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Commercial Lead - Rolls-Royce Framework
Location: Flexible with travel to Rolls-Royce sites as required
Salary: Competitive + Car Allowance + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Delivering the exceptional, every day
At Mitie, our expertise, care, technology and insight create exceptional environments that help our customers thrive. We're looking for an experienced Commercial Lead to join our strategic partnership with Rolls-Royce, providing senior commercial leadership across a major framework portfolio.
This is a high-profile opportunity for an accomplished commercial professional to influence business performance at the highest level, lead a talented commercial team, and drive value across a complex portfolio of projects and programmes.
The Opportunity
As Commercial Lead, you will act as the senior commercial authority for the Rolls-Royce Framework, taking ownership of commercial strategy, contractual position, financial performance, risk management and value creation.
Reporting into the Framework Leadership Team, you will play a critical role in protecting and enhancing margin, maximising commercial recovery, improving cash performance and ensuring robust commercial governance across all framework activities.
You will work closely with senior client stakeholders, project teams, supply chain partners and business leaders to deliver outstanding commercial outcomes while supporting the continued growth of the partnership.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide strategic commercial leadership across the Rolls-Royce Framework portfolio.
- Own commercial performance, including margin, cash generation, working capital and risk management.
- Lead high-value negotiations with clients, suppliers and strategic partners.
- Drive commercial excellence throughout the project lifecycle from concept and pre-construction through to final account settlement.
- Lead change management, claims, commercial entitlement and recovery strategies.
- Ensure effective implementation of NEC and JCT contractual mechanisms.
- Develop and maintain robust forecasting, reporting and commercial governance processes.
- Lead procurement and supply chain strategies to deliver best value and performance.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with Rolls-Royce stakeholders and framework partners.
- Identify and implement opportunities for commercial improvement, value engineering and operational efficiency.
- Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing commercial team.
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What We're Looking For
We are keen to speak with commercially driven leaders who can demonstrate:
- Significant commercial leadership experience within construction, engineering, infrastructure, projects or facilities management environments.
- Experience managing complex portfolios valued in excess of £50m annually.
- Strong NEC contract expertise, with knowledge of JCT contracts highly desirable.
- Proven success in delivering margin improvement, commercial recovery and cash generation.
- Extensive experience managing claims, variations, final accounts and contractual entitlement.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and client relationship management skills.
- Experience leading commercial teams and developing commercial talent.
- The ability to influence, challenge and support senior business leaders and clients.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, Construction Management, Engineering, Finance or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
Desirable
- MRICS qualification.
- CIPS membership or qualification.
- NEC Accreditation.
- Experience within aerospace, defence, nuclear or other highly regulated sectors.
- Eligibility for security clearance.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
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When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Marie Hyde at marie.hyde@mitie.com.
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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