Job Description:

Senior Commercial Manager

Location: Birmingham

Permanent, Full Time

Salary: £75,000 - £90,000

Our client, a leading provider of facilities services in the UK, are seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to lead the commercial management and administration of a major Government contract, with a focus on NEC4 and CCS frameworks. This role will play a key part in the commercial stewardship of Government accounts, ensuring robust commercial processes, compliance, and contract performance.

Job Description

We are looking for a commercially focused professional with experience in facilities management contract environments who can manage contractual, financial, and stakeholder responsibilities while driving commercial value and mitigating risk across the account.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the commercial administration and performance of Government contracts.
• Review contract terms and conditions, ensuring compliance and resolving contractual issues.
• Prepare and submit contractual notices, change requests, quotations, variations, and claims.
• Monitor contract performance against key milestones, deliverables, and performance indicators.
• Support financial management activities including budgets, forecasts, contract variations, and commercial reporting.
• Utilise contract management systems to maintain documentation, analyse data, and produce reports.
• Build effective relationships with clients, subcontractors, procurement teams, and internal stakeholders.
• Identify contractual and commercial risks, recommending and implementing mitigation strategies.
• Infrequent travel to SQB, Westminster and Leeds, as required
• Management responsibility for a team of approximately 40 colleagues, including 5 direct reports

Professional and Personal Competencies/Qualifications

• Proven experience in commercial contract management, ideally within the Facilities Management sector
• Familiarity with NEC contracts or equivalent frameworks
• Strong commercial, analytical, and data interpretation skills
• Experience engaging with senior internal and external stakeholders
• Team management experience
  Excellent communication, organisational, and problem
• solving skills
• Competent user of Microsoft Office
• Experience with CCS contract frameworks (desirable)
• QS Degree or equivalent (desirable)
• Experience with National Schedule of Rates (NSR) - preferred
• Experience with Maximo or Tririga CAFM systems
• Full clean driving licence
• Ability to pass BPSS checks