Senior Commercial Manager

About the role

Join us and be part of The Great Grid Upgrade – paving the way for a greener tomorrow.

National Grid Strategic Infrastructure delivers major strategic UK electricity transmission projects, focused on connecting more clean, low-carbon power to England and Wales.

As a Senior Commercial Manager, you'll lead a robust end-to-end commercial lifecycle including procurement, contract management, claims and risk management process. You'll lead the project commercial team to deliver performance and drive innovation. 

This role is responsible for managing all relevant contractual aspects of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) offshore projects valued in excess of £3bn, ensuring that the processes, procedures and working methods meet the requirements of our internal governance process (BP500SI) and the project Steering Committee. You will act as the key contractual relationship manager with contractors relating to EPC and, non-EPC contracts. In addition, you'll act as the key commercial interface between the project and the central SI teams and will be a key contributor to the project leadership team.

In this role you can enjoy our hybrid working from office and home. You'll be flexible to regular travel throughout England and Scotland, depending on the project.

Key accountabilities

• Lead and develop the team effectively; provide coaching, guidance, direction and leadership to the team of commercial and contractual experts while ensuring resources meet budget and business plan objectives.
• Lead on overarching commercial contracting strategy, commercial negotiations and commercial outcomes for projects in tendering and those planned in the future.
• Lead on execution of claims management and negotiation of all material variations to the contract and effectively manage contractual performance, ensuring contractor and client-side obligations are understood and complied with.
• Work closely with the regulation team, ensuring the project has the right level of expertise required to achieve successful regulatory outcomes and support the development of robust regulatory funding submissions, particularly around the agreed contract and commercial strategies working with key stakeholders within NG (UK Reg, UK Legal and Global Procurement) and Project Director, ensuring all costs to date and future costs associated with the specific project(s) are captured and the correct level of funding is applied for and awarded to NG.

About you

You have the gravitas to operate independently both internally and externally.

You are entrepreneurial, an expert at driving commercial value and can bring best practice from other parts of the energy sector as well as from other industries. You are open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.  

You are keen to learn and will constantly think of innovative ways to drive commercial value. An understanding of the regulatory environment that National Grid operates in would be desirable, as would a good understanding of procurement, commercial value, contractual processes, project management, and analysing and identifying sources of risk.

• Commercial expertise of construction projects or programmes.
• Very strong stakeholder management.
• Working on large scale EPC model projects (FIDIC, NEC).
• Leadership experience.
• Commercial Technical Acumen.
• Experience of working with major contracting organisations and getting the best available options.
• Commercial and Contractual negotiation skills within construction industry.

What you'll get

A competitive starting salary between £80,000 - £100,000 – dependent on capability.

As well as your base salary, you will receive a full electric company car or cash alternative, a bonus of up to 20% of your salary for stretch performance, private medical insurance and a competitive contributory pension scheme where we will double match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%. You will also have access to a number of flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, a salary sacrifice technology scheme, support via the employee assistance line and matched charity giving to name a few.

About us

National Grid Strategic Infrastructure is a Business Unit created to propel our grid forward to deliver in 5 years, what has been achieved in the previous 30. By 2030 we aim to have 17 new major infrastructure projects live across England, Scotland and Wales. 

Here at National Grid, we connect homes and businesses to power, making sure supply and demand match each other. We make sure the lights are on in schools, operating theatres, and sporting arenas; we’re thousands of people working on behalf of millions of people. 

Our investment in Strategic Infrastructure via The Great Grid Upgrade will mean more home-grown power, greater energy security and a cleaner future. 

Whatever your role, wherever you work with us, you’ll help us hit stretching targets and achieve our far-reaching goal: to secure, clean energy that supports our world far into the future. Here, you will be at the heart of energy.

More information

This role closes on 24 March 2025 at 23:59, however we encourage candidates to submit their application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary. Interviews to held week commencing 31 March. 

At National Grid, we work towards the highest standards in everything we do, including how we support, value and develop our people. Our aim is to encourage and support employees to thrive and be the best they can be. We celebrate the difference people can bring into our organisation, and welcome and encourage applicants with diverse experiences and backgrounds, and offer flexible and tailored support, at home and in the office.

Our goal is to drive, develop and operate our business in a way that results in a more inclusive culture. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, the innovation from diverse teams & perspectives and business need. We are committed to building a workforce so we can represent the communities we serve and have a working environment in which each individual feels valued, respected, fairly treated, and able to reach their full potential.

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