and financial clarity for each supplier contract to ensure transparency of spend
Assist in the definition, implementation and management of contract and commercial management processes to drive consistency and efficiency across the IS and supplier organizations.
Ensure that the agreed governance processes are managed across the IS organization and delivering commercially as developed.
Develop and maintain effective and commercially oriented relationships with a wide range of vendors varying in size, geography, skillset and cost, in order to drive value through individual and collaboration of partner organisations.

Knowledge and Experience Required:

Expertise in contract management of large enterprise wide IS Managed Service Agreements
A working experience in the at least one of the following industries: Software and Solution Delivery, Enterprise Services, Telecoms and Networks Services.
A good understanding of legal constructs in complex contracts and experience of contract interpretation and agreement.
Knowledge and experience of stakeholder management and relationship management building, driving commercial value and performance through major contracts
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, capable of leading teams and influencing a contractor at senior levels, and gaining support and commitment from a wider operational group.
Knowledge and experience of negotiation and influencing stakeholders and suppliers
Ability to communicate with all levels up to senior management internally and externally within supplier organisations
Skilled at working with and through multiregional/global teams
Ability to define and measure benefits, including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding ability to make decisions or recommendations on incomplete information
Knowledge of the Global IS Operating model and the key functions and interdependencies
An understanding of market/supplier dynamics in the wider IS market place

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers and contractors.

The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer