Head of Commercial - Major Projects
Head of Commercial - Major Projects
Apply locations Worthing time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday time left to apply End Date: April 20, 2025 (8 days left to apply) job requisition id JR5550
Closing Date: 2025-04-30
Job Title: Head of Commercial (Major Projects)
Location: Hybrid working between office in Durrington, Worthing 2 days pw and working from home.
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday
Salary: Competitive salary on offer commensurate to experience + £500 monthly car allowance.
Job Overview
I am excited to be recruiting for a Head of Commercial to join the newly created SLT, reporting into the Major Projects Director.
The Head of Commercial (Major Projects) will provide leadership and strategic input across all the schemes within the major project portfolio. Bringing commercial awareness, analytical and creative thinking, partnered with a strategic direction to the team.
The role will provide commercial acumen and key experience of externally financed market delivery and engagement such as Private Finance Initiative and Public-Private partnership schemes to ensure that Southern Waters Direct Procurement for Customers is successful.
This is a really exciting opportunity to get involved in some of Southern Water’s most high-profile projects such as the T2ST and SESRO ventures!
About You
We are keen to hear from applicants who have the proven ability to establish and negotiate commercial contractual elements including the PFI style agreements, across the full lifecycle, considering benchmarking, risk analysis and contract compliance.
Experience in PPP would be advantageous, as would relevant experience of commercial negotiation and successful financial close of similar multi £100mn contracts within a regulated sector.
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our office in Durrington (Worthing) and home.
We are offering a competitive salary depending on skills and experience as well as a £500 monthly car allowance, bonus up to 20%, single cover PMI and other benefits including:
* Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
* Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
* Health benefits through a Cash Plan
* Two paid community volunteering days a year
* 25 days annual holiday
* Occupational health service
* Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Interested in the role?
We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications so if you are interested in the position please do send your application over today to ensure consideration.
Every Body Welcome
We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to facilitate your participation in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and experience.
We succeed together
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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