Commercial Manager

Salary starting from £62k, salary depending on skills and experience Anglian Water offers a flexible approach;could be in Peterborough, Lincoln or Norwich - depending on your location. this role offers you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your based location As a Commercial Manager, you will play a fundamental role in refining the commercial function across specific delivery routes within Central Services, ensuring robust processes, clear financial oversight, and strong contractual governance is in place. You will manage day-to-day commercial activities, providing direction and expertise to ensure that the financial implications of contracts are well understood and effectively managed by all stakeholders. With a focus on maximising value and minimising cost, you will implement and maintain appropriate controls to monitor performance and optimise the operating cost base.The role will also see you developing and implementing assurance strategies tailored to business needs, identifying areas of non-compliance, and driving timely, effective improvements. You will take ownership of risk management activities, maintaining risk registers, facilitating reviews, and coordinating mitigation plans with key stakeholders. Alongside this, you will develop and maintain performance dashboards, reports, and registers to provide clear insight and support informed decision-making.You'llspecific delivery routes within Central Services, ensuring that robust processes, policies, and controls are in place to effectively manage contracts and financial performance. A significant part of the role involves overseeing daily commercial activities, including contract financials, final accounts, and audits, while embedding consistent processes and supporting delivery teams to manage budgets and respond to variances. take ownership of the end-to-end commercial management of You will work closely with operational teams to drive performance against commercial targets, maximising cash flow, negotiating with key suppliers, and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of commercial data. The role also includes producing insightful reporting, maintaining financial profiles, and leading regular performance reviews to track progress and inform decision-making.Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle. We'reYou'll bring strong commercial and contractual expertise, ideally with experience across NEC contract options, and a proven track record of delivering successful outcomes in complex environments. looking for a highly organised and proactive Commercial Manager who can balance strategic thinking with practical delivery. With a self-motivated, "can do" attitude, you'll be comfortable managing your own workload as well as coordinating others, anticipating challenges early and taking decisive action. Alongside this, you'll be detail-focused, customer-oriented, and confident using Microsoft tools to support analysis and reporting, underpinned by a degree-level qualification or equivalent experience. To be successful in this role, you'll have: Experience similar role at a strategic or senior level This is an opportunity to play a key role in shaping and driving commercial performance across Central Services, where your work will have a direct impact on business outcomes and long-term value. You'll be trusted to lead on high-profile commercial activities, influence strategic decisions, and work closely with a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation.The role offers real variety and challenge, from managing complex contracts and negotiations to driving efficiencies, improving processes, and strengthening commercial controls. You'll also have the chance to build strong relationships across operational and leadership teams, positioning yourself as a valued commercial partner.Alongside this, you'll be part of a forward-thinking environment that encourages continuous improvement, giving you the platform to develop your skills, expand your experience, and progress your career within a supportive and collaborative team.We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we'll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team 'To apply, you'll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter - tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.If you are offered a job with us, you'll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. 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