Third Parties - Senior Commercial Manager

Third Parties - Senior Commercial Manager

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Base salary: £54,878pa to c.£64,562pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% paid on top of the base salary, which is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits — check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

• Manage a portfolio of complex and bespoke commercial agreements with third parties, ensuring alignment with the HS2 commercial strategy and overall HS2 objectives, including the delivery of wider benefits.
• Engage with other HS2 directorates to identify requirements for third‑party agreements and devise programmes for delivery and implementation.
• Provide subject‑matter expertise to other directorates within HS2.
• Undertake assurance activity across a portfolio of awarded agreements throughout the agreement life cycle.
• Establish collaborative ways of working with third‑party stakeholders, assisting in brokering, negotiating and delivering schemes that interact with the HS2 programme.

• Lead the development and assessment of commercial models and strategies for/with third parties to ensure effective risk management, value for money and compliance with governmental guidelines.
• Secure ‘buy‑in’ and support from internal teams when responding to challenge and scrutiny.
• Manage interfaces with delivery (and other) procurements and the broader CCO directorate to influence delivery strategies and ensure commercial agreement requirements are appropriately shared with contractors.
• Develop agreement principles and provide instruction to legal for drafting.
• Evaluate and negotiate commercial agreements with third parties post‑agreement.
• Embed agreements within relevant business teams, ensuring contract management plans are in place and effectively managed.
• Lead the negotiation of strategies for additional commercial agreements and variations to existing agreements.
• Accountable for delivering contract‑level performance information into monthly M  reports.
• Support the settlement of supply chain disputes.

• Provide second‑key corporate governance approval on cost, variations and risk in accordance with corporate governance requirements.
• Provide domain knowledge in the development and maintenance of efficient and effective contract and commercial management policies, processes and procedures.
• Manage and support agreed external relationships with strategic stakeholders, agreeing joint ways of working that maximise opportunity for both HS2 and third parties.
• Represent HS2 at forums conducted by external third parties where decision making is required.
• Work with third parties to enhance HS2 scope for regional benefit where feasible.
• Lead team members, agreeing objectives, managing performance and development to ensure staff have the necessary skills and support to deliver in their roles.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, supporting and complying with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

• Ability to develop, manage and administer high‑value and delivery‑critical contracts to support the delivery of complex infrastructure or similar projects and programmes.
• Strong analytical, commercial and negotiating skills and the ability to settle disputes whilst maintaining business‑critical commercial relationships.
• Ability to deliver value‑driven management of commercial relationships with third parties.
• Skilled in developing stakeholder engagement programmes.
• Ability to network, influence and build collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including large public and private sector organisations.
• Demonstrate leadership, promoting…