Assistant Commercial Manager

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

8/5/2025

Job Title: Assistant Commercial Manager

Location: Warrington, Cheshire + Hybrid Working Arrangement

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF66092

At Cavendish Nuclear we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Assistant Commercial Manager, at our Warrington site.

The role

As an Assistant Commercial Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This offers an exciting opportunity support a new customer and a growing portfolio of contracts within our Civil Decommissioning business stream, with involvement from the outset working closely with customer and subcontractors to deliver tangible project delivery as the projects expands.

Day-to-day, you’ll be a key part of the project delivery team providing post-contract support to key growth projects with a new customer with additional support to pre-contract activities to grow the next phases of the wider programme.

• Ensure compliant administration of subcontracts, responsible for driving effective contract change, communications, KPI management and commercial / financial reporting.
• Leading review of application for payment / invoicing / payment processes from subcontractors.
• Provision of commercial and contractual support and advice across the project, working closely with the Commercial Manager and Project Managers.
• Support project regulatory compliance, including for example trade controls.
• Supporting the Commercial Manager with customer contract administration as required
  
  

This role is full time, thirty-seven hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with three days in the office/onsite and two days working from home and is based at our Warrington hub.

Essential Experience Of The Assistant Commercial Manager

• Experience of administering different contract models, e.g. customer bespoke & NEC3/4
• Experience of administering subcontracts
• Experience of working within highly regulated industries
• Post-contract delivery experience
  
  

Qualifications For The Assistant Commercial Manager

• Degree qualified (or equivalent) in Law, Quantity Surveying is advantageous but not essential
• Professional memberships of WCC (World Commerce and Contracting) / IACCM is desirable
  
  

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive ten days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Cavendish employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
  
  

Cavendish Nuclear

As a leader within the UK nuclear industry, Cavendish Nuclear, part of Babcock International Group, provides a comprehensive range of critical nuclear solutions in clean energy, defence and civil new build and decommissioning projects. Together, we’re innovating to make nuclear safer, faster and cost-effective across the nuclear energy life cycle. Your career with us could take you anywhere within Babcock International Group – from Canada, the USA to Japan. Work with us to create a safe and secure world, together.

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email [email protected] with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 29/08/2025

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