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.
The role has:
- High-impact leadership role across multiple sites (commercial + procurement + estimating oversight)
- Direct influence on profitability, governance, compliance and customer performance.
- You will lead all commercial and procurement contractual matters across a group of engineering companies, including negotiation, governance and risk management.
- You’ll manage the Commercial (including Estimating) and Procurement teams to ensure accurate quoting, controlled spend, robust supplier management and a consistent, high-quality customer experience.
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. HRGo are a recruitment agency supporting British Industry. We aim to respond to all applications.