The Talent Movement
Commercial Manager
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Commercial Manager
Hybrid, 2 to 3 days office / Hub with business travel available Multiple UK locations available
The Talent Movement is supporting a nationally focused organisation spanning agri-tech, innovation, and commercialisation to recruit a Commercial Manager.
This is a central commercial coordination role, responsible for taking potential projects from initial opportunity through to:
- A clear, commercially robust proposal
- Contract finalisation
- Handover into delivery
The organisation operates across diverse technical sectors, generating opportunities through specialist teams in agriculture, science, and technology. Your role will be to introduce structure, pace, and commercial discipline to the project pipeline.
What You Will Be Doing
- Managing a varied pipeline of commercial project opportunities
- Acting as the central point of coordination for identified opportunities
- Collaborating with technical specialists to understand client needs and develop tailored solutions
- Converting opportunities into clear scopes of work, costings, timelines, and proposals
- Coordinating contributions from finance, legal, project management, and technical teams
- Ensuring smooth progression of opportunities through the commercial process
- Supporting customer scoping conversations and posing the right commercial questions
- Managing forecasting, pipeline reporting, and revenue visibility
- Analysing bottlenecks causing delays or lost opportunities
- Improving conversion from initial interest to contracted revenue
- Ensuring proposals are commercially viable, deliverable, and properly governed
- Handing won projects over to the PMO for delivery
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About You
Experience background:
- From commercial management, bid management, project sales, consultancy, professional services, or technical project environments
Ideal qualifications & expertise:
- Strong experience managing a pipeline of commercial opportunities
- Confidence in producing forecasts and revenue reports
- Experience scoping and costing complex projects
- Understanding of bids, tenders, contracts, and commercial risk
- Ability to work effectively across multiple technical or professional disciplines
- Strong stakeholder and coordination skills internally
- Ability to convert loosely defined opportunities into clear, deliverable proposals
- Proven track record of enhancing process efficiency and improving conversion
- Customer-facing confidence and robust negotiation skills
- Experience managing multiple concurrent opportunities of varying complexity
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Bonus points (though not essential):
- Background in agri-tech, food technology, agriculture, innovation, or research-led environments
The ideal candidate will be:
- Commercially minded, highly organised
- Comfortable operating in a complex matrix of technical experts, customers, and internal stakeholders
For a confidential discussion, contact Kate at kate@thetalentmovement.co.uk.
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