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Job Overview
This is a senior commercial role where the focus of the role is on delivery of annual objectives for a business or contract. The role involves coordinating several commercial units and ensuring each delivers its own objectives and business targets.
At this level, the role works in a complex commercial environment involving liaising and coordination activities with critical internal stakeholders, external suppliers, and customers.
The role has a responsibility for ensuring all commercial systems and procedures are fully deployed, implemented, and governed.
Requires a skilled commercial professional with relevant knowledge of the industry.
Main Duties
* Examine business commercial process & practices, identify, and resolve problems to ensure policies remain relevant and consistent with regulatory practice.
* Identify opportunities to grow the business, through partnerships or new initiatives, and work to take advantage of opportunities.
* Analyse sales and other market opportunities & reports, identify market and business opportunity insight, and identify opportunities for contract and performance improvement.
* Carry out contract risk assessments, identify and resolve contractual and commercial issues to the benefit of the contract, customer, and business.
* Understand, assess, and resolves issues with contracts and commercial activities to improve commercial performance of contracts.
* Oversee contract performance including financial KPI's, ensure financial aspects and impact of a contract are communicated to all stakeholders and stakeholders adhere to their contractual obligations.
* Assess risks and make recommendations based on a thorough analysis of all factors involved in a business situation.
* Deliver effective commercial support, advice, governance, and compliance for business development opportunities including existing & ongoing projects, contracts, and business initiatives.
What we are looking for
Essential
* Qualified to Degree Level in Quantity Surveying / Mechanical Engineering / Electrical Engineering (or equivalent).
* Experience of managing and developing a commercial team.
* Experience of managing large and/or complex Electrical / MEP / Engineering projects.
* Relevant experience in a similar level role specifically focused on or electrical services projects.
* Strong technical knowledge of commonly used electrical services systems in the built environment.
* Self-motivated with a flexible approach to work, and capable of working to deadlines.
* Excellent knowledge of contract law and demonstrable knowledge of standard forms of contract (NEC, JCT, FIDIC or similar).
* Excellent numerical and communication skills.
* Good IT skills, including the ability to analyse, interpret & manipulate data.
* A high level of commercial awareness including knowledge of current contract legislation.
* Well organised, with a methodical approach to managing tasks to satisfactory completion with exceptional attention to detail.
* Full Clean Driving Licence
Desirable
* RICS or CIOB membership (or similar) or working towards professional accreditation.
* A high level of flexibility, successfully adapts to changing demands, requirements and conditions.
* Motivates and empowers others in order to reach organisational goals.
* Ability to thrive in a highly pressurised and driven environment.
* Creates new and imaginative approaches to work-related issues. Identifies fresh approaches and shows a willingness to question traditional assumptions.
* Collaborative working style, suited to negotiating mutually beneficial outcomes in view of a establishing a strong, and long-term client relationship.
* Experience of working as part of a senior leadership team.
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 £10,000!
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.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 80,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
Join our Mitie Team.
Together our diversity makes us stronger.