CCM

This is a newly created role and opportunity for an experienced Commercial Contracts Manager to take up position within an established wider commercial & legal (CCM) team for a truly innovative, highly profitable and continually expanding business group.

As part of the centralised and group-wide commercial & legal contracts team, the Commercial Contracts Manager will work alongside other CCM’s, HOC’s and have support from the In-house General Counsel.

The Commercial & Legal Contracts Manager will engage operationally and work in a close support/advisory position to directors, senior management, technical and sales departments across a variety of commercial and legal contracts issues across group businesses. This role will also have a particular focus/alignment to the business’s major, high-value energy infrastructure projects division (technology networks design, build, installation and management), which often are within the NEC3/4 contracting framework.

The CCM's core focus will be to advise, review, negotiate, draft and execute contractual agreements (pre & post award, sales and supply side) ensuring legal compliance, risk mitigation and where possible commercial advantage is achieved.

Core workload engagement & focus:

• B2B legal contracts arrangements - contract T&C's analysis, review, drafting, negotiation and amendment at bid/tender/proposal, execution and renewal stages (sales and supplier sides)

• Engagement with internal CCM division, general counsel and all other commercial & technical departments

• Advising Sales, Business Development, Procurement, Exec leadership and wider technical engineering teams on all commercial and contractual issues/solutions

• Management, control and escalation of all commercial/contractual related issues

• Assist in the refinement and development of commercial & contractual templates, tools and processes

* This role’s ownership scope/seniority can be tailored somewhat dependent on an individual’s experience, hence the broad salary range offering.

Key qualifications & experience required for Commercial & Legal Contracts Manager application:

• Proven experience in leading all aspects of commercial & legal contractual review, drafting and negotiation across pre & post-awards sales, supplier/vendor and partnering agreements

• Specific experience of NEC3/4 contracts framework suite.

• Likely 7-10+ years experience in a dedicated legal CCM role capacity within an engineering services/technology/SaaS environment (Energy/BEAMA sector related would be a strong advantage)

• Solid legal contracts understanding with broader commercial business acumen and engagement.

• Likely LLB law degree qualified (other degree and equivalent legal contracts professional experience equally welcome).

• Good breadth of contractual form engagement, ideally spanning: Construction/Engineering/technical services (design, build, installation, maintenance), technology hardware, SaaS and data +++

• Able to demonstrate wider ‘commercial business’ awareness and the correct positioning of contractual advice/operation/negotiation/drafting to mitigate business risk and ensure compliance is balanced with commercial advantage on a mutually agreeable basis

• Agile approach - able to balance competing demands in a high-volume, fast-paced and growing business environment

• Analytical and inquisitive - willing to fully engage in the business’s technical sector, product/service specifics and stakeholder groups

• Stakeholder focused – able to build rapport with sales and technical stakeholder groups alike, internal and external (up to C-suite).

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