Vacancy Created: 01/12/2025
To apply for this role, please call Alan on 07766 383614 or alternatively you can send your CV and competencies to [email protected]
AWC Staff Services are looking for a Pre-Contract Commercial Manager to work alongside our client, within their Electricity Transmission team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.
You'll be covering projects in the South West and South Wales with visits to regional offices - willingness to travel is a must!
What will you be doing?
As a Pre-Contract Commercial Manager, you’ll manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritising tasks and remaining organised to ensure successful completion of projects.
- Lead pre-tender due diligence, negotiating terms that balance governance with profit and risk mitigation
- Review and refine contract conditions, warranties, and guarantees, resolving deviations with clients
- Provide commercial summaries to support internal approvals and attend tender reviews to align stakeholders
- Collaborate with legal teams and clients to ensure clarity and compliance
- Support bid development, assess risks, and shape mitigation strategies. Manage post-award appraisals and ensure smooth handover to delivery teams
- Maintain accurate documentation and uphold company policies
- Contribute to Health & Safety, Quality, and Environmental standards while adapting to evolving business needs
What you’ll bring
- Relevant qualification to degree level
- Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
- Detailed working knowledge of the NEC and FIDIC standard forms of Contract and relevant contract law.
- The ability to work to deadlines
- Financially & commercially astute with experience of pre-contract negotiations
- Experience as a Pre-Contracts Manager, Pre-Construction Manager, Commercial Manager or similar
- Ability to analyse complex tender documentation & pricing schedules
- Knowledge of the Electricity Transmission industry would be ideal!
- Relationship building & influencing
- Full UK driving licence - travel across sites & regional offices is a requirement
What’s in it for you?
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Employee assistance programme / Life assurance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from or car allowance
- Private health care and health care cash plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Overtime
Start: ASAP
Duration: Permanent Position
Rate: £90-£95,000 Per Annum, DOE