Third Parties - Senior Commercial Manager

Base salary: £59,268pa - c.£69,727pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and 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.

The Third Parties - Senior Commercial Manager role is responsible for delivering Commercial and Stakeholder Management activity with Internal Customer teams across their commercial & agreement interfaces with Third Parties (external to HS2

Ltd.) The role provides leadership to HS2 staff within the broader Third Parties Commercial Team in their management of Internal Customers, external Third Parties and the development of agreements to ensure the functional strategy is effectively delivered. The role is responsible for supporting the Third Parties Head of Commercial to enable delivery of the HS2 Scheme to cost and schedule through the management of Third Party commercial & contractual interfaces.

• 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 to devise programmes for delivery and implementation.
• Provide subject matter expertise into 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 in responding to challenge and scrutiny.
• Manage interfaces with Delivery (and other) procurements and with broader CCO directorate, to influence delivery strategies and to ensure requirements of Commercial Agreements are appropriately shared with contractors.
• Develop agreement principles and provide instruction to legal for drafting.
• Evaluating and negotiating Commercial Agreements with Third Parties Post Agreement.
• Embed agreements within relevant business teams, ensuring contract management plans are in place and are being effectively managed.
• To be responsible for leading the negotiation of strategies for additional commercial agreements and variations to existing agreements.
• To be accountable for delivering on input into contract level performance information into monthly M  reports;
• To be accountable for supporting the settlement of supply chain disputes;

• Embed agreements within relevant business teams, ensuring contract management plans are in place and are being effectively managed.
• To be responsible for leading the negotiation of strategies for additional commercial agreements and variations to existing agreements.
• To be accountable for delivering on input into contract level performance information into monthly M  reports;
• To be accountable for supporting the settlement of supply chain disputes;

• To be responsible for providing second key corporate governance approval on cost, variations and risk…