Job details

We are currently recruiting for a Head of Commercial Delivery- Major Projects.

Project Detail:

Department for Transport – Highways England

Protect Highways England’s commercial interests, within a part of a Major Projects capital programme, supporting it as a balanced, intelligent client.  Support excellence in commercial delivery, procurement strategy, funding applications, scheme budget management, commercial management, contract administration, commercial dispute avoidance and commercial performance management.

Reporting into the Commercial Programme Director and have manage a team of 2 – 5 direct reports.

As a Head of Commercial Delivery, you will be: 

• Using experience and professional knowledge to advise on identified needs, priorities and potential threats to regional or scheme success, defining and communicating commercial mitigation to achieve continually improving delivery. 
• Using experience and professional knowledge to influence a regional or schemes strategy. 
• Developing positive commercial relationships with external stakeholders to a scheme.
• Administering, when required, the commercial management of PFI, Financial and Legal support to a scheme
• By application of technical experience and professional knowledge, contributing to programme agenda, managing commercial expectations, optimising scheme commercial success in delivering objectives.
• Working alongside the major projects project director / managers, deploy use experience and professional knowledge when acting as an integral senior member of the project team.

You’ll have:

• Knowledge of NEC forms of contract. Experience of tendering and procurement using NEC forms of contract.
• Post award and pre award experience
• Programme and multi contract experience
• Commercial experience within large infrastructure projects/programmes.
• Have experience with projects/programmes that are valued from half a billion pounds to one and a half billion pounds.
• Know how to manage the integrity of commercial delivery relationships in the use of public money.
• The ability, using experience, to take decisions effectively selecting the Option most likely to mitigate commercial threats and realise efficiency opportunities to achieve sustainable development.
• Experience and professional knowledge to lead the regional commercial delivery team to routinely deliver a consistent and high-quality approach to commercial and procurement.
• Decided on local flexibility when delivering within policy and strategy, supporting funding requests, scheme budget management, commercial management, contract administration, commercial dispute avoidance and commercial performance management.
• Communicated advice on cost drivers for cost comparison in an infrastructure environment with experience of using cost capture, analysis and interpretation into intelligence to drive continuous improvement in efficiencies across all project control stages.

"In applying for this role you acknowledge the following; this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment, and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different."