Commercial Manager
Requirements
Candidates should have strong public-sector commercial or procurement management experience, including managing complex, high-value contracts after award and expertise in negotiation, change control, and supplier relationships. Experience in rail, transport, infrastructure, engineering, or major capital programmes and knowledge of regulated procurement governance are sought; SAP or Ariba experience is relevant, while a quantity surveying background and CIPS qualification are desirable.
Job Description
We're supporting a major Transport for London programme linked to the introduction of the new Piccadilly Line trains. This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Commercial Manager to join a high-profile transport infrastructure project and play a key role in ensuring commercial success throughout a critical delivery phase.
The successful candidate will support commercial activities associated with the rollout of the new fleet, including supplier management, contract administration, asset disposal activities relating to the outgoing fleet, and post-contract commercial management.
Location: Stratford, London, E20
Contract: 3 months initially
Payrate: £529.95 per day Umbrella
Working Arrangements: 3 days office based (Tuesday and Thursday mandatory)
Key Responsibilities
- Support the Senior Commercial Manager in delivering commercial strategies across a major rolling stock programme.
- Manage post-contract commercial activities, contract changes and supplier negotiations.
- Lead contract reviews to ensure ongoing value, performance and risk management.
- Support the disposal and end-of-life commercial arrangements for existing assets.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
- Drive supplier performance, governance and commercial best practice.
- Ensure compliance with public sector procurement regulations and TfL governance requirements.
- Provide commercial advice on procurement, contract management and supplier engagement activities.
- Support forecasting, reporting and commercial performance management.
About You
We're particularly interested in candidates with:
- Strong Commercial or Procurement Management experience within the public sector.
- Experience managing high-value and complex contracts throughout the post-award lifecycle.
- Contract negotiation, change control and supplier relationship management expertise.
- Experience within rail, transport, infrastructure, engineering or major capital programmes.
- Knowledge of procurement governance and commercial management within regulated environments.
- SAP and/or Ariba experience.
- Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
Desirable
- Quantity Surveying background.
- CIPS qualification (or equivalent).
- Experience supporting rolling stock, fleet replacement, transportation or asset disposal programmes.
What's on Offer?
- Opportunity to contribute to one of London's most significant transport improvement programmes.
- Exposure to a major fleet replacement and infrastructure project.
- Hybrid working arrangement.
- Competitive day rate of £529.95 Umbrella.
- Contract running until January 2027 with potential for extension.
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About Transport for London
Every day, we help millions of people to make journeys across London: By Tube, bus, tram, car, bike – and more. People don’t associate us with journeys by river, on foot or via the air, but we help with that, too. Getting people to where they need to go has been our business for over 100 years, and it shows. We’re leaders in our field, and no other city’s transport system is quite as recognisable: Red buses, black taxis, Tube trains and roundels have become icons in their own right. Our main job is to keep the city moving, working and growing but to do that, we have to listen. Constant improvements across the network are fuelled by feedback and comments from customers, as well as work within communities, representative groups, businesses and other London transport stakeholders. But our progress also depends on technology and data. With the future at our fingertips, we’ve already used it to revolutionise travel payments (think Oyster and contactless payment cards), and improved travel information. Tech and data is essential, not just to our future, but to others’: third parties use our data to power apps and services vital to customer journeys. So what’s next? As well as continuing to deliver Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s strategy and commitments on transport, our programme of capital investments is still one of the largest. We launched the Elizabeth line, we’re modernising services and stations and making travel safer for all.
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