Principal Commercial Partner

As part of the Commercial Partnering team, AWE is seeking a Principal Commercial Partner to act as the primary interface between the Commercial function and a Business Unit, Programme, or Enabling Function, providing commercial leadership and guidance throughout business case development, including Make Team Buy inputs, and develops commercial strategies aligned with Category Strategies to secure value, manage risk, and deliver business objectives.

Commercial Partnering works closely with Business Units to shape demand at the earliest stages, maintaining an integrated forward pipeline of requirements and ensuring future product and service needs are translated into clear commercial strategies and sourcing requirements. Package: £63,270 to £90,000 (depending on experience)

Location:

Reading, with free onsite parking. Visits to Aldermaston and/or Burghfield. Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight, with every other Friday as a non-working day. This role is eligible for hybrid working, meaning employees typically spend three days on site in a long week and two days on site in a short week. Ready to play your part? At AWE, it's not just a job, it's far more than that.

Our shared purpose is to help keep the nation safe. Could this role be the opportunity for you to play your part? The Principal Commercial Partner will provide leadership, people management and serve as the Commercial function's primary interface with the Business Unit, Programme or Enabling Function. They will strengthen commercial awareness, position Commercial as a strategic partner and collaborate with stakeholders to develop solutions that inform the commercial strategy delivered by the Commercial Delivery Towers.

They will agree demand plans for Commercial and understand & constructively challenge business requirements to ensure effective and often complex commercially viable solutions are implemented. They also play a pivotal role in ensuring that the Business Unit, Programme or Enabling Function understands the role of Commercial in developing and implementing supply chain solutions which deliver most value for the Business Unit or Programme.

The role will report into the Head of Commercial Partnering.

Key Accountabilities:

Ensures alignment and collaboration between Commercial and the Business Unit, Programme or Enabling Function to identify the demand plan and drive value for money though effective commercial strategy and prioritisation planning. Ensure an effective handshake between the programme and the Commercial function on the pipeline of activity to be delivered. Leads commercial solutioning for the Business Unit, Programme or Enabling Function, including Make Team, Buy recommendations, total cost of ownership considerations etc.,

with early involvement in all key commercial decisions, working closely with the Business Unit or Programme Director and their senior leadership team. Ensures alignment and collaboration between Commercial and the Business Unit, Programme or Enabling Function to identify the demand plan and drive value for money though effective commercial strategy and prioritisation planning. Ensure an effective handshake between the programme and the Commercial function on the pipeline of activity to be delivered.

Leads commercial solutioning for the Business Unit, Programme or Enabling Function, including Make Team, Buy recommendations, total cost of ownership considerations etc.,

with early involvement in all key commercial decisions, working closely with the Business Unit or Programme Director and their senior leadership team. Who are we looking for? We are ideally seeking an individual with a high level of commercial acumen, seven to ten years of Commercial and Procurement…