Commercial Manager Projects

Role: Commercial Manager – Project Management Specialist
Location: Midlands / North West / Staffordshire / Manchester / Birmingham / Coventry Hybrid, working from home and nearest office location, with travel
Salary : £65,000 - £70,000, plus car or car allowance
Executive Network Group have been retained with a leading utilities business, who are seeking a Commercial Manager, with a strong work history in project management to join the team, following an internal promotion.
Reporting to Head of Commercial, this role will be responsible for; the development and implementation of commercial controls, delivering the business outcomes for the sector, in terms of commercial, financial, regulatory and compliance performance measures.
What you’ll get to work on:

• Supporting the development and maintenance of project delivery plans. Drive delivery to meet projected outcomes whilst managing risks, dependencies, and constraints. Escalate as appropriate.
• Preparing and communicating consolidated status reports to the relevant governance and wider stakeholders, including, milestone progress, risk management, financial reporting (if applicable) and change requests.
• Developing and embedding effective sustaining measures to ensure successful delivery of the business benefits associated with each project.
• Ensuring activities are successfully delivered and managed within budget.
• Utilising accurate data to drive initiatives to improve performance.
• Designing, driving, and ensuring delivery to key improvement initiatives, championing knowledge share and continual improvement throughout.
• Managing, developing, and engaging teams to deliver objectives compliantly.
• Thinking strategically and having strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• A great communicator and effective collaborator with strong influencing skills.
• Identifying, analysing, and interpreting relevant data to drive departmental direction aligning to wider strategies.
• Creating improved working practices through identifying transformational department needs, collaborating with wider organisational initiatives.
• Solving complex issues using multiple tools and techniques.
• Managing multiple demands/projects and delivering to deadlines.

Who are we looking for:

• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Strong understanding of Commercial processes.
• Good understanding of operational work activities.
• Project Management qualifications experience

What you’ll get in return:

• £65,000 - £70,000
• Car or car allowance
• 15% Annual bonus
• Pension
• 25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
• Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development