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Ref: QP183-369
Job description / Role
The Commercial Manager is responsible for leading bids in the delivery of best practice commercial governance and the application of the Management System in a clear and consistent manner with innovative solutions appropriate to client requirements and risk. In addition the Commercial Manager's primary objective is to achieve contract signature of commercial agreement that represents a sensible commercial deal and positions the delivery team to be able to achieve the anticipated margin on the contract.
Requirements
Knowledge
* Related degree or equivalent experience.
* High level knowledge, understanding and demonstrable adoption of governing principles.
* Strong technical grasp of bidding, commercial dialogue, contract drafting, negotiating and being the commercial lead on large complex bids.
* Strong and demonstrable skills of working with a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of working in a multi-site organisation.
Skills
* Familiar with varying contract structures and principles.
* Experienced / advanced ability in the reviewing, drafting and negotiating of small to medium contracts / agreements.
* Experienced in bonds, guarantees, letter of credit, and other financial instruments applicable.
* Experienced in procuring project specific insurances.
* Ability to demonstrate an understanding and adoption of governing principles.
* Experience of bidding and large operational projects.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Is able to provide innovative solutions to complex commercial and contractual problems.
* Is able to negotiate to win, compromise, mediate opposing views and resolve conflict.
* Is able to influence and motivate when recommending a course of action.
* Is able to gain customer trust, set expectations, and accommodate requests but also diplomatically decline unreasonable demands.
* Is able to work equally well at a detailed level and at a strategic level, as required.
About the Company
We recruit the very best talent for middle management positions across a range of functions and sectors. Think you've heard all that before? Read on.
We're here to make recruitment better. Better for our clients, our candidates and our own recruitment professionals.
We build relationships, not databases, and add real value that helps organisations and individuals grow. We are a team of functional and sector specialists delivering a genuinely consultative service that is underpinned by the depth of both our market knowledge and the client & candidate networks we have built.
Our clients love it. And as a result, we are one of the fastest-growing professional recruitment groups on the planet. Whether you're hiring or changing jobs yourself, you can't afford to get it wrong.
Argyll Scott will ensure you get it right.