Commercial Manager - Contractual Change

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Company Description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You'll join your colleagues in our main offices at least 2 days a week.

As the UK's largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we're busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Commercial Manager - Contractual Change

You will lead the Commercial and Contracts team, managing contractual changes and driving standardisation of best practices across a multi-billion construction portfolio. You will collaborate cross-functionally to assess, implement, and control commercial changes while ensuring efficiency, continuous improvement, and compliance with business requirements.

You'll receive a competitive salary, a car allowance, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Lead and implement a control system for all contractual changes related to fibre build projects, aligning with business requirements.
• Ensure data accuracy and reporting of ongoing and completed contractual changes, securing sign-off from relevant departments.
• Brief Pre-Contracts on agreed changes to ensure compliance in future contracts.
• Provide guidance to teams and contractors on understanding, implementing, and tracking contractual changes.
• Deliver executive briefings and impact assessments of all contractual changes, advising on budgets, risks, and opportunities.
• Drive process improvements, best practices, and standardisation across contracting and commercial management.

What you'll bring to the role

You'll have an extensive background in contract/commercial management or quantity surveying, with particular experience in advising and executing contract change or contract drafting. You'll also have:

• Experience managing key stakeholders across all business functions, collaborating effectively across different teams
• Experience in dispute resolution and negotiation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work with large and complex data sets
• Familiarity with change management processes and practises

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We're a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We're endorsed by WORK180 and we're a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we're a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we're wholly committed to ensuring that our people's voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you'd like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.

What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

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Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!