Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
As an organisation, there is little we don’t do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.
This role is in our
Group Commercial team. The Group Commercial team works closely with the company divisions to ensure continuity and accuracy of commercial contracts.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As the Group Commercial Lead for Assurance & Process, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing and ensuring the integrity, compliance, and strategic alignment of commercial processes within the organisation. This role will require a detail-oriented professional who can manage commercial risks, implement assurance processes, and provide guidance to key stakeholders. It will be your overall responsibility to oversee the development, implementation and continuous improvement of both the 1st Line of Commercial Assurance through the Divisional Commercial Teams and the 2nd Line of Commercial Assurance through the Group Commercial Team.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement a consistent and accurate Cost Value Reporting (CVR) for all contracts across the Group with Divisional CVR Management Reviews. .
- Lead Deep Dives Reviews into monthly CVR submissions to ensure that costs, revenues, and profitability are correctly tracked and reported with formal reporting feedback to individual Divisions and shared across Group.
- Implement trend-analysis reporting from CVR reports to support early identification and intervention across all contracts with automated management reporting of CVR’s at both Divisional and Group level.
- Introduce best practices and automation tools to streamline CVR processes, enhancing reporting efficiency and accuracy
- Develop, implement, and maintain commercial assurance processes across all divisions and at group level covering the entire project lifecycle from work winning to contract close.
- Develop and produce monthly and quarterly reporting of all commercial assurance findings and actions to M Group Executive.
- Create and lead annual commercial audit plans across all divisions built around the divisional commercial assurance plans incorporating early intervention reviews and deep dives into contracts and CVRs.
- Develop with the Divisional Commercial Directors and their teams a strategic approach to the implementation of an overarching Commercial Business Management System (BMS) for M Group with appropriate processes in place at both group, divisional and contracting entity levels.
- Develop training materials and guidance documents to support the successful implementation of all new commercial procedures and systems across M Group.
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management or related field
- Relevant professional certifications such as RICS or CICES
- Established senior experience in commercial management
- Experience of development, implementation and assurance of commercial processes and procedures across a Tier 1 UK Contractor
- An established background of working with various contract types and contracting arrangements (i.e. term maintenance and renewal frameworks, enterprise arrangements, capital delivery projects, etc.)
- Proficiency in identifying and mitigating risks / maximising opportunities associated with construction projects
- Proficiency in identifying and mitigating risks / maximising opportunities associated with construction projects
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car or allowance and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
About Us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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