Assistant Commercial Manager

Originally named, Great British Nuclear,
Great British Energy
- Nuclear is an arm's length body of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, dedicated to supporting the development and deployment of new nuclear technologies in Great Britain. We play a crucial role in advancing nuclear new build, ensuring the UK's energy security and achieving net-zero carbon emissions. Great British Energy
- Nuclear focuses on fostering innovation, facilitating investment, and coordinating efforts across the nuclear industry to build a resilient and sustainable energy future.

The Assistant Commercial Manager (ACM) role will be accountable to the Commercial Lead and Commercial Manager for the delivery of first-class commercial activity and advice across GBE-N major project procurements, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation and GBE-N Commercial policies, negotiating and managing contracts to achieve value for money.

The ACM will be accountable to the Commercial Manager and Commercial Lead for managing key aspects of procurement activity (e.g. ITT development / Pricing strategy / negotiation strategy/ drafting contracts) to support the delivery of major procurements. It is therefore expected that the Assistant Commercial Manager has experience in managing procurements more than £5m across the whole procurement lifecycle and/or experience in working as part of a team to manage the delivery of discreet aspects as part of a team delivering a complex major procurement.

The value of the procurement activity which the ACM will be required to support will likely exceed £100m or otherwise be novel, contentious or repercussive in nature.

Please note, you will be required to occasionally travel to either our Warrington and/or London office.

A full job description is available and attached to this job advert.

• The Assistant Commercial Manager will support the Commercial Manager and Commercial Lead in the development of commercial ("what are we buying") and procurement ("how are we buying") strategies.

• The Assistant Commercial Manager will apply their knowledge and understanding to support development of commercial policy, procedures and templates, including maintaining the commercial policy 'library'.

• The Assistant Commercial Manager will support assurance activities to ensure activity across the commercial lifecycle is controlled and aligned with relevant policies, commercial strategies and relevant security requirements. This may include operational and risk management reviews as well as supporting any internal and/or external audits.

• The Assistant Commercial Manager will support analysis required on key supplier markets to understand the key characteristics of the nuclear and related marketplaces to ensure adequate competition exists to continue to drive value for money.

• The Assistant Commercial Manager will work as part of a wider team and be accountable for the delivery of key aspects of procurement activities at all stages of the procurement process from tender initiation to contract award and supplier mobilisation.

• Planning and delivering results under tight timelines
• Supporting a culture that builds trust, integrity and values diversity and expertise
• Working and adapting with stakeholders at all levels
• Communicating with impact and challenging respectfully
• Be curious and work constructively with team members and stakeholders to get activity completed
• Knowledge and experience of working with complex procurements, of a value more than £5 million is required
• Experi…