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Full-time
Flexible Working, Personal Development Opportunities, Professional Development Opportunities
Posted 1d ago
Apply by Jul 3
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Programme Commercial Director is responsible for implementing the HS2 commercial strategy, ensuring robust governance, and managing complex contracts to deliver value. The role involves leading a high-performing commercial team and managing risks and partnerships across the supply chain and regulatory bodies.
Requirements
Candidates must have extensive experience leading large commercial teams for major infrastructure projects, specifically within regulated railway or construction environments. Expert capability in managing high-value negotiations and mitigating contractual risks in safety-critical environments is required.
Full job description
Locations: Birmingham or London
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
The Programme Commercial Director will implement HS2 commercial strategy and capability, ensuring robust commercial governance and value delivery. The job holder will implement compliance and effective risk management processes in commercial activities within HS2 Ltd, the HS2 Programme and its Supply Chain. This role will mitigate commercial delivery risks, fostering collaborative partnerships across projects with suppliers and regulatory bodies that are involved with HS2. In addition, this role will develop and implement commercial management plans to deliver the outcomes and benefits HS2 has committed to for Phase 1. The Programme Commercial Director will champion best practices in commercial management and delivery, ensuring adherence to industry standards and UK employment legislation.
About the Role
Implement the HS2 commercial strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
Lead the negotiation, administration, and management of complex contracts (e.g., NEC3 forms of contract) with clients, subcontractors, and suppliers, ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, and optimal commercial outcomes.
Identify, assess, and manage commercial risks and opportunities across the delivery programme lifecycle, developing robust mitigation strategies in line with HS2 programme safety requirements.
Cultivate and maintain strong commercial relationships with key delivery stakeholders i.e. joint venture partners, and supply chain members, fostering collaboration and effective dispute resolution.
Drive commercial excellence in supply chain contract management, ensuring robust contract terms and performance monitoring to support HS2 programme delivery.
Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing commercial team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, professional development, and adherence to best commercial practices.
Establish and maintain a consistent approach to contract management and commercial assurance, reporting and governance across the HS2 programme.
Provide accurate and timely commercial reporting, analysis, and insights to the Executive Team, enabling informed decision-making and strategic adjustments for railway programmes.
Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
About You
Skills:
Ability to lead a large, multi-located commercial team in a project-based environment.
Expert capability in identifying, assessing, quantifying, mitigating, and managing delivery commercial and contractual risks inherent in major construction projects, particularly within a regulated railway environment.
Ability to maximise commercial value and cost in complex contracts covering multiple assets and/or geographies
Ability to evaluate commercial opportunities and risks
Ability to innovate and adopt new approaches, tools and technology to deliver required benefits and intended outcomes
Knowledge:
Knowledge of commercial management practices and approaches
Knowledge of commercial lifecycle and whole-life cost management
Knowledge of supply chain engagement and management
Comprehensive knowledge of commercial best practices, governance frameworks, and assurance processes applicable to multi-billion-pound infrastructure programmes, including value engineering and whole-life costing.
Type of Experience:
Experience of leading and developing a large Commercial team for complex, major operations in the UK, Europe or globally – including capability development
Experience of leading high value Commercial negotiations in a major infrastructure project or programme.
Demonstrable experience in proactively managing commercial risks and identifying opportunities within highly regulated and safety-critical environments, such as the UK railway.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
HS2 is critical for the UK’s low-carbon transport future, providing rail capacity, and helping rebalance the economy.
Industry
Truck Transportation
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Founded
2009
Headquarters
Birmingham, West Midlands
LinkedIn followers
236,729
HS2 is the UK’s flagship transport levelling-up project. It is the biggest rail investment ever made in the North of England and is Europe’s largest infrastructure project.
You can learn more about the company, what we do and follow us at the following social media sites and channels:
Visit our corporate website: www.hs2.org.uk
Visit our jobs page: careers.hs2.org.uk/jobs/
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/HS2ltd
Social media policy: www.hs2.org.uk/about-us/our-policies-and-procedures/
Offices: Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, West Midlands B4 6GA, GB · 1 Eversholt Street, The Podium, London, England NW1 2DN, GB
InfrastructureRailSupply chainTransportationBuilding Information Managementand ApprenticeshipInternet
HS2 is critical for the UK’s low-carbon transport future, providing rail capacity, and helping rebalance the economy.
Industry
Truck Transportation
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Founded
2009
Headquarters
Birmingham, West Midlands
LinkedIn followers
236,729
HS2 is the UK’s flagship transport levelling-up project. It is the biggest rail investment ever made in the North of England and is Europe’s largest infrastructure project.
You can learn more about the company, what we do and follow us at the following social media sites and channels:
Visit our corporate website: www.hs2.org.uk
Visit our jobs page: careers.hs2.org.uk/jobs/
Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/HS2ltd
Social media policy: www.hs2.org.uk/about-us/our-policies-and-procedures/
Offices: Two Snowhill, Snow Hill Queensway, Birmingham, West Midlands B4 6GA, GB · 1 Eversholt Street, The Podium, London, England NW1 2DN, GB
InfrastructureRailSupply chainTransportationBuilding Information Managementand ApprenticeshipInternet