Assistant Commercial Manager

Responsibilities

• Provide commercial support across bids and live contracts, ensuring compliance with Telent governance and compliance
• Support the negotiation and drafting of contractual agreements, including involvement in smaller negotiations
• Manage contractual processes such as compensation events, early warnings, and contract changes
• Work collaboratively with delivery, project, and bid teams to review and structure commercial solutions
• Identify commercial risks and propose appropriate mitigation strategies
• Support more complex and strategic bids through coordination and stakeholder engagement
• Act as a commercial point of contact for assigned contracts, managing issues and maintaining strong relationships
• Assist with contract governance, including deeds, NDAs, and contract documentation processes
• Participate in contract reviews, cost reviews, and internal governance forums
• Present and summarise commercial positions clearly to internal stakeholders

Requirements

• Experience in a commercial, legal, contracts, or similar roles
• Strong understanding of commercial risk and contractual principles
• Ability to review, draft, and support negotiation of contracts
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at all levels
• Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
• Experience working with customers or external stakeholders
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Proactive, solutions-focused approach with strong attention to detail
• Other backgrounds considered, from legal, conveyancing, quantity surveying, or finance
• Understanding of infrastructure, telecoms, utilities, or regulated environments
• Familiarity with contract frameworks (e.g. NEC, JCT, or public sector frameworks)
• Degree, HNC/HND or equivalent in a relevant discipline (e.g. Law, Commercial, Quantity Surveying)
• Experience supporting bids or working alongside bid teams

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• contract negotiation
• contract drafting
• commercial risk assessment
• contract management
• stakeholder engagement
• contract governance
• cost review
• contract frameworks
• bids support
• attention to detail

Soft Skills

• communication skills
• organizational skills
• proactive approach
• solutions-focused
• relationship management
• collaboration
• problem-solving
• multi-priority management
• engagement with stakeholders
• presentation skills

Certifications & Qualifications

• degree in Law
• degree in Commercial
• degree in Quantity Surveying
• HNC
• HND

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