Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
At M Group Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.
This role will be within our Metering team, you’ll join the leading provider of metering services in the UK energy retail sector, we provide efficient and flexible services for gas, electricity and water meters.
Our meter engineers install, maintain and manage meters to make sure customers are billed correctly and energy usage patterns are monitored.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As Commercial Manager, and reporting to the Head of Commercial, working within our fast paced and high performing Commercial Department, this role plays a pivotal role in ensuring the commercial viability of current and future M Group Energy (Metering) relationships, covering Data Collection, Data Management, Installation Services and Debt Recovery Services
Working with existing and future customers you will ensure the service that we deliver and contracts that we manage deliver excellent customer service whilst maintaining commercial success.
In providing support across our M Group Energy portfolios, this role encompasses a range of tasks, including areas such as: bid modelling, contract writing, contract negotiation, commercial oversight and governance, and ensuring we have robust renewal strategies in place at potential point of exit.
A results driven role, there is a key focus on reviewing existing contractual mechanisms and processes, working with internal and external stakeholders, identifying areas to increase commercial value through operational and commercial improvement risk and cost management and developing and overseeing the implementation of such with strong influencing skills. Throughout the life cycle of the contract you will need to constantly re-evaluate, re-model and plan to ensure ongoing business success.
Acting as a primary point of contact for dispute resolution the Commercial Manager is responsible for collaborating with Operational colleagues to ensure that mobilisations adhere to the agreed business model, financial parameters and timescales.
Responsible for an end-to-end contract process, it is essential that the Commercial Manager has the ability to establish the requirements through both a logical thinking approach and strong stakeholder management skills; is able to scope and analyse required reporting; possesses strong numerical ability so as to model a variety of scenarios leading to the commercial offering and business proposal; and is highly literate and able to write a well-written contract which clearly articulates the operational and commercial requirements.
This is a hybrid role based in the the Newcastle office
What you’ll bring
- Ability to identify business risks, and be able to design and implement mitigation plans
- Persuasive communication and influencing skills at all level, both internal and external
- Ability to understand and design business processes
- Hugh numerical, local and analytical ability with a methodological approach to problem solving
- Exceptional written skills with the ability to articulate a robust and detailed contract inclusive of both commercial and operational detail
- A passion for delivering excellent outcomes for our people and customers
- Keen to thrive in a fast-paced working environment, juggling tasks and managing priorities to deliver high standards of work, on time
Key deliverables
- Manage end-to-end contract renewal processes, applying a logical approach and strong stakeholder management skills, with analytical ability to fully identify the requirements and that which is to be covered in the renewal discussions and contract variation.
- Writing a very well-written contract that is comprehensive and fully articulates all operational and commercial requirements, ensuring all risk mitigation is adequately provisioned.
- Building relationships with internal and external stakeholders, balancing a delivery of customer service with the ability to drive change and negotiate so as to protect the business’ overall position.
- Demonstratable high numeracy and excel skills, with the ability to scope effective reporting requirements, analyse and report upon these to drive results across tenders, contracts, renewals, service reviews, operational improvements and commercial change.
- Ensuring output of work is to a high standard and delivered in a timely manner, to deliver the service required of the business functions the Commercial Department supports including Divisional and Group governance
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Car allowance option
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you
- Discretionary bonus scheme
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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