Commercial Manager

Commercial Manager

Location: Warrington, Cheshire, WA3 6YD

Work arrangement: Hybrid (minimum 3 days onsite)

Role type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72766

Compensation: Attractive Salary + Benefits

As a Commercial Manager, you'll provide end to end commercial leadership across contracts and projects within our Nuclear Defence Support programme. Working closely with project teams, clients and suppliers, you'll shape commercial strategy, manage risk and ensure strong governance throughout the contract lifecycle.

Day to day, you'll balance strategic oversight with hands on delivery, supporting bids, managing complex change and driving value for both Cavendish Nuclear and our customers. In doing so, you'll strengthen your commercial leadership capability while contributing to programmes that matter to national defence and long term security.

Responsibilities

• Providing commercial leadership and guidance across complex contracts, projects and bids
• Developing and driving risk based commercial strategies in collaboration with project teams
• Managing commercial governance, compliance and performance on large scale contracts
• Building and sustaining strong commercial relationships with customers and supply chain partners
• Acting as the escalation point for high risk or complex commercial issues

Essential Experience

• Extensive commercial management experience within complex engineering or infrastructure environments
• Strong track record delivering commercial strategy on large, high value contracts and bids
• Proven experience working with NEC contracts, particularly NEC3
• Demonstrated ability to manage commercial risk, change and governance effectively
• Experience influencing stakeholders and negotiating successfully at senior levels

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Building Services Quantity Surveying or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
• Membership of a relevant professional body such as RICS or World Commerce and Contracting is desirable

Benefits

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This window opens February through to March annually.
• 'Be Kind Day' enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Employment Equity Statement

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.