Commissioning Manager

We're working with a boutique agency with big growth plans to appoint an experienced Commissioning Manager on a permanent basis.

With a growing pipeline of work across the UK and Europe, this is an opportunity for a genuine commissioning professional to join an ambitious business at an exciting stage of its development.

We're looking for a bona fide commissioning specialist - someone who understands the commissioning process inside out and has a proven track record of managing commissions from brief through to delivery.

You’ll be responsible for taking ownership of commissioning activity across a range of projects, working with stakeholders, suppliers, contributors and internal teams to ensure every commission is well planned, efficiently managed and delivered to the required standard.

This is not a general project management role with some commissioning responsibilities attached.

Commissioning is the core of the role.

You’ll need to be comfortable managing the detail, navigating stakeholders, solving problems quickly and keeping multiple commissions moving at pace.

We're looking for someone with substantial professional commissioning experience.

You’ll ideally have:

• A proven track record in a dedicated commissioning role
• Strong knowledge of commissioning processes, workflows and best practice
• Experience managing commissions from initial brief through to completion
• Excellent stakeholder and supplier management skills
• Strong negotiation and organisational abilities
• The confidence to manage multiple commissions and deadlines simultaneously
• Exceptional attention to detail
• The ability to anticipate issues and find practical solutions
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• The judgement and autonomy to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment

We're not looking for someone who has simply worked alongside commissioning. You should be able to demonstrate genuine, hands-on commissioning expertise and understand what good commissioning looks like at every stage.

You’ll be joining a boutique business with serious growth ambitions, rather than a large corporate environment where you can become one of many.

The agency already has a strong pipeline across the UK and Europe, with further growth planned. You’ll have the opportunity to take real ownership, work closely with senior stakeholders and play an important role as the business scales.

The role is permanent and can be based anywhere in the UK.

If you’re an experienced commissioning professional looking for a role where your expertise will be genuinely valued - and where you can help shape a growing business - we’d like to hear from you.