Commercial & Supply Chain Manager
If you want a role where you can lead commercial and procurement strategy end-to-end, influence senior decisions, and make measurable impact on margin, risk and service delivery – this is it. You'll take ownership of contracts, bids, supplier performance and procurement governance across a multi‑site, regulated engineering/manufacturing operation, with the scope to improve processes, shape KPIs and lead established teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead negotiation and review of customer/supplier contracts, T&Cs, NDAs and long‑term agreements; identify and mitigate commercial risk.
- Act as the primary commercial/procurement escalation point and build strong customer and supplier relationships, including performance reviews.
- Provide commercial insight and pricing reviews to protect margin and support profitable growth.
- Oversee bid governance and tender compliance; manage a disciplined bid/no‑bid process.
- Ensure Estimating and Procurement deliver accurate, timely pricing and that required technical information is available prior to quoting.
- Develop and improve procedures, governance and KPIs across commercial and procurement.
- Ensure compliance with contractual and regulatory obligations.
- Implement procurement strategies to optimise inventory levels, availability and turnover.
- Monitor account performance and additional works to prevent commercial leakage.
- Lead, coach and resource teams to ensure continuous operational coverage and continuous improvement.
- Maintain secure records in line with data protection; support audits and provide senior reporting as required.
- Provide senior operational cover when required.
What you'll bring
- Strong commercial and procurement management experience within regulated engineering/manufacturing (or similar).
- Solid contract law knowledge and proven negotiation capability.
- Track record in account management and supporting new business activity.
- Experience building procurement strategies and managing suppliers through KPI/metric-driven performance.
- Confident leader across multiple disciplines; able to prioritise competing deadlines.
- Excellent communication, high attention to detail, strong MS Office/business systems capability.
This is a permanent Job with a starting salary dependant on experience.
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If you want a role where you can lead commercial and procurement strategy end-to-end, influence senior decisions, and make measurable impact on margin, risk and service delivery – this is it. You’ll take ownership of contracts, bids, supplier performance and procurement governance across a multi‑site, regulated engineering/manufacturing operation, with the scope to improve processes, shape KPIs and lead established teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead negotiation and review of customer/supplier contracts, T&Cs, NDAs and long‑term agreements; identify and mitigate commercial risk.
- Act as the primary commercial/procurement escalation point and build strong customer and supplier relationships, including performance reviews.
- Provide commercial insight and pricing reviews to protect margin and support profitable growth.
- Oversee bid governance and tender compliance; manage a disciplined bid/no‑bid process.
- Ensure Estimating and Procurement deliver accurate, timely pricing and that required technical information is available prior to quoting.
- Develop and improve procedures, governance and KPIs across commercial and procurement.
- Ensure compliance with contractual and regulatory obligations.
- Implement procurement strategies to optimise inventory levels, availability and turnover.
- Monitor account performance and additional works to prevent commercial leakage.
- Lead, coach and resource teams to ensure continuous operational coverage and continuous improvement.
- Maintain secure records in line with data protection; support audits and provide senior reporting as required.
- Provide senior operational cover when required.
What you’ll bring
- Strong commercial and procurement management experience within regulated engineering/manufacturing (or similar).
- Solid contract law knowledge and proven negotiation capability.
- Track record in account management and supporting new business activity.
- Experience building procurement strategies and managing suppliers through KPI/metric-driven performance.
- Confident leader across multiple disciplines; able to prioritise competing deadlines.
- Excellent communication, high attention to detail, strong MS Office/business systems capability.
This is a permanent Job with a starting salary dependant on experience.
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