Head Of Commercial

Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the Opportunity
Jacobs are offering an exciting opportunity to join our Divergent Solutions business. We work on a range of projects for our diverse client portfolio that covers Defence, Critical National Infrastructure and Nuclear market sectors.
We are looking for a self starting, motivated and experienced Commercial Manager to join our growing Technology and Innovative Solutions Business in the UK.
Reporting to the Group Director, you will be responsible for commercial advice and support to bids, frameworks, and projects across our portfolio.

• Implement commercial best practice and negotiate terms and conditions to maximise value and minimise risk and cost.
• Support the business in developing and implementing commercial strategies for successfully winning bids and managing post contract activities.
• Contribute to the development of supply chain strategies for winning bids and delivering projects.
• Draft, negotiate and executing of partnering arrangements such as teaming agreements and joint ventures.
• Communicate and negotiate with key customer interfaces and supply chain.
• Commercially manage the bid and tender process.
• Resolution of variations, disputes and contractual interpretation issues.
• Support mobilisation of key contracts
• Work with key suppliers in pre and post contract environments - Lead the commercial management of subcontract accounts.
• Ensure compliance with the company systems, processes, and procedures.
• Help Deliver financial results on projects through effective commercial and subcontract management.
• Co-ordinate the submission in a timely manner of change requests, with price and programme effects, for subsequent agreement.
• Promote a team-working environment.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Major contract experience gained in a MoD, technology, nuclear and/or Infrastructure industries.
• Knowledge of ITAR, EAR and Export compliance
• Working knowledge of MoD and/or NEC Contracting procedures
• Strong negotiation experience
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Effective communicator in English language both written & oral

Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.
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