Commercial Manager

Role: Commercial Manager

Location: Bracknell (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 Months

Day rate: £700 Inside IR35

Active SC clearance required

Brief Overview of role / project

The Commercial Manager will lead and manage post-contract management across contracts, ensuring compliance with contractual delivery obligations, risk mitigation, and value delivery aligned with strategic objectives. This role acts as a bridge between legal, sales, delivery, procurement, and finance teams to ensure business objectives are met with minimal legal and contractual exposure.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• Lead Qualified Defence Contract (QDC) single source contract management and negotiation and statements of work in preparation for governance approval.
• Construct overall QDC deal structure in collaboration with internal teams and L&C
• Provide QDC cross training to other key internal commercial managers
• Collaborate with internal teams to achieve strategic goals
• Engage with L&C for support to manage delays to delivery
• Maintain contract documentation and ensure compliance with governance policies
• Create and manage templates for SOWs, change orders, and other agreements
• Support BAU contract management activities
• Deliver contractually required reporting and participate in customer meetings
• Stay current on IT law, data protection (e.g., GDPR), and commercial legislation
• Support and develop members of the Contract Management team
• Act in accordance with Legal and Commercial guidance
• Ensure any contractual document (contract change or extension, relief or delay notice, or contract proposal) is reviewed and approved by the Legal & Commercial team in accordance with DOFA requirements.
• Engage support from and liaise closely with the Legal & Commercial team at the early stage of new contract or contract extension negotiations in order to agree negotiation strategy and key legal issues.
• Engage support Legal & Commercial during contract delivery regarding any contractual dispute or delay.

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