Commercial Lead, Operations Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager

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This Commercial Lead will report to the Regional Commercial Manager and will work on the Emergency System Restoration (ESR) programme being delivered from our Crawley office. You will be a Permanent employee.

You will attract a salary of £94,906 plus car and a bonus of 3%. This role can also offer blended working after probationary period (6 months) - 3 days in the office and 2 remote.

Close Date : 11/02/2026

We also provide the following additional benefits

• Reservist Leave – Additional 18 days full pay and 22 unpaid
• Personal Pension Plan – Personal contribution rates of 4% or 5% (UK Power Networks will make a corresponding contribution of 8% or 10%)
• Tenancy Loan Deposit Scheme, Season Ticket Loan
• Tax efficient benefits:
  Cycle to Work, Home & Tech, and Green Car Leasing Schemes
• Occupational Health support
• Switched On – scheme providing discount on hundreds of retailers' products
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme

Should you not have the full range of essential skills, qualifications and competencies listed below, there may be an opportunity for further training to equip you. If you do not have all relevant competencies for the core grade, it will be appropriate to appoint at a lower grade until you have developed the required competencies.

To assist the Commercial Manager and the wider commercial team in providing competent and professional commercial support to the Southern Region Commercial Manager, on the Emergency System Restoration (ESR) programme being delivered from our Crawley office.

Whilst based in Crawley the successful applicant will be working on schemes in all three UKPN areas (SPN, EPN and LPN).

The Commercial Lead will be required to provide a supporting role during initial procurement before taking ownership for delivery through to final account.

To manage commercial matters for those contracts and projects with regards to contract set-up, management, pricing, service delivery, scope change and dispute resolution to ensure contract requirements are compliant with standards and co-ordinated to maximise profit delivery.

To proactively support a wider project team, variously comprising Programme Managers;
Project Managers;
Designers; P6 Planners;
Consents Surveyors and Administrators.

• To be commercial lead on a portfolio of client construction projects.
• To comply with all UKPN guidelines, business objectives and procedures, identifying and reporting areas of non-conformance to the Regional Commercial Manager and wider commercial management team.
• Ensure that the project delivery team have acted in accordance with the Contract. Responsible for liaising with all external and internal stakeholders to enable the projects to progress without delay, ensuring that all reasonable requests are met in a timely efficient manner, under the guidance of the wider commercial team.
• Assist in the preparation of activity schedules and the presentation of tender documentation, attending interviews and carrying out full tender analysis and comparisons to fixed rates.
• Interface with the Portfolio Manager;
  Programme Managers, Senior Project Managers, Project Managers and P6 Planners to deliver advice and support and to ensure that the projects are managed in accordance with the contract and meeting the required reporting deadlines.
• Manage a programme of current workload, in order that all contracts receive the relevant allocation of resource to manage them commercially.
• To assist the Commercial Manager in providing guidance to junior members of staff,
• Demonstrate belief and understanding to the team and create confidence even when faced with setbacks.
• Make decisions and justify them when challenged.
• Produce quality reports
• Question the decisions and directions of others where necessary.
• Assess contractor applications and EWN's and CE's, making recommendations to, raising payment certificates for and preparing general correspondence on behalf of the Project Managers to ensure that only legitimate monies are certified.
• Collaborate with the Project Managers to review and update the risk registers and add in new risks arising from…