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As a Commercial Manager at Mitie, you will play a pivotal role in driving the commercial success of a major construction framework. You'll provide strategic commercial leadership, ensuring robust contract management, strong financial governance, and intelligent commercial decision‑making. Working closely with colleagues across operations, finance, procurement, project controls and senior leadership—as well as with external clients and suppliers—you will directly influence profitability, client satisfaction, and the long-term performance of the framework.
We're looking for someone who brings proactive thinking, sound judgement, and a solutions-focused approach to managing commercial risk and opportunity. This is an exciting opportunity to join Mitie in a role that blends strategic influence with hands-on commercial delivery.
Key responsibilities:
1. Develop and deliver commercial strategies aligned to business objectives, contract requirements, and client needs.
2. Ensure full contract compliance while proactively identifying and managing commercial risks and opportunities.
3. Administer NEC3/NEC4 contracts, including change control, compensation events, KPIs, and applications for payment.
4. Manage financial governance processes, including CVRs, forecasting, budgeting, and margin reporting.
5. Act as a trusted commercial partner, collaborating closely with internal teams and maintaining strong relationships with clients and supply chain partners.
6. Represent the commercial function in audits, client reviews, and strategic meetings.
7. Support procurement activity, ensuring subcontractor agreements are commercially robust and well‑priced.
8. Oversee subcontract administration from valuations through to final accounts.
9. Lead and develop the commercial team while supporting commercial capability across the wider operational function.
About you:
10. Significant experience in commercial management with a strong track record working with NEC or similar contract models.
11. Proven ability to manage multiple high‑value, complex contracts across different clients.
12. Strong financial skills with experience in forecasting, budgeting, reporting, and governance.
13. Confident leader with experience managing and developing teams.
14. Degree‑level qualification (or equivalent experience) and able to obtain SC clearance.
15. Ideally experienced in civil, mechanical, or electrical disciplines, with exposure to the nuclear sector and public sector procurement.
16. Commercially astute with excellent negotiation, problem‑solving, and contract interpretation skills.
17. Strong communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders and manage competing priorities effectively.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Marie Hyde at .