Techno Commercial Manager

Stopford has an exciting opportunity for a Techno Commercial Manager to join the team. You will be based at our office in Knutsford with the opportunity for hybrid working. There may be some travel to clients sites. This is a full-time permanent position and in return you will receive a competitive salary.

About Stopford

Stopford’s business activities are at the forefront of the energy transition and together with our clients and partners, we are playing our part in tackling the biggest challenges of our time: Energy Security; Environmental Sustainability and Energy Affordability.

The Techno Commercial Manager role:

Stopford are recruiting for a Techno Commercial Manager, to join our Commercial Group to support the Managing Director and Commercial Director to meet our growth strategy and contractual deliverables. In addition, the Techno Commercial Manager will provide technical and commercial project support and act as the interface between the commercial team and our service delivery groups.

Reporting to the Commercial Director the Techno Commercial Manager will work across all aspects of the business, engaging with directors and manager, clients, supply chain and internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities of the Techno Commercial Manager include:

• Supporting the sales process including the identification and evaluation of new business opportunities, proposal write up and support the commercial review.
• Creation and delivery of sales presentations.
• Prepare high quality proposals addressing the needs of our key partners and clients.
• Attend client meetings related to projects and present findings.
• Undertake commercial assessments, modelling and data analysis
• Facilitate early-stage project delivery throughout the company, attending kick off meetings where necessary.
• Provide technical and commercial guidance to the service group project teams supporting collaborative working and advise the Commercial Director of any issues that may affect our contractual obligations with our clients.

Role requirements for Techno Commercial Manager include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Chemical preferred).
• Achieved Chartered status (desirable).
• Relevant post qualification experience in a commercial role within a project management/engineering company.
• Have worked on a variety of projects and be able to demonstrate where you have used both technical and commercial abilities to deliver successful completion.
• Project Management experience.
• Understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
• Strong interpersonal skills to interact across a broad range of audiences and technical backgrounds including internal and external clients.
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively to complete multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Be flexible, adaptable and have a keen interest in working with multi-disciplinary engineering project teams.
• A positive, team-oriented attitude and inquisitive mindset.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High proficiency with Office 365 including One Drive and SharePoint with proficient use of Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Eligible to live and work in the UK.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate may be required to achieve and maintain security clearance of at least Security Check level (SC clearance).

Benefits

Employment at Stopford brings many benefits including:

• Competitive salary
• Profit related bonus payment (10%)
• Pension (5% employer and 5% employee)
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Additional day off to celebrate your Birthday
• Private medical insurance
• Employee assistance programme
• Free on-site parking
• Reimbursement of professional membership fees
• Long service awards

Please go to our website for a full job description to familiarise yourself with all of the responsibilities, skills and experience required before you apply.

Please note that we do not accept applications from agencies, and you must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

We look forward to receiving your CV for the post of Techno Commercial Manager.

Closing date: 3rd August 2025

Stopford reserves the right to bring forward the closing date if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we would recommend that you apply as soon as possible.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant. If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.