COMMERCIAL MANAGER - INSIDE IR35 - UP TO £67 PER HOUR - SC CLEARED OR WILLING TO UNDERGO - 12 MONTHS - STEVENAGE (HYBRID) - SINGLE STAGE INTERVIEW

Yolk Recruitment are recruiting for a Commercial Manager to join our client on a 12 month basis within the defence industry. Ideally we need someone who is skilled in Bid Management, experience of Defence Contracting and able to work as part of a Multi Functional/Skilled team.

Responsibilities:

• Business Strategy - maximising identified business opportunities.
• Business Winning - Being a key player in the winning of new work. Responsible for the full Route to Contract, including being the driving force during the Bidding process, ensuring cross functional working to deliver costs in time, generation of proposals, and contract negotiations, whilst maintaining the viability of our client's.
• Contract Delivery - Being a vital part of the delivery chain that ensures our client's meets its promises to our customers.
• Negotiations - Gaining acceptance and agreement on issues and amendments to ensure contractual compliance
• Building and maintaining relationships with new and existing customers, focusing on collaboration.
• Being the point of contact for your project(s) for any contractual information and agreements including obtaining and providing legal advice.
• Communicating with personnel at all levels.
• Reporting to senior management on the progress of your contracts.
• Representing the commercial team in progress/reviews and/or customer meetings.
• Analysing and problem solving complex issues every day, with the help of a multi-functional team where required.
• Working under pressure to achieve deadlines.
• Day-to-day administration and maintenance of the company systems.

Skillset/experience required:

• A confident communicator, both written and verbal.
• Comfortable building working relationships.
• Adaptable and Approachable.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Analytical in approach.
• Determined to succeed.
• You might have a legal background, have experience working in an in house contracts team, but you will be used to working with contracts and negotiating with customers.