Responsible for managing HR activities and payroll processes at Crous Orléans Tours in France for around 500 staff. Leading a team and enhancing compensation and social provisions in the organization.
About the role
- Commercial Manager at Severn Trent managing £6.9 billion worth of contractor services. Overseeing cost intelligence, pricing strategies, and supporting major infrastructure programmes.
Responsibilities
- Take charge of a team of Cost Specialists delivering commercial expertise across our Capital Delivery programmes
- Central to developing, reviewing, and maintaining the cost intelligence that underpins our business planning and pricing strategies
- Lead the creation, approval, and continual refinement of Prices and Price changes
- Act as custodian for core commercial systems, cost curves, and cost data integrity
- Support Estimators, Senior Quantity Surveyors, Contractors, and other internal technical teams—ensuring clarity, consistency, and commercial robustness throughout our delivery models
- Advise on pricing queries to training others on cost-related processes, being the go‑to authority for cost intelligence, commercial interpretation, and performance reporting
Requirements
- Strong commercial background, ideally within Water, Utilities, Power, Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical, Aerospace, or similar sectors
- Experience working with the NEC suite of contracts
- Proven ability to offer cost advice across cross-functional teams
- Experience with frameworks, dispute resolution, and change control
- A track record of developing and supporting junior team members
- Skilled in influencing stakeholders at all levels
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Confident IT user with strong Excel capability
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret complex data
- Comfortable challenging assumptions to ensure commercial accuracy
- Forward-thinking, proactive approach to anticipating issues
- Strong organisational and time-management skills
- Experience with performance monitoring and reporting
- Ability to delegate effectively and deliver through others
- Passion for improving team capability and commercial processes
- High personal discipline and adherence to standards and regulations
- Clear-thinking decision-maker, even in ambiguity
- Innovative problem solver with strong drive to deliver
- Collaborative communicator who seeks input from others
- A strong team player who builds relationships across the wider business
- Essential: Degree in Quantity Surveying, Engineering or similar (or extensive commercial experience)
- Minimum 7+ years post‑qualification experience
- Full UK driving licence
Benefits
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 per annum based on company performance)
- Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
- Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
- Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Family friendly policies (including, a year off fully paid maternity and adoption leave)
- Two volunteering days per year
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