Westlakes Recruit are currently recruiting for Senior Commercial Managers to be engaged on a permanent basis. Candidates will ideally be based in the South East region and will be working on major defence scope. Hybrid working will be supported. Job Objectives Accountable for ensuring that commercial strategies contribute to cross government and departmental procurement agenda; Conducting commercial assurance of business cases, commercial strategies and contracting approaches, to ensure that sound commercial practices are being applied; Accountable for providing commercial service delivery within budget, on time, and for providing commercial inputs to the project schedule (project action tracker); Managing complex and business critical or strategically important negotiations; Examining risks to project commercial success and implements appropriate mitigations; Developing supplier management strategies in order to maximise commercial leverage; and Devising and develops the strategy for transition to contract management. Development and implementation of effective contract and supplier management strategies, to extract maximum value from contracts, motivate performance and drive innovation; Proactive monitoring and contract management, to deliver enduring thru-life value-for-money solutions; Monitoring supplier performance against KPIs, to deliver successful outcomes (time, cost, performance); Providing timely feedback on supplier performance issues, successes, and contractual ..... full job details .....