Assistant Commercial Manager

Location - Birmingham

Salary - Base salary: £30,150 pa to c.£37,700 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As an Assistant Commercial Manager you will provide commercial support across L&P’s contracts portfolio. L&P has
a growing portfolio of contracts, including both standard government forms (for example Crown Commercial
Services, G-cloud, NEC3 contracts and HS2 T&Cs). HS2 Ltd uses its contract models to ensure that it complies
with statutory requirements along with relevant government policies to deliver value for money

About the role:

• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
• Assist the Commercial Manager in their duties of managing L&Ps portfolio up to a combined value of £55M.
• Contribute to the administration of L&P contracts.
• Assist in drafting documents to progress change requests through the company’s governance structure, systems and in association with other HS2 functions.
• Assist in reviewing the suppliers monthly dashboard against the employer’s instructions issued via Cemar and the information submitted on the monthly application for payment.
• Review and assess the suppliers monthly application for payment, and close-out any queries raised within a timely manner.
• Review supplier performance against KPIs and performance measures.
• Assist in the calculation of service credits and warranty payments.
• Work with the contract management team to achieve value for money at each stage of the contract.

Additional duties may include:

• Setting up and facilitating meetings and information sharing with other functional areas.
• Ad hoc support to high-profile projects.

About You:

SKILLS

• Basic knowledge of different forms of contract and risk allocation.
• Excellent Stakeholder management skills.
• Good attention to detail, especially with regards to contract documentation.
• Excellent administrative skills, able to switch between tasks without losing concentration.

KNOWLEDGE

• Knowledge of contract management systems.
• Knowledge of contract types and contract management processes.
• Knowledge of contract KPIs and performance measures.
• Basic knowledge of procurement lifecycles and stages.

TYPE OF EXPERIENCE

• Experience working in a commercial environment.
• Experience in an assistant contract or commercial management role.
• Stakeholder and supplier management skills.
• Experience with a good range of programmes and software (Excel, SAP, Outlook, PowerPoint, Access, Project).

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process (youtube.com)

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.